Adrian Newꦿey has admitted that💮 the RB20 has "one feature" that he isn't content with, which might be changed this season.

Red Bull's chief technical officer's last significant contribution to their F1 project could be to tweak a pa🐭rt of their dominant car.

Newey oversaw Sebastian V🐓ettel’s era that yielded four consecutive driver🙈s’ titles at Red Bull. He now designs the cars which Max Verstappen is dominating with.

Regarded as the best F1🦩 car designer, 💎Newey is now on the radar of Ferrari and Aston Martin in particular.

He was asked about this season’s RB20: “Is there any room for improvement? Do you search fo🍸r perfection? Where are t🅺he chinks in the armour?”

Newe🧜y responded: “There is always room for improvement. This car is the third evolution of the 2022 car under this rule-set.

“We’v꧙e got one more year, next year, until the huge change in 2026.

“We are always searching for little bits 🦹and pieces. The fundameꩲntal architecture of the car stays the same.

“For instance, there is one feature on the car which I’m not terribly hap🥀py with, this year.

“It’s something which will either change this year or💛 will be altered next year.”

Newey said about his legendary career and h🧜is Red Bull exit: “I have been doing the job that I’ve always to, since a kid. That’s my passion.

“I enjoy working with the drivers, the engineers, the team, the me💧chanics. That’s what gets me up and motivates me.

“The other side ౠof it? It’s something that, I guess, comes as part of the package but it’s not something I think about.

“It has been a bit of a shock and a surprise.”

He wasꦑ asked: “The other stuff being an unwelcome distraction?”

Newey replied: “No, not an unwelcome distraction. I don’t know how to put it. Probably🧸 a surprise, more than anything.

“I never think about that.

“Statistics, a𒅌nd all that, isn’t something that drives me.

“It’s what I do. I just normally end up under the rad♛ar, 👍and I’m happy with that.”

Adrian Newey: 2026 regulations "strange"

Newey delivered an intriguing description of the 2026 F1 regulations - which he is not yet confirmed to be a part of𝓀.

The exit of Red Bull’s chief technical oꦐfficer, and the brains behind their dominant F1 cars, has got rivals det𝔉ermined to lure him into their factories.

Newey will leave Red Bull formally in early-2025 and can repo🦹rtedly take another job immediately, giving him time to oversee the direction of a new team’s first car under the revised 2026 hybrid rule-set.

Newey was asked if the 2026 regulations are “compellinওg” enough for him to 𝕴commit to another project.

“I must admit that, when the 2022 regulations were announced i😼n 2020, my first reaction was that they were restrictive,” he told Sky Sports.

“That’s always a sham🍸e. The more regulation restrictive we have, the more it stifles creativity.

“But, as it turns out, therꦐe is quite a lot of flexibility.

“We saw th♍at at the start of 2022. There were a lot of different shapes.

“The 2026 regulations? At the moment, they look like a slightly strange set o👍f regulations.

“To then write th﷽em off? And say they won’t be good? It’s way too premature.

“There comes a point, always, as 🌜a designer that you first look at what they might be. You have an opinion that they might be good or bad.

“But you have to ignore that, and ge😼t on with the𒐪 challenge of it.

“I’m sure 2026 will be anothꦉer big challenge. Whether I am a part of it? I rea😼lly don’t know.

“To those involved, it will be a big challenge.”