Adrian Newey Renews Contract with Red Bull F1 Team

Adrian Newey has agreed a contract extension with the Red Bull F1 team, entrusting the future of F1 to Red Bull, Autosport reports. Legendary F1 designer Adrian Newey’s current contract is due to be renewed at the end of 2023, sparking recent speculation that he may be targeted by competitors.

But after Red Bull’s RB19 started the 2023 season in a dominant fashion, the team and Newey are working together for years to come to sort out the details of a new arrangement. The move was swift, officials said. Newey will continue as Chief Technical Officer, overseeing the progress of Red Bull’s Formula 1 team, its Advanced Technology business and its new powertrain division. The official announcement of the new contract and the details of the contract period have not been announced yet, but Red Bull Racing’s F1 team representative Christian Horner said that Newway, who joined in 2006, has officially joined the team. “Adrian has been an important part of it almost from the beginning,” Horner told Autosport. “He covers a lot of areas and you can use his experience and depth of knowledge and the way he works with young people is great.” Of course, he’s very interested in what’s going on at Powertrains and Red Bull Advanced Technology, so he’s covering the three pillars of the Milton Keynes campus.” Horner believes Newey’s structure at Red Bull, where he works alongside seniors like F1 technical director Pierre Wache and powertrain boss Ben Hodgkinson, helps him play to his strengths. ing. “I think Pierre on the chassis is doing a great job,” said Horner. “Ben Hodgkinson at Powertrains is also doing a great job and Rob Gray is in Advanced Technology,” he said. We can use his breadth of experience across the group.” And he said he was burning with the prospect of designing an entire package for the first time ever. “Adrian is a very talented engineer in all things combustion,” said Horner. “You can see that he fully understands this concept and sees the long-term potential of it.” Newey is F1’s most successful car designer, winning titles with Williams, McLaren and Red Bull. considered to be one of the