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The great English engineer, called the ‘Einstein’ of Formula 1, has designed many championship-winning racing cars, which were driven by Mansell, Prost, Villeneuve, Hakkinen, Vettel and Verstappen
The most successful designer in the history of Formula 1, the only one who won titles with three different teams (Williams, McLaren and Red Bull), decided to turn a new leaf in his career last summer.
After 19 seasons and 8 world titles with Red Bull, Adrian Newey packed his bags and decided to accept Aston Martin’s invitation. Lawrence Stroll had managed to win over the 67-year-old English engineer with his ambitious winning vision and the feasibility of his business plans, combined with top technical partners such as Honda and Aramco as well as the freshly inaugurated state-of-the-art headquarters, located not far from the legendary Silverstone, which is equipped with a futuristic wind tunnel.
The designer, whose innovations have very often changed the balance of power among the teams in the last 30 years or so and who has caused a small revolution in the way that engineers, drivers and even ordinary F1 fans think about the races today, took up his new post in early March 2025. However, his innate ability to understand the vagaries of physics and aerodynamics will only have its full impact on the Aston Martin racing car next year – the season when the new technical regulations will start to apply in Formula 1. This is the field in which the British engineer has proved second to none in the way he interprets regulations, radically redefining the balance of compromises.
