Adrian Newey is continuing his push to prepare Aston Martin for the best possible start to life under the new regulations for F1 2026.<\/p>\n
As he continues to learn about the team and its personnel, Newey hinted at a sense of \u201cdeja vu\u201d compared to when he arrived at Red Bull, where \u201ccomplacency\u201d and \u201clack of self-belief\u201d were among the issues he found.<\/p>\n
Adrian Newey on Aston Martin: Red Bull \u2018deja vu\u2019 feeling<\/p>\n
After his departure from Red Bull, F1 design guru Newey took up the newly-created managing technical partner role at Aston Martin<\/a>, as well as becoming a team shareholder.<\/p>\n His focus has been on F1 2026, when sweeping changes to the chassis and engine regulations will arrive. Aston Martin is a team which has invested heavily in areas such as a new factory and windtunnel, all with the goal of tasting title glory. Newey has been involved in 26 world title wins across his legendary career.<\/p>\n Via the James Allen on F1 podcast, Newey looked ahead to F1 2026, and delved into his experiences so far at Aston Martin. Asked to compare it to when he arrived at Red Bull in 2006, Newey hinted at a certain familiarity, one which Aston Martin would need to shed before next season.<\/p>\n Minus a strong 2023 campaign which yielded eight podium results, Aston Martin is a team which has largely competed in Formula 1\u2019s midfield.<\/p>\n \u201cI started in March. Difficult to judge,\u201d said Newey in regards to how it\u2019s going so far at Aston Martin.<\/p>\n \u201cBecause of this big regulation change, then everybody has a bit of a reset.<\/p>\n \u201cChances are that the top teams this year will be the top teams next year. But occasionally, there\u2019s a bit of disruption, let\u2019s say.<\/p>\n \u201cIt happened the last time there was a big regulation change to an extent in 2009, where Ferrari and McLaren, who were the big ones in 2008, floundered, and Brawn and Red Bull came forwards. So it does happen, but by and large, the same teams kind of tend to keep on at the top.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think the main point is that you ask, how\u2019s it going? The honest truth is I\u2019ve got no idea. Because it\u2019s this reset, you don\u2019t know whether you\u2019re doing good, bad or indifferently relative to the opposition, because you have no knowledge of what they\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n \u201cBut I think also on the how\u2019s it going question, I think this is also the culture thing.<\/p>\n \u201cSo Red Bull, when I started, was the ashes of Team Jaguar, that had been under Ford management for many years and had never had any significant success, and so, people had started to lose belief that they could ever win a race.<\/p>\n \u201cOnce you stop believing that you can do that, then, everything goes wrong, because complacency sets in, laziness sets in, lack of self-belief creeps in. If you\u2019re not careful, blame culture can set in as well. And so that was quite a difficult thing to overturn at Red Bull.<\/p>\n \u201cI won\u2019t say too much, but there is a bit of deja vu at the moment.\u201d<\/p>\n More on Adrian Newey from PlanetF1.com<\/p>\n \ud83d\udc49 Adrian Newey and Enrico Cardile: Meet F1\u2019s new double act at Aston Martin<\/a><\/p>\n