Adrian Newey starts work at Aston Martin
Discussion
vaud said:
I didn't read it as a moan. Lots of teams have had issues with correlation in the ground effect era. A new tunnel will take time to fully calibrate and understand, at a guess.
Aston Martin were, until this year, using Mercedes. This appears to have had poor correlation to the real world (there's a very good Driver61 YouTube video detailing the reasoning behind it, almost entirely above my head) until recently. This year's upgrades might indicate their chances next year, because if the 2025 upgrades work then it implies a good correlation between Aston Martin's wind tunnel and reality. In turn, that means the designing of the 2026 car should work in both the wind tunnel and reality. If the upgrades all fail and the wind tunnel and/or other testing/design facilities don't map onto the real world very well then the car might not be very good.
Newey's a great designer but something like an inaccurate wind tunnel is a pretty severe handicap.
You would think that but Redbulls cold war era wind tunnel didn't seem to hold him back in 2010-2013 and 2021-2024, unless of course they were somehow cheating to make up for the deficit with an adjustable bib or brake inertia valve, water in tyres or all three?
Edited by Doink on Friday 2nd May 16:28
What is it anyway. Just wind and smoke. If you have the brains to understand what the smoke is doing you can design your car.
Cant help thinking everyone bar red bull were buying themselves another few years by saying they need a new wind tunnel.
Newey was not even on the horizon when Aston decided to build themselves a new state of the wallet tunnel.
Cant help thinking everyone bar red bull were buying themselves another few years by saying they need a new wind tunnel.
Newey was not even on the horizon when Aston decided to build themselves a new state of the wallet tunnel.
hondajack85 said:
Well he has said it himself. There is more to becoming a winning team than one Newey.
AM dont have accurate tools and enough good staff yet. No chance Max will do an Alonso and move to a worse team next year or even maybe after.
The same could have been said about Ferrari in 1996……AM dont have accurate tools and enough good staff yet. No chance Max will do an Alonso and move to a worse team next year or even maybe after.
Drivers think long term, especially when they’re only 27 years old
Muzzer79 said:
The same could have been said about Ferrari in 1996……
Drivers think long term, especially when they’re only 27 years old
Yes, but Max has always hinted he's not a long termer in F1. Drivers think long term, especially when they’re only 27 years old
He likes his computer endurance GT games. I could see him move to WEC in due course.
I could actually see him go for the Triple Crown as well!
Sky Sports said:
Adrian Newey will become Aston Martin's team principal from the 2026 Formula 1 season with Andy Cowell taking on a new role at the outfit.
Newey will combine the job with the managing technical partner role he has held since joining the team from Red Bull earlier this year.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/13475798/a...
Seems like Christian Horner will need to look elsewhere for a job...Newey will combine the job with the managing technical partner role he has held since joining the team from Red Bull earlier this year.
https://www.skysports.com/f1/news/12433/13475798/a...
He's going to earn the nickname of 'One Nano Newey' as that's how thinly he'll be spread out with all the roles he's taken on
F1 teams today are too big an organisation for one person to lead both technical and team at the same time
Maybe he took a strategic position on becoming TP, now Horner has no route in to AMF1
F1 teams today are too big an organisation for one person to lead both technical and team at the same time
Maybe he took a strategic position on becoming TP, now Horner has no route in to AMF1
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