Adrian Newey’s arrival at Aston Martin has seen the team’s wind tunnel personnel ‘respond tremendously’ as excitement kicks in ahead of F1 2026.

Aston Martin secured the services of the most successful technical brain in Formula 1, with Adrian Newey working full steam ahead on the revolutionary 2026 ruleset for his new team.

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Newey left his previous role as Red Bull’s chief technical officer in May 2024, before taking up his new position as managing technical partner at Aston Martin earlier this year.

While the AMR25 hasn’t been hugely competitive this year, the short-term nature of improvements to the 2025 car means Newey’s skills have been deployed to work on the new regulations incoming for ’26, with

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