𝓰Jeremy Clarkson and Adrian Newey were at school together before their careers ma🦂de them four-wheel legends.

Now the𝔉 former Top Gear TV presenter has weighed in on the furore around Newey's next career move.

Newey will quit Red Bull, where he has worked for 19 years and overseen two 🍸championship-winning eras and designed multiple title-winning cars, in early-2025.

Ferrari are considered his likeliest destinꦡation but his old mate reckons he could be plotting something else.

"Ever since he announced he would be leaving his job as chief engineer at Red Bull Racing, everyone has been wondering which team Adrian Newey might join," Clarkson wrot🦂e for .

"It’s a big question. It was a Newey-designed car that took Nig🎀el Mansell to the world championship in 199🍃2 and Alain Prost in 1993.

"In the late Nineties, McLaren dominated using Newey’s cars, so it was obvious wh🃏en he switched to Red Bull in 2006 what would happen next. And indeed it did.

"But there’s another po꧑ssibility. Late🎶 last year, Newey started work on a new sailing boat.

"And as he’s now 65 years old, who knows?

"He might just decide to bugger off and spe♑nd the autumn 💎of his years sailing round the world on that."

It is no secret that Newey has 🗹passions outside of Formula 1.

He is currently building a yacht which he hopes will sail aro♋und the world.

And, for the rest of this year, will reꦺmain involved in the RB17 hypercar project.

The idea that Newey could simply sail off into the distance rather than embark on designing the new era of F1 cars under the ไ2026 regulations will be a hammer blow to prospective new employers who will see him as the key to their championship hopes.