Red Bull’s motorsport advisor Helmut Marko has offered hints at Adrian Newey’s future workforce, believing that the British engineer might be part of Ferrari after leaving the Milton Keynes-based outfit.
F1 star designer Adrian Newey introduced his shock departure from Red Bull final Tuesday. The British engineer stays at Milton Keynes till the primary quarter of 2025, however he’ll slowly scale down his involvement within the workforce’s F1 mission, and can relocate his deal with Red Bull’s hypercar mission as a substitute.
Unsurprisingly, it has since emerged that a number of outfits have an interest within the providers of Newey. While Aston Martin had been a scorching candidate even earlier than Newey introduced his departure from Red Bull, the Silverstone-based workforce’s boss Mike Krack indicated that Newey is not going to be part of his outfit.
Since then, Ferrari has been talked about as Newey’s potential office, however Williams confirmed finally weekend’s Miami Grand Prix that they’ve held talks with the British engineer too.
Speaking of Newey’s potential future workforce, Marko didn’t wish to identify Ferrari as Red Bull’s star designer’s new office, however he hinted that the Briton would possibly wear rear as of 2025.
“I was obviously misunderstood. I would rather choose red,” Marko was quoted as saying by oe24.at.
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While reigning world champion Max Verstappen burdened that Red Bull has a transparent plan to fill the void left by Newey sooner or later, his team-mate Sergio Perez conceded that the star designer will probably be tremendously missed, and the British engineer may have “an immediate impact” on any Formula 1 workforce he could change to after he leaves Red Bull.
Marko didn’t hesitate to concede that Red Bull will miss Adrian Newey’s enter, however he’s hopeful that the Anglo-Austrian outfit will have the ability to keep its aggressive stage given its technical division.
“Newey is a legend. He is the very best F1 designer and he was at his finest when there have been modifications to the rules as a result of he all the time is aware of find out how to finest exploit the brand new interpretations. And with Newey you have got a figurehead. With him on board, you ca get younger engineers a lot simpler as a result of it was an honour for them to work with him.
“On the opposite hand, our technical workforce could be very wealthy with a mixture of skilled individuals like Pierre Waché and youthful individuals. When there have been issues, Newey was typically the primary to give you an answer.
“The fantasy goes with Newey, however I do not suppose we may have a technical collapse due to it,” added Marko.
