Red Bull design guru Adrian Newey has played a major role in Max Verstappen’s F1 success.
Red Bull has reportedly been informed by design expert Adrian Newey that he will remain with the team in spite of the uncertainty surrounding Christian Horner’s future. A possible transfer to Ferrari has been the subject of conjecture because of Newey’s previous remarks and intriguing social media behavior.
At a hearing on Friday at the Red Bull factory, Horner’s alleged “inappropriate behavior” is expected to come to an end. Since taking over in 2005, the seasoned team principal has guided Sebastian Vettel to four Drivers’ Championships and Max Verstappen to three more.
The year after Horner’s hire, Red Bull welcomed Newey, their extremely powerful chief technical officer. Furthermore, if Horner is forced out, some have speculated that the 65-year-old may try to defect and pursue a dream job at Ferrari.
He said to Beyond The Grid, in response to the question of whether he regretted never having the opportunity to collaborate with the Prancing Horse, “Emotionally, I guess, to a point. Indeed. Sometimes that’s just the way things are. That’s just how things are.
Moreover, Newey’s spouse approved a post on X stating that the current turn of events provides him with a “opportunity to cross those regrets.” But F1-insider claims that Newey has already told Red Bull that he will stick with them whether Horner stays or leaves.
According to the report, Horner and Newey’s Red Bull contracts were formerly linked, which allowed one of them to leave the building without facing consequences. However, that is reportedly no longer the case. Indeed, it has been reported that the “friendship bonds” between the Red Bull CEO and the design guru have “broken.”
Red Bull wants to get internal problems fixed before their 2024 Formula One car, the RB20, is unveiled on February 15. Later this month, pre-season testing is scheduled to begin in Bahrain, where Verstappen is expected to win the Drivers’ Championship for a record-breaking fourth time.
According to Newey, the team decided against making significant modifications to the car from the previous year, which outperformed the competition. It’s essentially a third evolution of the 2022 car, he said in a podcast interview with Talking Bull.
The car from last year was an evolution of the one from ’22 in that it included some understanding of what needed to be done with the suspension to try to improve the car as well as getting weight out of it, since we never got down to the weight limit in ’22, and the usual winter development in terms of aerodynamics.
The vehicle for this year is the third iteration of the original RB18. Of course, we don’t know if the third evolution is overly conservative while other theories have taken a different tack. You simply are ignorant.”
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