Adrian Newey completes slick overtake - but later aquaplanes - at Goodwood
Adrian Newey was behind the wheel in very wet coܫnditions
Adrian Newey distracted himself from speculation about his future by return𓆏ing to the race track this weekend.
Newey was driving at the 2024 Goodwood Revival where he showed off some of his racecraft in 🐠terribl𝓀e conditions.
Driving a Ford GT40, he completed a perfect over📖take and showed real speed down the straight.
A smooth overtake from Adrian Newey in the Ford GT40. He just had that bit of extra oom🌞ph down﷽ the straight.
— Goodwood FOS (@fosgoodwood)
But, later, the♏ wet conditions caused Newey to aquaplane into the gravel trap.
Adrian Newey could barely do anything as his Ford GT40 aqua🧸planes into the gravel trap atꦐ
— Goodwood FOS (@fosgoodwood)
He was competing in two races, the Whitsun Trophy (in a 𝔍Ford GT40) and the Royal Automobile Club TT Celebration (driving a 1963 Jaguar E-type l⛦ightweight).
Ne🎀wey’s skills behind the wheel will soon be overshadowed by his ⛦genius at designing F1 cars.
His future is set to be r🔥esolved in the coming days.
Newey will be unveiled at 🐻Aston Martin this week, at th༒e team’s Silverstone HQ, the BBC report.
The outgoing Red Bull chiཧef technicalℱ officer has selected Aston Martin as his new F1 project, rather than Ferrari, Williams or Alpine.
H꧋ဣis signature is a hugely significant moment for the next era of Formula 1.
James was a sports jꦇournalist at Sky Sports for a decade covering everything from American sports, to football, to F1.
