Ahead of this weekend’s Miami Grand Prix, Red Bull have confirmed that Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey will depart the Red Bull Technology Group within the first quarter of 2025.
Following a number of stories in latest weeks, the Milton Keynes-based outfit has introduced that Newey will step again from design work at Oracle Red Bull Racing. The Briton will stick with the crew till the primary quarter of 2025, however he’ll give attention to the ultimate improvement and supply of Red Bull’s first hypercar, his extremely anticipated RB17 set to be unveiled at Goodwood in July
Despite stepping again from his F1 duties, Newey will proceed to attend particular races to help the Red Bull’s trackside crew to the top of the 2024 season
Commenting on his choice, Newey added: “Ever since I used to be a younger boy, I needed to be a designer of quick automobiles. My dream was to be an engineer in Formula One, and I’ve been fortunate sufficient to make that dream a actuality. For nearly 20 years it has been my nice honour to have performed a key function in Red Bull Racing’s progress from upstart newcomer to a number of title-winning Team.
“However, I really feel now could be an opportune second at hand that baton over to others and to hunt new challenges for myself. In the interim, the ultimate levels of improvement of RB17 are upon us, so for the rest of my time with the Team my focus will lie there.
“I want to thank the various superb folks I’ve labored with at Red Bull in our journey during the last 18 years for his or her expertise, dedication and laborious work. It has been an actual privilege, and I’m assured that the engineering Team are nicely ready for the work going into the ultimate evolution of the automobile underneath the four-year interval of this regulation set.
“On a personal note, I would also like to thank the shareholders, the late Dietrich Mateschitz, Mark Mateschitz and Chalerm Yoovidhya for their unwavering support during my time at Red Bull, and Christian, who has not only been my business partner but also a friend of our respective families. Also, thanks to Oliver Mintzlaff for his stewardship and Eddie Jordan, my close friend and manager.”
The Team publicizes that Chief Technical Officer Adrian Newey will depart the Red Bull Technology Group within the first quarter of 2025.
The engineering supremo will step again from Formula 1
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Expanding on Newey’s choice, Red Bull Team Principal and CEO Christian Horner mentioned: “All of our biggest moments from the previous 20 years have include Adrian’s hand on the technical tiller. His imaginative and prescient and brilliance have helped us to 13 titles in 20 seasons. His distinctive potential to conceptualise past F1 and produce wider inspiration to bear on the design of grand prix automobiles, his outstanding expertise for embracing change and discovering essentially the most rewarding areas of the principles to give attention to, and his relentless will to win have helped Red Bull Racing to turn into a better pressure than I feel even the late Dietrich Mateschitz might need imagined.
“More than that, the previous 19 years with Adrian have been monumental enjoyable. For me, when Adrian joined Red Bull, he was already a celebrity designer. Two many years and 13 Championships later he leaves as a real legend. He can be my pal and somebody I can be eternally grateful to for every little thing he dropped at our partnership. The legacy he leaves behind will echo by way of the halls of Milton Keynes and RB17 Track Car can be a becoming testomony and legacy to his time with us.”
Since becoming a member of Red Bull Racing in 2006, Newey’s imaginative and prescient and technical management has been instrumental for the Milton Keynes-based squad in reaching a outstanding seven F1 Drivers’ and 6 Constructors’ Championship titles – totalling 118 victories and 101 poles together with the STR 2008 pole and victory.
The first automobile that was designed underneath Newey’s technical management was the RB3 which achieved a podium end on the 2007 European Grand Prix. The following 12 months his design achieved the Group’s first victory with Sebastian Vettel and Toro Rosso on the Italian GP.
The 2009 season introduced a raft of key adjustments to the technical regulation. Red Bull’s new automobile on this new period, the RB5 introduced the Anglo-Austrian crew its first win, on the Chinese Grand Prix in 2009, and 5 additional victories that season.
In 2010, RB6 carried the Red Bull to its first double title victory, an achievement that was repeated in every of the next three years. The introduction of hybrid energy to F1 in 2014 led to leaner occasions and a primary step again from sole F1 dedication for Newey to permit creation of the Valkyrie hypercar.
The arrival of Honda because the Team’s energy unit associate in 2019 reignited his aggressive spark. RB16B introduced a primary Championship in eight years in 2021. An in depth regulation change for the next season resulted in one other clear sheet design, the RB18, resulting in a brand new period of dominance beginning in 2022 and persevering with to at the present time.
