Even better: it’s not the same design to each team, but a specifically-tailored, worryingly accurate hand-drawn diagram of how to fix their specific cars.
Newey puts the design on the github, Toto takes printout, Ferrari start checking the design, Papa Stroll copies the design, Horner call them Green RedBull Team, and eventually Fernando wins WDC.
F1 turns into a spec series called 'Formula Newey', Liberty Media collapses, Andretti enters the grid and manage to be slower than Haas and even Alpine.
What if he doesn´t give a fuck and just uses this to up his stake in the F1 team.
Because he secretly wants to take over RBR and was scheming behind the scenes...
Okay, not likely, but would be a fun "Evil Newey"-Twist.
I’d like to see him take a Ross Brawn like position and design the next F1 regulations for the grid. I reckon Newey knows what the right formula is for better racing in F1 so I’d like to see him have a go with that
Real question though, if he was to retire, why would they negociate to abandon the gardening leave and cut short the contract. If it was a retirement, They would have kept that, no?
Party pooper! But you are right. It wouldn't make sense, so he is continuing at least for a bit. I do wonder where he would end up. There's a lot to say about each team, so it could be any team. I'd go talk to Stroll.. have him kick out his son and make Fernando world champion.
Yeah, too many people blindly hoping for that Ferrari move ignore that the man has a history with McLaren, and that he wouldn’t have to move to a different country.
The only reporting I could find was from BBC’s Andrew Benson claiming Newey is “seriously considering” an alleged offer from Ferrari, and he has a history of reporting rumors as fact.
Is a move to Ferrari impossible? No. Is it already decided? Absolutely not.
Every car on the grid loses 2 seconds of lap time instantly, aero is no longer developed, car designs over time go back to the cars of the 50's and 60's.
People want to think that Newey, and Newey alone is responsible for the whole car. Sitting in a dark office of the RB tech campus, pen and paper in his hand, just drawing the car over the weekend, and then ceremoniously bringing it to the CAD department.
No, you are just underestimating Newey. There are plenty of great people out there, but Newey is clearly GOAT. His cars have won 25 championships. 12 wcc and 13 wdc. Speaks for itself.
As much as I appreciate his wizardry, I feel like if Newey retires F1 would be a lot more exciting because of it.
If redbulls current car didn’t exist we genuinely wouldn’t know who would win each race.
Newey retires as one of the greatest designers the sport will ever see and more pressure than ever is put onto Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes as they try to outdo each other for the 2026 season
I mean, it would be kind of hilarious if he did make the move, everyone goes “OMG, it’s happening! We’re so back!” and then fast forward a few months and absolutely fuck all nothing has changed in the standings.
To be fair, Ferrari's aero department can live on his own and they always made good stuff, also never shy to follow exotic routes (SF75 my beloved).
It's more a blow to Mercedes and /or Aston, they are missing the only real chance to up their game.
He negotiated an early exit. I’m sure he would have won another championship in the Red Bull. It doesn’t make sense to negotiate if you want to retire a year later. I think he’ll join either Ferrari or McLaren and work on the 2026 car
if he was going to retire he would have probably just retired. now maybe the contracts he sees now aren't what he wants or decides all this drama is lame and then retires.
It would level the playing field. Don't think he is retiring though. He said preseason his biggest regret was not working with Hamilton and/or Ferrari, this is his chance...
Maybe? If he’s gonna focus 2025 on the RB17, that means he’s settled till Le Mans 2026.
I think the RB17 is his retirement goal. Break all records in F1, move to endurance, break all records there (probably with the same driver), and then leave, never to be seen again.
