Adrian Newey to Leave Red Bull in 2025: Hypercar Project and Meeting with Vasseur Explained

Red Bull’s statement this morning leaves no room for doubt. Adrian Newey, after 19 years, will leave the Milton Keynes team in the first quarter of 2025. Put this way, it would seem like news that effectively causes the problem of the subsequent “gardening” period , ie the months in which the competition non-exclusion clause that each team usually applies to key technical people, prevents their immediate use by a rival team. In fact, it’s right in the middle of Red Bull’s press release lineswhich instead explains the scope of the agreement reached between the England coach’s lawyers and the team’s lawyers.

hypercar project

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In fact, Newey is now leaving any design role within the F1 team’s technical office, specifically dealing with the creation of the RB17 hypercar, until his project is complete. In those months, of course, Newey will not take any part, and he will not participate in the technical meetings aimed at setting the foundations of the 2025 single-seater, although he has not been present at the grand prix. Newey, of course, at the level of the F1 program, focuses only on routine administration that also includes the role of technical support on the track. The developments that will be introduced in the coming months are not a business secret that Newey needs to keep in the dark, as they have already been planned and are currently being discussed in Milton Keynes ( it is worth emphasizing that every development. , from the concept stage to the production stage of the individual components has an average lead time of eight weeks). In fact, Newey’s lawyers could use the move that the team leaders, led by Christian Horner, had suggested to Newey months ago as a strong acceleration to end the contract. In practice he was asked to deal with the Hypercar project only.

the meeting with Vasseur

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It is worth emphasizing that Newey’s role as Chief Technical Officer, in his current two-year contract signed last November, expires at the end of 2025, meaning he was involved in all the technical initiatives of the Red Bull Technology group, including Formula. 1. By working on this lever, the lawyers found, in fact, that Newey effectively reduces the gardening period associated with the non-compete clause, starting from the date of the agreement reached, ie yesterday. In addition, yesterday evening Fred Vasseur met with Newey in London, and in addition from our sources, the respective legal teams have begun to work to explain the details of the contract that tied the engineer Stratfor upon Avon to Maranello. It seems that it was like a dream without a real vision, a few months ago, closer.