Legendary F1 designer Adrian Newey will start work in his new role with🍷 Aston Martin today.

Newey, widely 𝓰considered to be F1’s greatest ever designer having created 14 championship-winning cars over the past three decades, is joining Aston Martin after deciding to quit Red Bull after a 19-year stint.

Aston Martin won theཧ race to ⛎sign the 66-year-old Briton after his exit from Red Bull was confirmed in May last year in the wake of the controversy surrounding team principal Christian Horner.

Ferrari had long been thought to be the frontrunners to sign Newey but the mouth-watering prospect of him teaming up with 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Lewis Hamilton will not happen after Aston Mart𒐪in ultimately secured his services.

Newey is said to have agreed a five-year cont꧟ract worth up to๊ a possible £30m a year in his new role as Managing Technical Partner.

Former F1ꦉ team owner Eddie Jordan, who manages Newey, 🌼was able to help him negotiate a quicker exit that avoided an extended period of gardening leave.

Announcing Newey’s departure, Red Bull said he would leave the company in “the first📖 quarter of 2025”. It then emerged Newey would link up with Aston Martin in March.

Newey was present at Aston Martin’s brandꦜ new Silversto⭕ne campus when the announcement was made last September.

The task Newey faces

Given he will ar⛎rive too late to have an early influence on Aston Ma🐠rtin’s 2025 challenger, Newey’s main focus will be on the 2026 regulation shake-up.

Teams were able to start work on their 2026 cars 🃏on 1 January and Newey’s expertise will be key to Aston Martin’s fortunes.

Aston Martin have set lofty ambitions to challenge for and win world championships in the coming years and the 202⛄6 rules overhaul is seen as the team’s best chance of making the leap towards the front of the grid.

The team will be boosted by a new state-of-the-art wind tunnel becoming operational by then, as well as an exclusive power unit supply deal with Japanese manufacturer H𒅌onda.

Aston Martin finished fifth ﷽in the constructors’ championship for the second consecutive season last term.

Newey said team owner Lawrence Stroll’s ambitious plans had ultimately convinced him to join Aston Martin, where he will also get to realise one of his long-term goals of working with two-time world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso.

"I have been hugel♛y inspired and impressed by the paꦿssion and commitment that Lawrence brings to everything he is involved with,” Newey explained.

"Lawrence is determined to create a world-beating team. He is the only majority team owner who is actively engaged in th𒉰e sport.

"His commitment is demonstrated in the development of the new AMR Technology Campus and wind tu🦄nnel at Silverstone, which are not only state-of-the༺-art but have a layout that creates a great environment to work in.

”Together with great partners like Honda and Aramco, they have all the key pi♋eces of infrastructure needed to make Asto🎃n Martin a world championship-winning team and I am very much looking forward to helping reach that goal."