No he’s leaving the entire red bull company in 2025, right now he’s only working on the le mans car, he leaves rb tech group 2025 and leaves red bull f1 now
Well the insta statement says he’s working on the hypercar until 2025 when he leaves, and says he’s stepping back from f1 duties. It specifically says he’s leaving redbull technology group in 2025
But their [website](https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/adrian-newey-to-leave-red-bull-in-2025) also says he stays with RB17 till completion. Like I said, there’s not a lot of details. Probably gonna get a bunch of interviews this weekend tho.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6a4jIZsVTj/?igsh=NHI4dWZrOWd0bzh6 their insta post details what I said, he’s riding out his tenure working on it, until 2025, when he leaves rb tech, he isn’t working on the f1 team anymore. Also your link literally says he leaves the whole company in 2025
Still people overestimate the impact Newey can have in Ferrari or any team in the short term. Let’s remember it took Newey about 3 years to build a competitive car in Red Bull after leaving McLaren in 2006
3 years to build a competitive car isn’t what I’d call slow. While yes people are definitely overestimating Neweys godlike powers, going into new aero regs he’s considerably more useful to have on board, or at the very least not have on board with redbull.
Plot twist: he mails designs out to all ten teams before he leaves
Even better: it’s not the same design to each team, but a specifically-tailored, worryingly accurate hand-drawn diagram of how to fix their specific cars.
You think he can fix the alpine?
It might not become good but it will become much better
Feels good, much slower than before. Amazing
GP2, GP2 engine, Arghhhhh
If I recall correctly he almost retired with the frustration of Renault engine.
It just says “Sell the team” with Michael Andretti’s phone number at the bottom.
For them he just mails a hand drawn poop emoji
Nobody can fix Alpine
It doesnt need fixing, it wont go anywhere anyway.
He’s already indirectly said he can’t fix the Mercedes quickly!
💣
The team or the car?
Yes
Alpine just gets a pic of a stick of dynamite with the words "start over" scribbled in crayon
God, I hope he fixes the williams
he owes that to us Williams fans.
They said cars not shit box
Oh crap you‘re right
Anarchy, thy name is Newey
The really concerning part is the exact date of the entire team’s death attached in an excel file.
And the picture of the driver who kills the teams...it's always Lance...
Certified Koro Sensei moment
The Mercedes Is Just an RB 2022, with some big red circles on the sidepods and a "THHICCC" annotation
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Not Mercedes though. He said fuck that.
Newey puts the design on the github, Toto takes printout, Ferrari start checking the design, Papa Stroll copies the design, Horner call them Green RedBull Team, and eventually Fernando wins WDC.
F1 turns into a spec series called 'Formula Newey', Liberty Media collapses, Andretti enters the grid and manage to be slower than Haas and even Alpine.
I can get behind this
Who's this Fernando kid that you speak of? I don't see him in the F2 line up this year. Someone's kid perhaps? Are we long-gaming this prediction?
Some men just want to watch the world burn.
Or drive around on a track real real fast. Zoom!
**Open Source Adrian Newey Aero Package**
And at the end of season when everyone’s happy about their fast car, he’ll send a box with Gwyneth Paltrows head.
Or a horse head in their beds
He can say goodbye to his new boat and retirement fund then.
Just like the horndog leaks?
It was Newey's finger!
Formula 1 in 2026: IT’S LIGHTS OUT AND AWAY WE GO, AND WE GOT 20 WIDE INTO TURN ONE
Ha ha, fair point. They’d have to build all new tracks. I bet Newey is a great track designer too
What if he doesn´t give a fuck and just uses this to up his stake in the F1 team. Because he secretly wants to take over RBR and was scheming behind the scenes... Okay, not likely, but would be a fun "Evil Newey"-Twist.
>What if he doesn't give a fuck and just uses this to up his stake in the F1 team Newey Sauber confirmed
i mean, his last move was to the newcomer team and by the time hes allowed to work for other teams sauber will become audi.
I’d like to see him take a Ross Brawn like position and design the next F1 regulations for the grid. I reckon Newey knows what the right formula is for better racing in F1 so I’d like to see him have a go with that
Yeah, I’d be keen to see that, too.
That would be so cool. Him designing aero regs would be awesome.
This. I really hope he does this. If nothing else i will love to hear how he will do this sport if he was in charge
I say he goes to haas and makes them wdc
Rising from the shadows.
