Adrian Newey will depart his ♏current emplꦇoyers next year, and could start work with a new team in time to have a major impact on their 2026 car.

The Red Bull chief technical officer is arguably the most crucial individual signing in F1 to💜day yet, now aged 65,ܫ he’s in no rush to decide.

“Everything ♊else is a bon🍃us, really,” Newey said this week without confirming his intentions.

What do we know about Newey’s options?

Ferrari

Ferrari have fail❀ed to sign Newey on three previous occasions, in the 80s, then the 90s, and most recently in 2014.

Newey described the offer he rejected a decade ago: “The promise was of an almost film-star lifestyle and the most ridiculously large financial offer, well over double the already generous salary I was ꦯreceiving at Red Bull.”

Doubts that Newey wants to live in Italy remain to this day. Whether he would need to uproot his life a♎nd go to Maranello permanently is uncertain.

Newey delayed his travel to the F1 Miami Grand Prix in May to meet Fe꧑rrari team principal Fred Vasseur in London, Gazzetta reported.

Vasseur has siဣnce played down his team’s desperation for Newey, sayi༒ng: “It’s not about big names. We need to pay attention on details, to focus on this.”

But one big name guaranteed to arrive at Ferrari in 2025 is168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton.

Hamilton is famously one of three drivers that Newey has named as regrets that he has never worked with (the others are 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Michael Schumacher and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso).

The final opportunity to work with F1’s💝 most successful driver, Hamilton, may be in Newey’s hands now.

But a move to the iconic Itali🎃an team iཧs far from certain.

Ferrari🎐 CEO Benedetto Vigna “baulked at the level of salary” that Newey wants, amid concerns the tech guru “would have too much power”, the  reported this week. Other sources in the same story downp𝓡layed those fears.

The lure of the famous red team is clear.

Last weekend, Newey was behind the wheel of Niki Lauda’s Ferrari at the Goodwood Festival of 🦹Speed.

The opportunity to turn them into F1’s dominant force again - with Hamilton and 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Charles Leclerc at the wheel - of the๊ 2026 regulations era is at 🌄the tip of his fingers.

McLaren

A return to Wokin𓆉g could be on the cards fo♊r Newey.

Newey spent eight years at McLaren between 1997 to 2005 before leaving tꦡo join Red Bull, which were at the time, just a midfield team.

McLaren’s remarkable resurgence unde𝐆r Zak Brown’s le♏adership makes signing Newey more viable than it was 12 months ago.

Not only do Brown and Newey share a close friends🍸hip, having competed together🃏 in the Monaco Classic back in May, the Red Bull guru’s manager, Eddie Jordan, has previously hinted there’s been contact with McLaren.

Jordan let slip during an interview in Monaco: “When we get the next deal from Zak [Brown] or whoever it might be, a proper new bike wil🐽l be part of the contract.”

Remarkably, McLaren’s mosꦦt re꧙cent constructors’ title win was in 1999 - when Newey was at the team.

Aston Martin

Aston Martin remain heavily linked with Newey as they continue to bolster their ever-growing te꧅chnical te꧟am.

They’ve recently added Andy Cowell - Mercedꦯes’ former engine chief - and poached Enrico ꩲCardile from Ferrari.

Newey would be the cherry on the top of the cake ღas Aston Martin look to move from🍃 midfield team to title contender in time for Honda’s arrival in 2026 - when they become an effective works team for the new regulations.

One point that coul♛d play in Aston Martin’s favour is Newey’s 🍸desire to work with Alonso.

He’s been quoted as saying to : “There are some d🔯rivers, like Lewis Hamilton and Fernando Alonso, who I would have loved to work with, but so far it has𓆏 not been the right place or time in terms of us coming together.”

claimed Newey had😼 a private tour of Aston Martin's Silverstone factory with talks taking place with owner Lawrence Stroll.

Mercedes

Even though they're an outsider in the race to sign Newey, you can’tꩵ rule out Mercedes.

While mo🃏re recently Mercedes are on an upwards trajectory in terms of car development, the signing of Newey could help them guarantee a return t🐼o championship-contention in the future.

Adding Newey to y𓆉our organisation could also be another pull factor in Mercedes’ pursuit of Max Verstappen.

A reunion of Verstappen with Newey, then adding Helmut Marko to the mix as a Lauda-✤esque consultant - it seems plausible.

However, James Allison is currently Mercedes’ technic𓃲al director having returned to the fold last year in place of Mike Elliott.

And given their return to form, Toto Wo🍎lff might stay loyal to his current technical team as they emerge as a major threat to Red Bull and McLaren on a regular basis in 2024.

Wolff admitted that no F1 team could "disc♌ount" Newey but made clear Mercede💙s aren't "waiting for a messiah". 

“No team can discount Adrian," he told 𝔍Sky. “But he needs to fit into the organisation and he needs to want it. So, I think, you’ve got to always look at opportunities.

“It’s not like, today, we are waiting for a messiah𝕴.”

Williams

Newey’s former team Wil꧋liams are reportedly in the running for his signature too.

The arrival of Ja🍷mes Vowles from 🔯Mercedes as their team principal, and the renewal of star driver Alex Albon’s contract, have made an impact inside the F1 paddock.

Vowles said about his pursuit of Newey in May: "I respectꦏ him enormously. He has history at Williams.

“And I fi🧸rst and foremost wanted to make sure I had a conversation with him to say this is the place to be.

“We have to be straigh🔯tforward. I want to make sure we're talking to him. I want to make sure our name is in the hat.

“There are so🔯me big players out there doing a lot of big number movements."

Newey worked for Williams between 1991 and 1996. There is little doubt tജhat a return now would be a romantic option.

Although not a frontrunner anymore, Williams might be reliant on N๊ewey fancying the c💯hallenge of turning around a former powerhouse and restoring past glories. 

Would Newey do that rather than join a bigger team? He famously does 🤪not ch🐼ase the limelight…