If a report in a well-known Italian publication is to be believed, Aston Martin is also interested in Max Verstappen.
New off the rear of cases Adrian Newey has settled on Aston Martin for his best course of action in F1 once he leaves Red Bull, Italian distribution AutoSprint is guaranteeing that group proprietor Lawrence Walk is additionally haggling with Max Verstappen.
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AutoSprint reported on Thursday that Newey would be joining Aston Martin next year after completing his departure from Red Bull, for which he is currently on a period of soft gardening leave while completing his term as chief technical officer.
According to the report, Newey may have been influenced by a substantial offer made by billionaire team owner Lawrence Stroll. This offer will enable Newey to continue working in the United Kingdom with a team that has undergone significant investments and improvements to its infrastructure and facilities in recent years.
AutoSprint claims that Newey will be announced at Aston Martin in the beginning of September. However, the report goes on to say that Stroll is determined to persuade Max Verstappen to join Newey’s team and that negotiations have already begun with a focus on 2026.
Although there has been a lot of speculation this year that Verstappen wants to switch teams, the Dutch driver is still under contract with Red Bull until 2028. Mercedes’ Toto Wolff has made it clear that he wants to replace Lewis Hamilton when the seven-time F1 World Champion moves to Ferrari.
But if Verstappen doesn’t like Mercedes, could it be Aston Martin? Surely, getting the administrations of Newey – who regulated the plans of Verstappen’s title-winning Red Bulls – would be a major card for Walk around play on the off chance that such dealings are going on, however he would likewise be brought together with previous Red Bull air head Dan Fallows and, obviously, Honda.
The Japanese manufacturer, whose engines became the benchmark for Formula One in 2021 just as the current engine freeze was implemented, will switch to an exclusive supply agreement with Aston Martin after 2025. Verstappen partakes in a cozy relationship with Honda and may track down the suggestion of proceeding to race with their motors a more enticing proposal than the dubious capability of the Red Bull PowerTrains project that Red Bull has set out upon for the new guidelines cycle.
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According to AutoSprint, these talks are similar to the changes between Ferrari and Benetton after 1995, when Michael Schumacher, Ross Brawn, and Rory Byrne all left the world champion team to join Maranello.
The most important question is what will happen to Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll if any of the reports are true. Stroll could be moved to the Aston Martin WEC program to drive the Valkyrie, a car designed by Newey and developed in collaboration by Red Bull and Aston Martin.
Regarding the Newey rumors, the Italian publication AutoSprint claims that negotiations between the two parties stalled a long time ago. As a result, Ferrari was shocked when their technical director, Enrico Cardile, left for Aston Martin—to the point where lawyers are intervening to argue over his gardening leave.
Adrian Newey ‘has chosen Aston Martin’
Even though Newey has stated publicly that he intends to step away from Formula One when he leaves Red Bull next year, he is currently on a period of “soft gardening leave” while he continues to work for Red Bull to make the RB17 hypercar a reality.
Ferrari and Aston Martin have been the most persistent of these rumors; the Scuderia is one of the few major teams for which Newey has never worked and represents a mythical challenge for anyone working in Formula One.
Aston Martin has been going through a transitionary period as of late, with tycoon group proprietor Lawrence Walk changing the assets, offices, and foundation accessible for the previous Jordan/Power India crew, and the Silverstone-based crew currently can offer Newey all that he really wants assuming that he wants for the test of assisting the upper-midfield with joining become title challengers.
Autosprint, an Italian publication, claims that Newey has specifically chosen this challenge. Autosprint asserts with certainty that Newey has chosen to remain with a team based in the UK rather than relocate to Italy to adapt to Ferrari’s vastly different culture, as reported in the publication on Thursday.
