Is this another nothing burger?
Note the word "official" in there. So written notice not yet served, perhaps, but enough people told in the team that he's going to leave for it to leak out.
His contractual situation is that he has contracted at Red Bull Racing until the end of 2025 and as I understand it would have to serve another year of gardening leave where Red Bull to holds him to the full extent of his contract which would mean he would not be able to work work for another Formula 1 team until 2027."
"Red Bull are also unaware as I understand it of any formal approach from another Formula 1 team to Adrian Newey and the one or two individuals I've spoken to close to Newey have expressed to me that if he is seriously considering leaving, he has not made up his mind what future direction his career should take."
Red Bull PR most shameless? How can they say this when even Benson is reporting?organic wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 18:57This part gives me some shred of cope
Craig Slater
His contractual situation is that he has contracted at Red Bull Racing until the end of 2025 and as I understand it would have to serve another year of gardening leave where Red Bull to holds him to the full extent of his contract which would mean he would not be able to work work for another Formula 1 team until 2027."
"Red Bull are also unaware as I understand it of any formal approach from another Formula 1 team to Adrian Newey and the one or two individuals I've spoken to close to Newey have expressed to me that if he is seriously considering leaving, he has not made up his mind what future direction his career should take."
This part is absolutly fake since Newey talked with Giorgio Piola about a "very different car that you must see" already in 2023.Dunlay wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 18:11
Horner said last year that Newey spent only 50 percent of the time working on the car. Sources around the top team previously stated that Newey did not actually see this season's car, the RB20, for the first time until the presentation in Milton Keynes in February.
https://t.co/kgXfIafk9r
Was it different though? Someone in his capacity, even if he spent 50% time, would know the overall design of 2024. Isn't it?AtlasZX wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 19:14This part is absolutly fake since Newey talked with Giorgio Piola about a "very different car that you must see" already in 2023.Dunlay wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 18:11
Horner said last year that Newey spent only 50 percent of the time working on the car. Sources around the top team previously stated that Newey did not actually see this season's car, the RB20, for the first time until the presentation in Milton Keynes in February.
https://t.co/kgXfIafk9r
It's fake that he didn't see the car before the presentation, he was very excited about the RB20 solutions at least since Brazil 2023.
This is what I was thinking about. A calibre of Newey has to have a long gardening leave. If he starts to work for an other team in 2027, he can have a meaningful effect on the 2028 car. They will be well into the new regulations by then. He could also not work on the new regulations for Red Bull in 2025. So he would miss his probably last chance to work on a car during a big regulation change (which is the most exciting part - by his words).organic wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 18:57This part gives me some shred of cope
Craig Slater
His contractual situation is that he has contracted at Red Bull Racing until the end of 2025 and as I understand it would have to serve another year of gardening leave where Red Bull to holds him to the full extent of his contract which would mean he would not be able to work work for another Formula 1 team until 2027."
"Red Bull are also unaware as I understand it of any formal approach from another Formula 1 team to Adrian Newey and the one or two individuals I've spoken to close to Newey have expressed to me that if he is seriously considering leaving, he has not made up his mind what future direction his career should take."
It really depends on what's in Newey's contract in terms of the gardening leave. If he's out for a year? Nothing to stop him watching and observing F1 from a distance, figuring things out by himself.Paa wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 19:41This is what I was thinking about. A calibre of Newey has to have a long gardening leave. If he starts to work for an other team in 2027, he can have a meaningful effect on the 2028 car. They will be well into the new regulations by then. He could also not work on the new regulations for Red Bull in 2025. So he would miss his probably last chance to work on a car during a big regulation change (which is the most exciting part - by his words).organic wrote: ↑25 Apr 2024, 18:57This part gives me some shred of cope
Craig Slater
His contractual situation is that he has contracted at Red Bull Racing until the end of 2025 and as I understand it would have to serve another year of gardening leave where Red Bull to holds him to the full extent of his contract which would mean he would not be able to work work for another Formula 1 team until 2027."
"Red Bull are also unaware as I understand it of any formal approach from another Formula 1 team to Adrian Newey and the one or two individuals I've spoken to close to Newey have expressed to me that if he is seriously considering leaving, he has not made up his mind what future direction his career should take."
If he left to an other team he should have moved either earlier or later, but this would be really bad timing.
It is not impossible that if he leaves he will just retire from autosport and go designing sailing boats or something.