E🅠ddie Jordan has spoken out about his surprise role as Adrian Neweyไ’s manager.

Newey’s statement to confirm his exit as Red Bull techn🍃ical director included a thankyou to Jordan.

F1 fans were stunned to leꦐarn that the former team owner was ♏still involved in a managerial capacity for the in-demand Newey.

Jordan explained on the Formula For Success podcast: “You have to give some cr🎐edit to Ia🙈n Phillips, who was his team principal in the Leyton House days in the late 80s.

“Tha𓆉t’s ho🐭w far back I go with Adrian. There are some funny stories…

“I was always apprehensive. ꧃Adrian is so super clever that I think ‘should I be in the same room as this guy?’

“He thinks different to me. He looks di🙈fferent to me.

“The o🍌nly thing we have in common is a total and utter love for music.

“Behind that 🅺person is a rock star. Glastonb🍨ury doesn’t happen without him. The Isle of Wight Festival…

“Anytime we’re i🌜n C🐻ape Town, we always wind up in the same places.

“And, we cycle together.

“Over the years he has said ‘Eddie, I am not happy about this, or I love that, or what ♛about this…’

“We go sailing and he says ‘I like this, it’s a nice way of ge♏tting downtime f💧rom motor racing, it’s driving me mad…’

“We know how many championships he’s won for drivers and teams. It totals 25. I dare say, the way Max Verstappen is going, he will add to that this year🌌.

“I must remind everybody that he’s still par𓄧t of the Red Bull team, as we speak. He’s still determined that, when he does leave, it will be a celebration. And so it should be.”

Jordan will, thꦺerefore, play a role in Newey’s next move.

Newey will officially depart Red Bull early next year and could take up a role💎 at a new F1 team, giving him time to look at their 2026 car when the latest regulations kick in.

“He’s currently in England,” Jordan said. “I suggest anyone s🗹hould ring him.

“He has said that when he🔯 grew up his father was a vet, but wanted to be an engineer. He ♛retired at 65 and always regretted it.

“I could be༺ wrong. On one side, he’s 66, he’s got more money than ♉time. He doesn’t need to go down that route.

“I think there’s another season involved with him, in terms of a🐷nother contract. That wil🔴l be him.”

Will Jordan influence Newey?

“My role is very clear,” he said. “I gather the information. I put it on p🅠aper.

“I don’t make my recommendation. He says from time t♍o time: ‘What would you do, if you were me?’

“I say: ‘This is how I see it, but I may be biased towards you going racing, or goin🅺g rallying around the world’.

“We understand each other’s mentalities.

“Amanda has to be a part of that configuration. “She might want to continue racing if it’s important ཧto them as a family.ꦇ Or she might say ‘put the dogs on the boat…’

“I have no idea what will actually happen.”

Jordan paid tribute to Newey’s excellence at designওin🌠g F1 cars.

“I say to him: ‘Adrian, when you have a pencil in your hand and you are looking at a drawing board, there is nobody yꦡour equal’.

“Take the pencil out and you become just the same as the res๊t of us.

“I’m serious, he’s a normal guy.

🌳“But inside that brain there i🤪s something really smart going out.

“He consistently gets it right. He’s a genius when it comes to evaluating♔ how to take advantage of the rules, how to get the bes☂t out of them, how to make sure the team and the car maximises every avenue.”