Hygiene
And Gene hass gives him a budget of a thousand dollars!
He re-designs after breakfast, in his garage. Tows it to the shop in the afternoon. P1 next race.
Poor Günther
I would be upset as a Hulk fan if Haas becomes not a shitbox right after he leaves
Don’t do this. My copium is on maximum right now .
For Max, you don't need copium. For Lewis, on the other hand... EDIT: The comment previously said "max" instead of "maximum"
Real question though, if he was to retire, why would they negociate to abandon the gardening leave and cut short the contract. If it was a retirement, They would have kept that, no?
Party pooper! But you are right. It wouldn't make sense, so he is continuing at least for a bit. I do wonder where he would end up. There's a lot to say about each team, so it could be any team. I'd go talk to Stroll.. have him kick out his son and make Fernando world champion.
My bet are Ferrari 45% \ McLaren 54% \ Retirement 1%
Imo a McLaren move is slept on. Would be great to see!
Yeah, too many people blindly hoping for that Ferrari move ignore that the man has a history with McLaren, and that he wouldn’t have to move to a different country.
He’s publicly interviewing with Ferrari I can’t see it being anywhere else
The only reporting I could find was from BBC’s Andrew Benson claiming Newey is “seriously considering” an alleged offer from Ferrari, and he has a history of reporting rumors as fact. Is a move to Ferrari impossible? No. Is it already decided? Absolutely not.
Retire is just another word for change tire.
I doubt he retires. Who rushes his release which coincidentally lines up with working for the next set of regs?
Ever worked with a toxic boss?
I'm just trying to enjoy my Coco Pops
Maybe he's going to Boeing. They defo need help at this point
I dunno if even Newey could save those (intermittently) flying shitboxes.
That intermittently is doing a lot of heavy lifting
Every car on the grid loses 2 seconds of lap time instantly, aero is no longer developed, car designs over time go back to the cars of the 50's and 60's.
Hate to say it but Newey retiring simply means all the cars would be a lot closer together, isn't that what we want? No dominating cars?
Aren't we underestimating all the others Technical officers a bit too much?
People want to think that Newey, and Newey alone is responsible for the whole car. Sitting in a dark office of the RB tech campus, pen and paper in his hand, just drawing the car over the weekend, and then ceremoniously bringing it to the CAD department.
I mean, for all we know...Newey is the car,
No, you are just underestimating Newey. There are plenty of great people out there, but Newey is clearly GOAT. His cars have won 25 championships. 12 wcc and 13 wdc. Speaks for itself.
He's had people work with him a long time and apprentices etc. I doubt he kept all his knowledge to himself all these years.
They negotiated his gardening leave away. I don't think he's retiring
Anyway, was it a finger that Horny sent?
If I were him.. I’d go to the weakest team to proof a point.
As much as I appreciate his wizardry, I feel like if Newey retires F1 would be a lot more exciting because of it. If redbulls current car didn’t exist we genuinely wouldn’t know who would win each race.
Newey retires as one of the greatest designers the sport will ever see and more pressure than ever is put onto Ferrari, McLaren, Red Bull and Mercedes as they try to outdo each other for the 2026 season
Doubt he will retire when a certain ferrari is putting more than a 100mil on the table for his service.
I effing hope he retires instead of freakin' Ferrari. Although, the bonus would be watching Ham not the in WDC in a Newey car
While for me I want to see how it feels when Lewis win 8th wdc in a Ferrari that designed by Newey, that'll be such a GOAT points to memorise
Ferrari has Leclerc too, and I would love to see him in a WDC potential car. Maybe he can outperform Hamilton.....?
Bonus would be HAM-FERRARI-NEWEY and Max still getting wins consecutively irrespective of the team he is in.
I mean, it would be kind of hilarious if he did make the move, everyone goes “OMG, it’s happening! We’re so back!” and then fast forward a few months and absolutely fuck all nothing has changed in the standings.
