Fernando Alonso<\/a> is getting his first taste of a Newey-designed F1 car on Friday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\u201cThe nosecone looks wider and fatter than the Mercedes and the McLaren and the Red Bull,\u201d Sky Sports F1 pitlane reporter Kravitz said.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe saw on that previous shot that the sidepod looks a bit bigger than the Red Bull. It\u2019s got a bit of rake in it, which is a Newey trademark.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u2018Question marks\u2019 amid Newey\u2019s brilliance<\/p>\n
Former F1 driver turned pundit Brundle backed Newey\u2019s genius at interpreting regulations but raised \u201cquestion marks\u201d about the wider challenge facing Aston Martin in 2026.<\/p>\n
There is great intrigue around Aston Martin for F1\u2019s rules shake-up given Newey\u2019s involvement and the fact the Silverstone-based squad have secured a works status through their exclusive engine deal with Honda.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdrian, his cars tend to be quite homogeneous in their beautiful, sweeping airflow to them, you often see that,\u201d Brundle commented. \u201cThere doesn\u2019t appear to be as many bits hanging off his cars as you do see some others.<\/p>\n
|\u201dIt\u2019s a really hard undercut on the sidepod and we\u2019ve seen different interpretations on sidepods, front wings across the board, unsurprisingly, with such new regulations.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019ve got to assume Adrian has come up with some good ideas, but does he know enough about the Aston Martin wind tunnel and the digital wind tunnel and will he get correlation? Has he got the right people around him to interpret his brilliance?<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019s a tall order straight out of the box, actually. Adrian was saying to me that Honda are having to play catch up because they were leaving and then they cam back in. So there\u2019s some question marks there.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ll have to wait and see but you just know Adrian will have a vision of how to maximise these regulations. Let\u2019s hope he\u2019s done it and let\u2019s hope that car just flies.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe\u2019s also legendary for not wanting to sign things off, so when the car was late, it didn\u2019t surprise me at all to be honest, because Adrian will push that, and he always has done, to the absolute limit because he wants the maximum time of development on those pieces and understanding.<\/p>\n
\u201cHe doesn\u2019t have that control function of a Christian Horner, or a Patrick Head, or whatever these days. He\u2019s in charge of all of that, but if it absolutely takes off, then as ever, you can say he got it absolutely right. He\u2019s waited until the last minute before having to commit.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe\u2019ll see – we don\u2019t know – but I\u2019m going to assume that car will be pretty handy through the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
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