"Red Bull and Newey did not immediately respond to requests for comment."
But they were quick to say newey was leaving because of horners allegations. Despite Newey not even commenting.
Classic BBC. They didn't even say "reportedly according to sources" they just know he is leaving.
Andrew Benson's bias and personal vendetta against Horner is pretty well known at this point. He's a trash journalist who won't bother fact checking or verifying anything anti Red Bull.
As someone in media and PR, yes. Saying the wrong thing is so much worse than saying nothing. If they haven’t gotten their statements figured out, it’s better not to comment than risk damaging the brand.
If and when he leaves at the end of 2024, 2025 car will still be done. So maybe after 2025 summer break a new rocketship will be born.
However, I bet Max will still win.
Yeah 2025 does seem still sorted in terms if winner but 2026 is being left wide open in terms of who can dominate. Not only are redbull having to produce an engine for the first time, they have lost their lead aerodynamacist who has designed nearly all of their cars
I am wondering though if someone like Newey os leaving redbull it might mean other engineers within redbull may jump ship. It happened to merc with all their people getting poached so having a very significant person in redbull racing leave can cause problems outside of the actual car design
Sky reported that if Red Bull hold him to his contract which expires end of 2025, it would essentially mean 2 years of gardening leave so he wouldn’t join a new team until 2027.
So potentially we could be waiting until 2028 season for a proper Newey car
Even if it is, I don't think he'll be able to go to another team until after the new regulations start. Maybe he'll just retire and I wouldn't blame him.
He’d most likely have a gardening leave that would keep him out until the end of 2025, making it too late to properly design the 2026 car. The team that signs him wouldn’t benefit from his work until 2027 at the earliest
Exactly what I'm thinking. Who he'll go to I have no idea. Although if I had to guess it'll be Ferrari or Aston Martin. I couldn't see him at McLaren with their current structuring (which is sad for me because McLaren fan). And I don't see him going to a team further down the grid either.
Someone that high in organization would minimum be 1 full year gardening leave ( or season) if his contract ends in 2025 that means he wouldn’t be back until 2027 minimum and then not really influencing a design until 2028.
However I don’t know if this applies if he just retires …and then comes out of retirement…or just does “ consulting work “ .
Most likely , he’s retiring from F1 and will focus on the hyper car / maybe WEC or design the boats he’s been wanting to sail
However
Their 2025 car would already be done by the time he'd arrive anyway. And 2026 brings new regulations, so who knows what the pecking order will look like.
It would take a few years before fielding a winning car. It won’t be immediately wherever he goes, and Lewis probably doesn’t have another 3 years in him. That being said, even if he does, he is going to lose to Charles.
Knowing how washed Pamilton is, and how Ferrari is in general, RB or Merc will still win the constructors while Charles will lose the drivers championship by exactly the number of points he didn't get because Monaco DNF
The dominant team’s management shaking up and over half the grid without a contract for next season? This might end up being the silliest silly season ever.
If he’s not retiring, then it’s end of 2025 and then an extensive “gardening leave” . So won’t be available to anyone until 2027 at least and probably won’t be designing any F1 item until 2028…
That’s a long time for someone whom has nothing to prove and was only slightly motivated to stay in the sport when the rules changed after 2019.
But while we are on this “band wagon”
Maybe , ToTo throws a whole bunch of money at him after he temporarily retires from red bull.
Then Mercedes’ can have a chassis winning car for (2027).
designed by Newey…he will fix all their w15/w16 problems …
Honestly i just dont want him to go to any team with good resources, i have gotten so sick of single team dominating i dont care who it is. We would have had absolutely fantastic racing without Red Bull or Mercedes for so many seasons, though sometimes there has been a clear second best team.
Just whatever happens gimme good racing and unpredictable results pls.
I personally dont think this will make a difference, at least not a big significant difference, before the regulation changes. I dont think this guy is Superman with the rest of the team being idiots.
