Adrian Newey, the historic coach with the most champions in history, will leave the Austrian team and move to the Italian team by 2025. He will work with Lewis Hamilton again.
The Formula 1 is experiencing times of strong change, with the most resounding news of the departure of multi-time champion Lewis Hamilton from Mercedes to join Ferrari starting in 2025, and now the Italian team is about to close another bomb: He will take over Adrian Newey, creator of world champion cars, from Red Bull.
The historic designer and current technical chief of the Austrian team has a contract until the end of 2025 but, according to specialized German mediaAutomotive and sportcan end their relationship in December 2024 and start in 2025 with Ferrari. Furthermore, the 65-year-old engineer was seen at Bologna airport a few weeks ago with Italian emissaries and would have answered that “For now I’m with Red Bull, but in the future we’ll see.”
After almost 20 years with the Austrians, RB17 hypercar project will be released and it will begin prepare for regulatory changes coming for 2026. In this way, Newey will fulfill his two pending requests: returned to work with Lewis Hamilton and Ferrari before his retirement, so I will kill two birds with one stone.
Several reasons lead Newey from Red Bull to Ferrari
Newey had planned to move due to the team’s internal situation afterwards the scandal involving team boss Christian Hornerfor some supposedly intimate photo he sent to an employee, who reported to him Ethics Committee of the International Federation of Vehicle (FIA). Although the internal investigation conducted by Red Bull, which ended in Horner is exempt, coach would have left the most champion in history tired of everything that happened. Although, in addition, it has already appeared Horner will also think about leaving Newey in the F1 project for economic reasons.
Source: Tycsports
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