{"id":309153,"date":"2025-11-27T00:21:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:21:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309153\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T00:21:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T00:21:12","slug":"newey-to-become-aston-martins-team-principal-next-season-in-f1-winnipeg-free-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/309153\/","title":{"rendered":"Newey to become Aston Martin\u2019s team principal next season in F1 \u2013 Winnipeg Free Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON (AP) \u2014 Adrian Newey will become Aston Martin\u2019s team principal next season as part of the Formula 1 team\u2019s restructuring.<\/p>\n<p>Newey committed his long-term future to Aston Martin in September 2024 after his departure from Red Bull sparked a bidding war for his services. He\u2019s widely considered the greatest technical mastermind of his generation.<\/p>\n<p>Pressure has built on Andy Cowell, the current team principal and CEO, amid a disappointing season and reported disagreements with Newey, whose current role is managing technical partner.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/195372643147f5640b243656e1d84bc7513e39df5a90bd5ae96ee84ef568359f.jpg\" data-pswp- data-pswp-width=\"1024\" data-pswp-height=\"682\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/195372643147f5640b243656e1d84bc7513e39df5a90bd5ae96ee84ef568359f.jpg\" alt=\"FILE - Then-Red Bull technical director Adrian Newey arrives ahead the third free practice, at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo\/Luca Bruno, file)\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFILE &#8211; Then-Red Bull technical director Adrian Newey arrives ahead the third free practice, at the Monaco racetrack, in Monaco, May 25, 2024. (AP Photo\/Luca Bruno, file)<\/p>\n<p>After speculation linking former Red Bull team principal Christian Horner with the team resurfaced, Aston Martin announced on Wednesday that the 66-year-old Newey will step up to take charge of trackside operations from 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Cowell will take on a new role as chief strategy officer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOver the last nine months, I have seen great individual talent within our team,\u201d Newey said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m looking forward to taking on this additional role as we put ourselves in the best possible position to compete in 2026, where we will face an entirely new position with Aston Martin now a works team combined with the considerable challenge faced by the new regulations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\tWinnipeg Free Press | Newsletter\n\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tThe Warm-Up<\/p>\n<p class=\"frequency\">Winnipeg Jets Game Days<\/p>\n<p>On Winnipeg Jets game days, hockey writers Mike McIntyre and Ken Wiebe send news, notes and quotes from the morning skate, as well as injury updates and lineup decisions. Arrives a few hours prior to puck drop.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<a class=\"email-subscribe-link button the-warmup inline-block-logged-in\">Sign up for The Warm-Up<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/theWarm-up-tile.jpg\" alt=\"Sign up for The Warm-Up\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Newey has played a significant role in 13 drivers\u2019 world championships and a dozen constructors\u2019 titles with three different teams but has never previously held the role of team principal.<\/p>\n<p>He ended a near two-decade association with Red Bull before committing to Aston Martin, where he is also a shareholder.<\/p>\n<p>Aston Martin is currently eighth in the constructors\u2019 standings with two races to go.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP auto racing: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/auto-racing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON (AP) \u2014 Adrian Newey will become Aston Martin\u2019s team principal next season as part of the Formula&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309154,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[441],"tags":[49,48,578,576,577,82],"class_list":["post-309153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309154"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}