Aston Martin technical director Adrian Newey has offered a prediction on how the F1 pecking order may shape up next year.<\/p>\n
A significant rule change is set to come into play with major alterations being made to both the power unit and chassis regulations.<\/p>\n
With so many different interpretations of the rulebook in play, it creates the potential for one team to build an advantage over the rest of the pack.<\/p>\n
While a midfield team may have an opportunity to make a leap up the order, Newey is expecting the usual front-runners to maintain their position in 2026.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt’s difficult to judge because of this big regulation change, everybody has a bit of a reset,\u201d Newey told the James Allen on F1 podcast.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cChances are that the top teams this year will be the top teams next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBut occasionally there’s a bit of disruption. It happened last time there was a big regulation change in 2009, when Ferrari and McLaren, who are the big ones in 2008, floundered.<\/p>\n
\u201cBrawn and Red Bull came forward. So it does happen, but by and large, the same teams kind of teams tend to keep on at the top.\u201d<\/p>\n
Newey linked up with Aston Martin in March earlier this year following his departure from Red Bull, where he worked for 20 years and built title-winning cars for Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen.<\/p>\n
Despite his vast F1 experience with major regulation changes, Newey admitted he has no knowledge as to how Aston Martin is shaping up for next year.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou ask, how’s it going? The honest truth is, I have got no idea.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cBecause of this reset, you don’t know whether you’re doing good, bad or indifferent relative to the opposition, you have no knowledge of what they’re doing.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Martin technical director Adrian Newey has offered a prediction on how the F1 pecking order may shape…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,827,817,830,828,831,829,826,813,816,823,825,824,822,85],"class_list":["post-255939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motorsport","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=255939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}