Alonso receives an Adrian Newey-designed Aston Martin

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F1 Fernando Alonso Valkyrie Aston Martin designed by Adrian Newey
4 September at 20:30
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  • Jeroen Immink

GPblog reported earlier this week that Adrian Newey will join Aston Martin next season. There, after working for 20 seasons at Red Bull Racing, the master designer may once again build a car to compete for championships. And that is not the only thing Newey designed. In fact, Fernando Alonso got to sit in a hypercar designed by the Briton.

Alonso enjoys different Aston Martin car

Two-time Formula One world champion reacted like a kid in a sweet shop when he got behind the wheel of the hypercar. "It's hard to put into words how much I have been looking forward to this day. To sit at the wheel of my own Valkyrie; one that I have worked on designing so closely with the team at Q by Aston Martin is certainly a day to remember. Valkyrie truly is an F1 car for the road, with so much of the knowledge and technology taken from all the experience Aston Martin has on track and I can't wait to hit the road," Alonso revealed.

In all likelihood, Aston Martin will soon announce that Newey will join the British racing team. "Adrian and I have been talking not only for months but actually for years. Adrian is clearly the most talented and gifted individual in F1 based on his track record and history. So I'd be very excited for Adrian to join our team, as I think every other F1 team on the grid would feel exactly the same," Lawrence Stroll already revealed to Bloomberg.

This article was written in collaboration with Kada Sarkozi


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