How Newey will link Alonso, Honda and Aston Martin together for 2026 title bid

OPINION: Adrian Newey has finally been unveiled as Aston Martin's new technical managing partner and will join the Silverstone team to lead its engineering department from 2025. Despite an already stacked technical team, Newey has the experience and credentials to link the designers, drivers, and powertrain partner Honda together

Out with the old; in with the Newey. It's an opener that only really works if Aston Martin had lost a high-profile member of its technical team and replaced them directly with the design board-toting mystique of Adrian Newey. In this case, where his services have been acquired on top of an already well-stacked engineering department, the opening sentence is a little bit of a stretch. But one highly doubts that one will get to write it again...

The evolution of Newey's migration from Red Bull had been leisurely, at least from an outside perspective. His bombshell announcement that he would leave the team after 19 years could not be followed immediately with a further indication of his future - owing to a suspected September announcement clause. Besides, he was likely in no rush: Newey would get time to decide what was best for his own future, and could task manager Eddie Jordan with setting the price for apparent guaranteed success in Formula 1.

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Having studied Automotive Engineering with Motorsport at the University of Hertfordshire, West Country-born Jake's original ambition was to design racing cars. During a year between studies in which he accidentally rekindled a love of writing, he took up a Master's in Motorsport Engineering at Oxford Brookes. Halfway through his master's year, he was offered a place on the Autosport Academy, conducting occasional freelance duties before becoming the press officer for Formula 2 and GP3 in 2018. Autosport offered him a return to the fold later that year to serve as its Technical Editor. His voice appears on a number of videos and podcasts, and can often be found writing about terrible Formula 1 cars in excruciating detail. In his spare time, Jake enjoys baking and blames his failure to make it past the Great British Bake-Off interviews on his tenuous grasp on choux pastry. His dream is to open a brunch cafe - and his willingness to make outrageous puns in inappropriate situations has earned him the contempt of his colleagues.