Newey to remain fully focused on 2026 Aston Martin F1 car despite 2025 struggles

Aston Martin’s new managing technical companion, Adrian Newey, has hit the bottom working, however he’s laser-focused on the 2026 automobile regardless of the crew’s present on-track struggles, based on crew boss Andy Cowell.

“100% of Adrian’s designing time is targeted on 2026,” Cowell instructed reporters in Jeddah on Thursday, with new Method 1 laws coming up subsequent yr.

“He joined in March, so there was a interval of him getting up to the mark with the laws, up to the mark with the idea work that we have been doing within the previous couple of months, and there are some robust deadlines to fulfill for releasing monocoque particulars and transmission particulars.

“So getting a automobile prepared for [the test in January] requires barely earlier resolution factors, and clearly all the things’s new, there’s zero carryover.

“There’s a number of work there and Adrian’s simply been centered on that.”

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When requested whether or not Newey had offered any perception into potential design flaws on the 2025 automobile, Cowell stated he had solely provided broad suggestions.

“[His thoughts] are centered largely on the instruments that we’re utilizing moderately than any direct efficiency facets of the 25 automobile,” he defined.

“However there may be worth in Adrian understanding the instruments that we have, the constancy of these instruments, and the precision with which they predict what is going on to occur on the racetrack.”

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The longtime Pink Bull design chief has been impressed by Aston Martin’s state-of-the-art services, together with their brand-new wind tunnel.

“Adrian’s been massively complimentary in regards to the campus and has been optimistic in regards to the tunnel that we have and the best way that all the things’s been arrange,” Cowell stated.

“He’s, in fact, pushing for us to enhance the best way we function within the tunnel… He’s acquired ideas on methods to enhance just about all the things, and that is the beauty of Adrian’s aggressive drive.”