Aston Martin already praising 'hungry' Newey's impact at the squad
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Adrian Newey began his tenure at Aston Martin last week. Speaking to GPblog and other media in Melbourne, the British racing team's new boss, Andy Cowell, shared his thoughts on the renowned designer’s initial moments with the team. Cowell can't speak highly enough of the legendary designer, who is already hard at work for his new team.
Cowell speaks of 'joy' working alongside Newey
Cowell began, "His first day was exactly, as you say, very low-key. You know, he's an engineer. He's walked in. He's picking up the 2026 regulations, understanding those regulations, getting into the detail of the work that we've been doing, and contributing to ideas, I guess drawing boards don't need firing up, do they? They don't need plugging in. They just work. And it's it's a joy to work with Adrian. His experience is vast. His hunger is huge."
The new Aston Martin team boss continued, "Just wonderful conversations about making vast race cars and the compromises that you have to make, the trade-offs that you need to make, and building up good working relationships with the engineers that have been pushing the concept to date."
Cowell quietly confident: 'Laughing to myself'
According to Cowell, Newey is even already coming up with ideas for the direction in which the team should build Aston Martin's future. "There's already a few areas, I'm smiling to myself. I won't give you the details because I don't want our opponents to know. But, there are a couple of areas where already you're saying, can we just push that in this direction? Can we just do that? And engineers, mechanical engineers and composite engineers are looking at it and going, oh, yeah. Okay. We'll have a go. And I think that's the that's the Adrian effect."
'Newey drawing layouts for the '26 car'
The Aston Martin team boss was then asked whether it is still a possibility that Newey will also work on the 2025 car. To this, he clearly replied, "So far, his focus has been busy drawing layouts on the '26 car."
This article was written in collaboration with Cas van de Kleut
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