Aston Martin is holding a press convention to make an announcement about its Method 1 group. Watch reside right here:
The group has not given any official indication what it intends to announce. Nevertheless for a number of weeks Aston Martin has been rumoured to have received the race to safe the companies of star F1 designer Adrian Newey.
The 65-year-old introduced in Might he’ll depart Pink Bull initially of subsequent 12 months. Newey is extensively considered essentially the most proficient designer working in F1 as we speak and whoever secures his companies for subsequent 12 months will achieve the good thing about his many years of expertise within the sport producing championship-winning automobiles for 3 completely different groups.
Newey got here to prominence with the Leyton Home March group in 1988 and was employed by Williams two years later. His designed for them received 5 constructors’ titles in six years between 1992 and 1997. He then joined McLaren, who took the title with the primary of their automobiles he labored on, in 1998.
Nevertheless Newey loved his biggest success after sensationally signing to hitch Pink Bull in 2005, their first 12 months within the sport. In 2010 they received the primary of 4 consecutive titles.
Though the group struggled within the early years of the V6 hybrid turbo period, Newey guided them again to profitable methods from 2021, when Max Verstappen received the drivers’ title for them. They took title doubles in 2022 and 2023, and are main this 12 months’s championship.
Nigel Mansell, Alain Prost, Damon Hill, Jacques Villeneuve, Mika Hakkinen and Sebastian Vettel have additionally received the drivers’ title in automobiles designed by Newey.
Lawrence Stroll has poured funding into Aston Martin since he took over the group in 2018. They moved into a brand new, state-of-the-art manufacturing unit final 12 months and have employed a raft of prime engineering expertise from rival groups. If they’ve certainly signed Newey, it is going to be a big assertion of intent about their plans for 2026, after they may also start a works engine take care of Honda.
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