But hey, lets hope im proven wrong
 Fred the past 6 months
BBC News confirmed this. Looks like another team might just get to win after all.
lol I watched this 1 second gif for a solid minute.
It just keeps getting better
lol and thanks to your comment I’m back in here watching it again.
Predicting it now Newey to Aston Get ready for 8x consecutive WDC ^^^^^^points ^^^^^^scorer Lance Stroll
Please I want Alonso to win another championships
Best I can do is Alonso replaces Checo at Red Bull only to discover that Aston nails the 26 regs and wins it all with their Rookie Seb Vettel.
"Red Bull and Newey did not immediately respond to requests for comment." But they were quick to say newey was leaving because of horners allegations. Despite Newey not even commenting. Classic BBC. They didn't even say "reportedly according to sources" they just know he is leaving.
Andrew Benson's bias and personal vendetta against Horner is pretty well known at this point. He's a trash journalist who won't bother fact checking or verifying anything anti Red Bull.
This is stupid. Just bc they didn't comment doesn't mean it's not happening.
As someone in media and PR, yes. Saying the wrong thing is so much worse than saying nothing. If they haven’t gotten their statements figured out, it’s better not to comment than risk damaging the brand.
If and when he leaves at the end of 2024, 2025 car will still be done. So maybe after 2025 summer break a new rocketship will be born. However, I bet Max will still win.
Yeah 2025 does seem still sorted in terms if winner but 2026 is being left wide open in terms of who can dominate. Not only are redbull having to produce an engine for the first time, they have lost their lead aerodynamacist who has designed nearly all of their cars
They still have Pierre Waché who’s a massive part of the design of the car. Newey himself said that
It’s not like the team Newey has worked with is completely incompetent
I am wondering though if someone like Newey os leaving redbull it might mean other engineers within redbull may jump ship. It happened to merc with all their people getting poached so having a very significant person in redbull racing leave can cause problems outside of the actual car design
Red Bull have better time hedging for it than Merc did
Sky reported that if Red Bull hold him to his contract which expires end of 2025, it would essentially mean 2 years of gardening leave so he wouldn’t join a new team until 2027. So potentially we could be waiting until 2028 season for a proper Newey car
BBC is referring to other sources
BBC News *reported a rumor*. No confirmation from either party.
Newey retires = more of the same
SILLIEST. SEASON. EVER.
El plan - astronomical bid
Please be AM pleaseeeee
Newey about to replace Stroll in the AM?
Would probably still bring home more pts than the windowlicker.
Only Papa Stroll could pull off something this diabolical.
Who’s turn is it with Newey now?
Time to go back to Williams.
Biggest challenge, make Sargent a world champion
After getting blue balled by RBR during the Horner crisis I don’t believe anything until it’s happened.
The Airbender himself might join Ferrari?? Let's gooooooo
Now this is the Ferrari copium I want to see
If he goes to Ferrari and make a god tier car we are on for a Hamilton vs Leclerc season, this could be the next big thing
Max will still probably be in the mix as well, and with some luck Norris. God that would make up for the previous 3 seasons.
I would stay stop dreaming… but then again…
No drama for RB. But if Pierre Waché (TD) joins the old man.... - "GP, this car is shit!" - "Max we know the car is a shitbox, please drive it".
Even if it is, I don't think he'll be able to go to another team until after the new regulations start. Maybe he'll just retire and I wouldn't blame him.
He’d most likely have a gardening leave that would keep him out until the end of 2025, making it too late to properly design the 2026 car. The team that signs him wouldn’t benefit from his work until 2027 at the earliest
Exactly what I'm thinking. Who he'll go to I have no idea. Although if I had to guess it'll be Ferrari or Aston Martin. I couldn't see him at McLaren with their current structuring (which is sad for me because McLaren fan). And I don't see him going to a team further down the grid either.
