Adrian Newey signs new contract, committing F1 future to Red Bull
Adrian Newey has further linked his Formula 1 future to Red Bull Racing. Information from Motorsport.com shows that the coveted designer has signed a new contract with the Milton Keynes team. Red Bull thus manages to keep one of the important links in the current success story on board.
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Ronald Vording
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Jonathan Noble
May 1, 2023 11:15 am
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Adrian Newey's current contract with Red Bull was due to expire at the end of this calendar year. Lately there have been rumors about a departure, but that is not the case. No press release from Red Bull is expected, says Motorsport.com. The team of Max Verstappen and Sergio Perez never makes any statements about how long a contract will last.
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Although Red Bull will not make an official announcement or say anything about the term of the new contract, Christian Horner is extremely pleased with the retention of Newey, who was brought to Red Bull's F1 project in 2006. "Adrian has been a fundamental part of our team and our success almost since the beginning," the team boss told Motorsport.com. "He takes care of an extraordinary amount of things and to be able to draw on his vast experience for all those things is of course great for us. It is also wonderful to see how he works with the young guard. He motivates everyone and is also very interested in what is happening at Powertrains and Advanced Technology, which puts him above the three branches that we have on the Red Bull Campus."
According to Horner, Newey is also very much looking forward to 2026, when Red Bull will drive its own F1 engine for the first time and the chassis and power source can therefore be perfectly matched in theory. "People may be less aware of that, but Adrian is also quite competent when it comes to combustion engines and the like. You can see that he is already very closely involved in that project and sees a lot of potential in it in the longer term."