2023-05-10 12:18:37
The energy drinkers may have an unattainable car and have made their best start in history, as they have acknowledged on several occasions, but genius clearly has a great influence on all of this. Adrian Neweywho apparently recently received some offers to leave Red Bull and start a new project with another team.
Having worked in Formula 1 during the first era of ground effect cars, the British designer has a wealth of experience with this type of car, which he has put back into practice with the 2022 regulations. Not surprisingly, for therefore, that some of his rivals have tried to get hold of him.
F1-Insider.comfor example, reported that shortly before Newey signed a contract extension with Red Bull, got a phone call from a former employee of the Austrian team who is now a personal assistant to the Mercedes team manager, This is Wolff.
Said employee had the clear mission of somehow lure the technical expert to Mercedes on behalf of his boss. But Adrian Newey politely declined that offer. and instead he signed to extend his contract for a few more years with Red Bull.
Upon hearing the news, Helmut Marko dedicated some nice words to his compatriot from Mercedes: “It seems that Mr. Wolff does not really believe that his employees can cope with his car problems“.
But Mercedes is not the only team trying to weaken the reigning world champions like this. Ferrari is trying to use the transfer of Laurent Mekies to AlphaTauri, also without success for the moment. It is said that the Italians would let Mekies go sooner if the Austrian structure gave them three high-level aerodynamicists in exchange.
One of them seems to be the current technical director of the team and Newey’s right-hand man, Pierre Wache. Marko also reacted to this request from the Maranello team: “Everyone wants Ferrari to be competitive, but it doesn’t work like that. It’s not an Arab bazaar. In addition to the fact that Waché does not want to change scenery, we do not accept his conditions “.
Thus, Ferrari and Mercedes have tried to steal the main technicians of Red Bull, but they have failed in the attempt and now they have to look for other solutions to try to reach the performance of the energy drink team, which seems unattainable this year.
Adrian Newey, Technical Director of Red Bull Racing in F1
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