Adrian Newey has already made feelings clear on ditching Red Bull for Hamilton and Ferrari
Speculation regarding the future of Adrian Newey is rife with the Red Bull technical guru reportedly ‘unhappy' at the team.
Adrian Newey has already expressed his ‘regret’ over not working with both Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton. The legendary engineer is reportedly unhappy at Red Bull due to the ongoing unrest within the team, and the Italian constructor will likely seize any opportunity to prise him away from the reigning champions.
Newey has been working with Red Bull since 2006 and played a pivotal role in developing the title-winning machinery for four-time world champion Sebastian Vettel and three-time world champion Max Verstappen. The sensational design philosophy behind the RB20 and its predecessors has cemented him as the all-time engineering great in F1.
However, his commitment to Red Bull moving forward is not guaranteed. According to a report from Auto Motor und Sport, Newey is ‘not happy’ with the ongoing Christian Horner saga, and may be be moved away from the F1 operation and onto the RB17 project due to budgetary constraints within the cost cap.
This would offer Ferrari - who have been pursuing Newey’s signature for the better part of three decades - the opportunity to swoop in and steal Red Bull’s biggest technical asset. Given the draw of working with Charles Leclerc and Hamilton under the leadership of the popular Fred Vasseur, this could be a tempting proposal.
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Newey addressed his Ferrari regrets during an appearance on the Beyond The Grid podcast. "Emotionally, I guess, to a point, yes," he replied when asked if he wished he had worked with Ferrari during his career.
"But just as, for instance, working with Fernando [Alonso] and Lewis would have been fabulous. But it never happened. It's just circumstance sometimes, that's the way it is.”
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The 65-year-old had two opportunities to join Ferrari with the first coming in 1993 and the most recent coming in 2014, but he turned down the move on both occasions. Explaining his reasoning, he said: "The main reason I didn't is my first marriage failed, for various reasons, but probably predominantly because I went off to IndyCar.
“I was living in the [United] States during the season. My relatively newly-wed life came out with me to start with, really didn't like living in America and went back. That put a strain on our marriage [that] we never really recovered from, to be honest. In '93, I was one year into my second marriage and didn't want to make that same mistake again."