{"id":176494,"date":"2025-09-29T02:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176494\/"},"modified":"2025-09-29T02:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T02:03:08","slug":"adrian-newey-effect-under-scrutiny-as-key-aston-martin-requirement-emerges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/176494\/","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Newey effect under scrutiny as key Aston Martin requirement emerges"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Newey cannot turn Aston Martin into F1 title contenders without a \u201ccohesive unit\u201d behind him at Silverstone.<\/p>\n

That is the claim of former F1 driver Karun Chandhok, who says Formula 1 teams cannot afford to rely on a single individual no matter how brilliant they might be.<\/p>\n

Will Adrian Newey turn Aston Martin into winners?<\/p>\n

Newey is currently working on Aston Martin\u2019s first car \u2013 expected to be named the AMR26 \u2013 under the new F1 2026 regulations, having joined the Silverstone-based outfit in the newly created role of managing technical partner in March.<\/p>\n

The 66-year-old stands as the most decorated individual in F1 history with involvement in more than 200 race wins and a combined 26 Drivers\u2019 and Constructors\u2019 titles.<\/p>\n

Newey\u2019s arrival has raised hopes that Aston Martin can make significant strides in F1 2026, which will mark the first season of the team\u2019s highly anticipated technical partnership with Honda, Red Bull\u2019s current engine supplier.<\/p>\n

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Newey is just one of a number of high-profile arrivals at Aston Martin over recent years, with former Mercedes engine guru Andy Cowell appointed to the role of team principal ahead of the F1 2025 season.<\/p>\n

PlanetF1.com revealed in August that Enrico Cardile, the former Ferrari technical director, has started work as Aston Martin\u2019s chief technical officer<\/a> following a battle to acquire his services.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Motivational Speakers Agency<\/a> in association with PlanetF1.com, former HRT and Lotus Racing driver Chandhok claimed that even Newey will not be able to unlock Aston Martin\u2019s potential without an organised structure supporting him.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cA race team is a very complex structure.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got the public-facing personalities such as the drivers and the team principals, occasionally a high-profile technical person such as Adrian Newey, for example, who was at Red Bull.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut really, none of those people can achieve any form of success if the thousand others within the team are not functioning as a cohesive unit.<\/p>\n

\u201cThat\u2019s where there\u2019s a lot of lessons to be passed on, because the pressure to deliver in a Formula 1 environment exceeds any other sport, any other business, frankly any industry.<\/p>\n

\u201cJust think of the timelines in the road car industry, for example.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf a manufacturer decides to build a new car, there\u2019s typically a four-year period by the time they come up with studying the market, understanding what they want to build, where there\u2019s a position in the market for that vehicle, doing their surveys.<\/p>\n

\u201cThen they go to design, then they go to prototyping, then they do test, manufacturing, and eventually into full production and then sales and marketing. It\u2019s a four-year cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn F1, they\u2019ve got to build a new car every year.<\/p>\n

\u201cNot just that, but they\u2019re updating that car nearly every race or every three to four races, so pretty much every couple of months you\u2019re having to re-evaluate your product and come up with better solutions to make it faster, more reliable, more user-friendly.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pressures of time sensitivity in Formula 1 put a different perspective on the way people have to think about life and go about their work.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the other thing is there\u2019s nowhere to hide.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn any other business, there\u2019s opportunities with the way you present your financial results, with the way you present your sales figures or things like that, where there is perhaps some wiggle room in terms of getting to the absolute truth.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the racing world there is no hiding. The results are printed in black and white for everybody to see on a time sheet and the stopwatch never lies.\u201d<\/p>\n

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