Adrian Newey is at the top of Aston Martin’s wish list, so much so that they would have walked the talk at Aston Martin and offered Newey a contract worth millions.
In F1 history, Adrian Newey is personally responsible for numerous F1 cars with which drivers and teams managed to become world champions. Sebastian Vettel won no fewer than four world titles in a row and Max Verstappen also won three world titles in a row together with Red Bull.
In recent years, several teams have tried to buy Adrian Newey away from Red Bull, but so far this has not been successful. There were several rumors about Ferrari trying to get Adrian Newey to make the switch, but it was not even close to success (Christian Horner reveals: It was half an hour before Adrian Newey signed with Ferrari).
But at Aston Martin they would now do everything in their power to get Adrian Newey to switch from Red Bull. Lawrence Stroll would not only like to take advantage of the ‘unrest’ at Red Bull, he is also taking out his money bag. In Jeddah, Lawrence Stroll is said to have personally approached Adrian Newey.
According to the British ‘Autosport’, Aston Martin’s contract proposal for Adrian Newey would even come close to the contracts of the highest-paid F1 pilots on the grid. That would amount to about 40 to 50 million per year, you read that right.
Whether Aston Martin and Lawrence Stroll will succeed in getting Adrian Newey to switch from Red Bull remains to be seen…