{"id":3981,"date":"2025-07-16T22:37:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:37:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/3981\/"},"modified":"2025-07-16T22:37:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-16T22:37:11","slug":"why-newey-goes-to-another-office-to-avoid-work-on-2025-aston-martin-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/3981\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Newey “goes to another office” to avoid work on 2025 Aston Martin F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"

Adrian Newey made a rare appearance trackside during the British Grand Prix Formula 1 weekend. Apart from a visit to Monaco in May (and a cameo at the Goodwood Festival of Speed) he has been sequestered within Aston Martin\u2019s \u2018campus\u2019 near Silverstone since he started at the team in March.<\/p>\n

But while Newey was present on the British GP grid with his sketchbook \u2013 despite overseeing 12 constructors\u2019 championship-winning cars since 1992, he has never been too proud to learn from others\u2019 ideas \u2013 he will continue to focus on developing Aston Martin\u2019s response to the 2026 technical reset rather than being drawn into solving problems with the current car.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe\u2019s working, he\u2019s involved,\u201d Fernando Alonso<\/a> told Spanish broadcaster DAZN at Silverstone. \u201cHe\u2019s very motivated. But it\u2019s true that this year\u2019s car doesn\u2019t seem to interest him much.<\/p>\n

\u201cEvery time we ask something about this year or how to improve something, he gets up and goes to another office. So he\u2019s already in 2026 mode\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

Although Alonso was being somewhat flippant, Newey has traditionally resisted becoming involved in development of an inherited project when moving teams. His first Williams<\/a>, the FW14, had more in common aerodynamically with his previous design (the Leyton House CG901) than the FW13 it replaced; at McLaren<\/a> he got straight into conceptual work for the 1998 narrow-track ruleset while still on gardening leave, having as little involvement as possible with the \u201997 car; at Red Bull he almost entirely swerved the wretched RB2.<\/p>\n

\"Fernando <\/p>\n

Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing, Adrian Newey, Managing Technical Partner of Aston Martin F1 Team<\/p>\n

Photo by: Zak Mauger \/ Motorsport Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n

\u201cI spent some time trying to understand the RB2,\u201d he told this author, with a barely suppressed eye roll, in a contemporary interview<\/a>. As surely as eggs don\u2019t bounce, a \u201cbut\u201d followed: reshaping the malfunctioning technical department he\u2019d inherited from Jaguar Racing took priority over silk-pursificating the car it had produced.<\/p>\n

And this is the policy to which Newey is adhering at Aston Martin, while phrasing his observations more diplomatically \u2013 in public, at least, though he has spoken of the development \u2018tools\u2019 being \u201cweak\u201d.<\/p>\n

The challenge is to transact this reconstruction phase while managing expectations in the interim. Team owner Lawrence Stroll is notoriously impatient, as evinced by excoriating \u2018roastings\u2019 in the factory on the Monday following an unsuccessful weekend \u2013 of which there have been rather too many of late. Alonso, now into his 40s and painfully aware of the passage of time, is also in a hurry to get in a quick car again.<\/p>\n

Lance Stroll<\/a> gives the outward impression of being manifestly disengaged, and yet talk of behind-the-scenes tantrums suggests he does have an interest in development taking a turn for the better.<\/p>\n

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CEO and team principal Andy Cowell must therefore follow a pragmatic and delicately balanced route through this season, enabling Newey to reshape the technical organisation to his liking and keep his head in the 2026 game while also giving some impression of forward momentum with the current project.<\/p>\n

A new floor applied to the AMR25 in Imola was said to have had a noticeably positive effect, while further revisions to that floor \u2013 including new \u2018fences\u2019 \u2013 at Silverstone were in close-but-no-cigar territory.<\/p>\n

\"Fernando <\/p>\n

Fernando Alonso, Aston Martin Racing<\/p>\n

Photo by: Erik Junius<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it\u2019s a step forward \u2013 the car felt a bit better,\u201d said Alonso. \u201cThe data showed that in some parts of the track there\u2019s improvement; in others it\u2019s harder to see. So, let\u2019s say it\u2019s a very small upgrade package, but it\u2019s always welcome.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe way the grid is right now \u2013 with five or six cars within two tenths \u2013 a tenth or even half a tenth is valuable. It also shows that the team keeps pushing. We\u2019re not content being stuck in the midfield. We want to be as close as possible to the top teams by the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n

If the trajectory doesn\u2019t seem to be heading towards that vaguely expressed position in the upper midfield, will Stroll Sr start thumping desks and demanding Newey get involved? Maybe, but Adrian will resist all the way.<\/p>\n

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