Left-field F1 switch suggested for Adrian Newey amid links to Red Bull’s rivals
Damon Hill has su💮ggested Adrian Newey may be tempted to return to a former F1 team.
Damon Hill has suggested that legendary F1 car designer Adrian Ne꧟w﷽ey could rejoin McLaren if he decides to leave Red Bull.
Newey’s future has been the subject of speculation in recent weeks, with Rไed Bull’s chief technical officer🅘 linked with several of their rivals, including Ferrari.
Last month it was reported that Aston Martin had approached the 65-year-old with🎶 a “big-money” contract offer to try and tempt 🥀him away from Red Bull.
Newey has now been tipped to potentially return toꦉ McLaren, where he worked from 1997 until joining Red Bull in 2005.
“I just wonder, 𓃲what would happen if Adrian [Newey] w🍎as looking around and was thinking about McLaren as a team to go to,” 1996 world champion Hill said on Sky Sports F1.
“They’ve alreaꦿdy shown that they’re going ꦇin the right direction, they’re definitely a team on the make.”
Newey won both world championships with McLaren with the first car he designed for the British squad in 1998, whi🦋le its predecessor took Mika Hakkinen to the world championship in 1999.
McLaren have enjoyed an impressive start to the season with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lando Norris turning in a brilliant drive to finish second to 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Max Verstappen in the Chinese Grand Prix and spl🗹it the Red Bull drivers.
The Woking-based outfit are third in the constructors’ championship🏅 and 55 points behind Ferrari.
It comes after they spent much of t𒊎he second half of 2023 as Red 🎃Bull’s nearest challengers.
But Newey’s success at Red Bull is showing no signs of stopping this year, with the team already well on course to clinch both 🔯world championships for a third co♛nsecutive season.
Speaꦑking about his ongoing🅠 F1 involvement amid the swirling speculation in a recent interview with RacingNews365, Newey said: “I enjoy [it].
“Ever since I was 10 or so,👍 certainly by 12, I wanted🀅 to be a designer – I don’t think I knew the word ‘engineer’ – in motor racing, and ideally, Formula 1.
“That’ꦰs what I [put] all my teenage years towards. I managed to get that first job in motor raci♒ng when I graduated.
“I’ve hugely e๊njoyed it, and I continue to enjoy it.
“So I think as long as I continue to enjoy it and the te🔜am wants me then I’ll continue to do it for the moment and then we’ll have to see in the future.
“I don’t tend to plan too far forward.”
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