Red Bull’s confidence despite the departur🧸e of Adrian Newey may be misplaced, Anthony Davidson says.

The chief technical off🤪icer of F1’s most dominant team will leave his role at the start of next year.

Newey is the best car designer in Formula 1 history and Red Bull’s loss will sur🐠ely become one of their rivals’ gain.

“The team keep saying that Adrian Newey ‘has been around a long time, he’s now more of a consu♎ltant, and we will be okay with his dep🎃arture’,” Davidson said in Miami on Sky Sports.

“I don’t know… I think they might stꦬart missing𒅌 his input.

“Even if it’s just someone to keep the team, keep the flow going. Like a conduc🍃tor does with a꧅n orchestra.

“You can have individuals playiꦦng brilliantly with different instruments but you need someone to bring it all together to make lovely ❀music.

“Tha🐬t’s what I believe Adrian can do in a team, these days.

“That brain where he can oversee the technical side - the mechani🌟cal elements, the suspension, the geometry - and th🌃e downforce, the aero, as well.

“He can bring those departments together, get🍰 them in line.

“I think they might miss him, moving forwards.”

Ferrari are reportedly bes▨t-placed to swoop for Newey’s services.

Hi🧔s exit will come at a precarious time because of the new F1 regulations.

Newey is free to join a rival team next year, giving him time to oversee plans for 2026 when the new hybrid rules com🃏e into effect.

Those🥃 rules could💃 shake up F1 and create a new pecking order, irrespective of where Newey lands.

Bꦇut having the sport’s most respected brain in charge of steering the new direction will b🦂e a major boost to any team that recruits Newey.

He has worked at Red Bull for 19 years꧋ and designed the cars which led to Sebastian Vettel’s four-year championship-winni🐈ng run.

Newey has also create꧟d the machinery driven by Max Verstappen, including this season’s peerless RB20.