Newey has his work reduce out at Aston Martin. As he identified, the brand new aerodynamics guidelines for 2026 can be launched in the beginning of January, and he doesn’t begin work till March.
“It is going to be a case of getting myself up to the mark as rapidly as attainable, and simply as importantly attending to know everybody right here as rapidly as attainable, and the way we get one of the best out of one another,” he mentioned.
“They [the new rules] are a possibility. Whether or not we will capitalise on that, we simply don’t know. I don’t spend too lengthy fretting on these items. Simply get on and do one of the best we are able to.”
How will he carry out his position as managing technical associate? He joins forces once more with technical director Dan Fallows, who was head of aerodynamics at Crimson Bull below Newey earlier than becoming a member of Aston Martin in early 2022.
Newey, Fallows mentioned on Tuesday, “goes the place he thinks he can add worth”. He attracts the basics of the automotive format on his fabled drafting board, analyses stories, sits in some conferences, and contributes and asks questions and guides the place he feels it’s wanted.
Newey is a superb man, however he isn’t an egotist. He’s comfortable to embrace any engineering concept, no matter its provenance, so long as it makes the automotive sooner.
And simply his mere presence will energise perception within the group.
Fernando Alonso, whose contract lasts till the top of 2026, has waited greater than 20 years to lastly get an opportunity to work with Newey, and has been disadvantaged of no less than two world titles by the Englishman’s genius.
Newey jokingly known as Alonso an “arch-rival” over a few years. Alonso mentioned: “I’d say Adrian was extra an inspiration because of his expertise and vehicles. All of us bought higher as a driver, as engineers; all of us needed to increase the bar because of him, to have the ability to compete.”
If historical past is something to go by, that bar could also be about to be raised once more.