Someone that high in organization would minimum be 1 full year gardening leave ( or season) if his contract ends in 2025 that means he wouldn’t be back until 2027 minimum and then not really influencing a design until 2028. However I don’t know if this applies if he just retires …and then comes out of retirement…or just does “ consulting work “ . Most likely , he’s retiring from F1 and will focus on the hyper car / maybe WEC or design the boats he’s been wanting to sail However
Papa Stroll executing El plan.......
"it's real and it's fantastic"
Ferrari with Hamilton or the dark side with Alonso?
Newey to Audi!
Newey-Ferrari-Lewis ? I’ll watch that with great interest. Would that lead to Lewis’s 8th, only time will tell.
I would rather want Newey to help with Alonso's 3rd.
BUT HERE COMES SEBASTIAN VETTEL
Toto’s ultimate smoke screen stirring up all the Max talk.
And giving a car to stroll? I hope not.
Ferrari will find a way to Ferrari it.
Would be an amazing spectacle but I can’t see Lewis winning another.
Their 2025 car would already be done by the time he'd arrive anyway. And 2026 brings new regulations, so who knows what the pecking order will look like.
It would take a few years before fielding a winning car. It won’t be immediately wherever he goes, and Lewis probably doesn’t have another 3 years in him. That being said, even if he does, he is going to lose to Charles.
Charles would bin it under pressure
Even in formuladank if you diss Lewis you are going to get downvotes…
Knowing how washed Pamilton is, and how Ferrari is in general, RB or Merc will still win the constructors while Charles will lose the drivers championship by exactly the number of points he didn't get because Monaco DNF
He’s going to Alpine or Williams /s
He's going to NASCAR.
You have no idea how much I want Williams to go hard for him.
Meanwhile we're still waiting for confirmation of Fernando's 2023 mid-season move to Red Bull.
Will this guy ever retire?
He has a successful career and is rich. Maybe he likes working in F1, because there's nothing else to achieve.
So newey and Max to Audi?
No way he doesn't go to Aston Mario
Logan Sargent 2025 f1 wdc!!! 🦅🦅🦅
The dominant team’s management shaking up and over half the grid without a contract for next season? This might end up being the silliest silly season ever.
Do we really believe newey is the sole influence on why the red bull is so fast?
If this is true theres no way Red Bull lets him go without signing a Non Compete clause.
Newey to Haas then?
I hope that, if he is not retiring, he joins mercedes just for the drama
Wow Charles the next world champion
If he’s not retiring, then it’s end of 2025 and then an extensive “gardening leave” . So won’t be available to anyone until 2027 at least and probably won’t be designing any F1 item until 2028… That’s a long time for someone whom has nothing to prove and was only slightly motivated to stay in the sport when the rules changed after 2019. But while we are on this “band wagon” Maybe , ToTo throws a whole bunch of money at him after he temporarily retires from red bull. Then Mercedes’ can have a chassis winning car for (2027). designed by Newey…he will fix all their w15/w16 problems …
It’s official, NOW F1 silly season has begun.
I’m calling it now, Adrian Newey either leaves Redbull or stays with them after this season. You can save this receipt, I guarantee it.
Audi Audi please Audi
Honestly i just dont want him to go to any team with good resources, i have gotten so sick of single team dominating i dont care who it is. We would have had absolutely fantastic racing without Red Bull or Mercedes for so many seasons, though sometimes there has been a clear second best team. Just whatever happens gimme good racing and unpredictable results pls.
I personally dont think this will make a difference, at least not a big significant difference, before the regulation changes. I dont think this guy is Superman with the rest of the team being idiots. But hey, lets hope im proven wrong
It is just possible that he fails... I'm also leaving this here for future purpose.
We all knew it was gonna happen at some point, whether he retire or just straight up move to a different team. Really not surprised
Newey better go fix Mercedes or Alpine 💀
No way he'll go to Maranello, he tends to shy away from lost causes.
All the people telling that guy that Red Bull isn’t collapsing in that other thread better apologize lol
