Ferrari, Adrian Newey dream fades: Aston Martin one step away

The dream of the historic engagement è very close to fading.

Adrian Newey will not be landing at Ferrari. For weeks the feeling had been swirling that the marriage between Maranello and the legendary engineer in his last years at Red Bull (but also dominant at Williams and McLaren) was destined to jump, but in the meantime the confirmations are becoming more and more insistent. Indeed, his sì to Aston Martin now appears imminent.

Confirming this is none other than the 'BBC', according to which only the official announcement would be missing before Newey starts again from that very Aston Martin that over the summer overtook Ferrari and all the other pretenders to the most famous left hand in Formula 1 history. There would even be a five-year contract on the plate, which would guarantee the British engineer up to 30 million pounds until 2029.

The day of the white smoke could be next Tuesday, when Aston Martin itself is expected to announce Newey’s hire at a press conference at its Silverstone headquarters. There would moreover be a further line of continuity with the Red Bull parenthesis, since the team owned by Lawrence Stroll è is set to be equipped with Honda engines from 2026.

Nothing to do then for Ferrari, which, moreover, already seemed to have surrendered to the idea of having to give up the services of Adrian Newey for some time. "We talked to each other, è true, but è it is likely that his ideas were different from what I had in mind for him. Maybe someday we will reach a point of understanding, but the results of a team never depend on individuals", Frederic Vasseur, team principal of the Cavallino, had said in late August in an interview granted to 'L'Equipe'.