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Red Bull has confirmed that its renowned car designer Adrian Newey will depart the team early next year – here’s what the writers at RacingNews365.com think of the announcement.
Adrian Newey will leave Red Bull in the first quarter of 2025, ending a 19-year relationship that has brought six F1 constructors’ titles and seven drivers’ championships to Milton Keynes. The Red Bull chief technical officer joined from McLaren in 2006, just its second season in F1. Now, the team must head into a new chassis and power unit era without the guidance of arguably the greatest engineer and designer in the championship’s history. There is a lot to unpack, so the RacingNews365 team are on hand to help navigate what his exit means for Red Bull and for F1 on the whole. Newey is already the greatest technical mind in Formula 1 history, and has nothing left to achieve in grand prix racing. Red Bull will be facing its first regulation change without Newey in 2026, and with so much uncertainty surrounding the next batch of rules, it could present a huge headache for the Milton Keynes-based outfit. Losing Newey is bad enough – but it needs to do all it can to ensure it is Newey only and not others, with Max Verstappen top of that list.
