Christian Horner Gives His Verdict On Adrian Newey Joining Aston Martin

Aston Martin F1 team recently announced that they have successfully signed legendary Formula 1 designer Adrian Newey. Adrian Newey at the start of the currently ongoing F1 season had announced that he would be leaving Red Bull racing after being with the team for quite a long time. With the news that Adrian Newey leaving Red Bull, there were several rumours regarding where the Briton would go. Earlier it was thought that Newey was going to join Ferrari but soon enough the wind started blowing in Aston Martin's direction. 

It became official a few days ago when Adrian Newey was announced as the newest member of Aston Martin. 

Christian Horner Gives His Verdict 

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner gave his verdict on what he thinks of Adrian Newey joining Aston Martin. 

“Well, it wasn’t a great surprise. I think it was becoming clearer and clearer that was the route that he was going to go rather than into retirement or any other team. Obviously, it’ll be a new challenge for him.

“We’ll be sad to see it when he leaves next year, but we wish him all the best for the future. I look back with great fondness, the 20 years almost that we spent together, the highs and lows during that period. But we look forward to the future and I think we’re well positioned for that.

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“Adrian is obviously a very creative guy and he’s not your average designer. I think he’s the only person still in F1 working on a drawing board.

“Inevitably there will be a process of having to get to know each other [at Aston Martin], how each other work and so on, but he’s unique in many respects. I think that Aston will obviously look to draw upon his huge experience,” said the Red Bull Team Principal. 

"He’s Still Got An RB17 To Finish"- Horner 

Christian Horner further felt that the announcement of Adrian Newey was a bit premature as Newey is still contracted to Red Bull and is working on the RB17 hypercar. 

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“It’s obviously a massive announcement for Aston – perhaps slightly premature considering he’s still contracted to Red Bull until the early part of next year. 

“I can understand that they’re excited about Adrian joining their team, but in the meantime he’s still got an RB17 to finish. That’s going really well and making good progress,” said Horner.