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Now Newey is at a grand prix for the first time - starting with Thursday media day - so in Monaco, he will have the chance to observe the team’s trackside processes up close.
It is understood Newey will have a place on the pitwall, and a desk in engineering meetings, which means he will be directly plugged into the sessions and engage where appropriate, rather than just be an observer - which team principal Andy Cowell said is an important step.
“He’ll see the way we operate in a race weekend environment, the way we optimise the car we've got, the way we play a different strategy,” said Cowell.
“And so having his experience and insight, looking to see what's going well, what's not so well, just helps with our jobs list of what to work on to become a stronger team.”
Newey’s presence trackside is relevant partly because of how he prefers to work as he has always valued being on-site, observing not only his team’s process with his own eyes but also other team’s cars in person.
However, as his job relates to elevating Aston Martin’s technical work on a broader level - not just contributing his own design work - the way the car is engineered trackside is key to that.
Cowell said that Newey’s “experience, insight and creativity will help absolutely everybody in the team, and working at the track will give him a more complete view now".