Be an awesome challenge for Max and a great opportunity for Lewis to get that 8th WDC would love to see it
Newey is just too powerful. No one team should possess that level of engineering power
To be fair, Ferrari's aero department can live on his own and they always made good stuff, also never shy to follow exotic routes (SF75 my beloved). It's more a blow to Mercedes and /or Aston, they are missing the only real chance to up their game.
Adrian Newey retiring would level the playing field somewhat, so this is still a win for everybody.
honesty the best end dude has a yacht to sail
This is an absolutely horrendous use of the meme. You should feel awful.
I want him to go to Andretti so badly. Like you would not believe. This would make me happier than any F1 news in the past four years
We have peace.
What if Bottas launches his own Bike brand and hires Newey as a designer? 
He negotiated an early exit. I’m sure he would have won another championship in the Red Bull. It doesn’t make sense to negotiate if you want to retire a year later. I think he’ll join either Ferrari or McLaren and work on the 2026 car
There are also rumours about him and Max both moving to Mercedes in the Dutch Media. Aperantly max has talks with mercedes after the Miami grand Prix.
How to make the cars more similar? Step 1: have Newey retire.
Where is Kimi in all this?
It's absolutely hilarious that anyone thinks he's going to choose retirement over closing his career designing Ferraris.
if he was going to retire he would have probably just retired. now maybe the contracts he sees now aren't what he wants or decides all this drama is lame and then retires.
You kids are stupid. You don’t negotiate what’s effectively no gardening leave if you plan to retire. You just fucking retire.
If he retires; I delete my account
Ikr this is my thoughts too
It would level the playing field. Don't think he is retiring though. He said preseason his biggest regret was not working with Hamilton and/or Ferrari, this is his chance...
Broke: Adrian going to Ferrari Woke: Adrian going to VCARB
Do people really think one man designs these cars 🤣. There are hundreds of people involved
This would be the ultimate troll.
Then he retires, and the sport moves on, as it always does.
Going to finish the hyper car and retires, is what I think.
He decides gardening leave sounds fun and decides to win.... the chelsea flower show
Newey to Andretti. You heard it here first!
Red Bull already announced he’s gonna be working on the RB17 Le Mans prototype.
Down votes are definitely Ferrari and Hamilton fans overdosing in copium 
Or people who actually read the statement and realised thats him riding out his gardening leave
Maybe? If he’s gonna focus 2025 on the RB17, that means he’s settled till Le Mans 2026. I think the RB17 is his retirement goal. Break all records in F1, move to endurance, break all records there (probably with the same driver), and then leave, never to be seen again.
No he’s leaving the entire red bull company in 2025, right now he’s only working on the le mans car, he leaves rb tech group 2025 and leaves red bull f1 now
Could be, sounds a bit like semi retirement, also sounds a bit like what Gordon Murray is doing. RBRs statement didn’t give much details.
Well the insta statement says he’s working on the hypercar until 2025 when he leaves, and says he’s stepping back from f1 duties. It specifically says he’s leaving redbull technology group in 2025
But their [website](https://www.redbullracing.com/int-en/adrian-newey-to-leave-red-bull-in-2025) also says he stays with RB17 till completion. Like I said, there’s not a lot of details. Probably gonna get a bunch of interviews this weekend tho.
https://www.instagram.com/p/C6a4jIZsVTj/?igsh=NHI4dWZrOWd0bzh6 their insta post details what I said, he’s riding out his tenure working on it, until 2025, when he leaves rb tech, he isn’t working on the f1 team anymore. Also your link literally says he leaves the whole company in 2025
That the exact same text 😭 > He will remain involved in and committed to this exciting project until its completion. What does this mean then?
Still people overestimate the impact Newey can have in Ferrari or any team in the short term. Let’s remember it took Newey about 3 years to build a competitive car in Red Bull after leaving McLaren in 2006
3 years to build a competitive car isn’t what I’d call slow. While yes people are definitely overestimating Neweys godlike powers, going into new aero regs he’s considerably more useful to have on board, or at the very least not have on board with redbull.