{"id":126826,"date":"2025-05-24T02:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126826\/"},"modified":"2025-05-24T02:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-24T02:27:11","slug":"aston-martin-are-not-good-enough-for-max-verstappen-admits-adrian-newey-as-revered-f1-designer-urges-his-new-team-to-up-their-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/126826\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Martin are NOT good enough for Max Verstappen admits Adrian Newey as revered F1 designer urges his new team to up their game"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"mol-bullets-with-font\">\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Adrian Newey joined Aston Martin in March after 20 years of success at Red Bull<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong>Max Verstappen could leave but the Aston Marin maestro has ruled out a reunion<\/strong><\/li>\n<li class=\"\"><strong><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/prf.hn\/click\/camref:1101l4cb3H\">Sign up to DAZN <\/a>to watch the Club World Cup\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"author-section byline-plain\">By <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/profile-405\/jonathan-mcevoy.html\" class=\"author\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JONATHAN MCEVOY<\/a> <a rel=\"nofollow noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/follow?screen_name=JonathanMcEvoy7&amp;tw_p=followbutton\" class=\"twitter-follow-author\"><\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"byline-section\"> Published:  17:30 EDT, 23 May 2025   |  Updated:  17:30 EDT, 23 May 2025   <\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\"><a style=\"font-weight: bold;\" target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sport\/max-verstappen\/index.html\" id=\"mol-43d1ea90-3813-11f0-8d1f-1b80da4f4afc\" rel=\"noopener\">Max Verstappen<\/a> joining Aston Martin is no more than a pipe dream, according to the guru who designed his world championship-winning cars.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Adrian Newey made the declaration as he spoke publicly for the first time since starting at Aston in March, following his move from Red Bull on a \u00a3100million five-year deal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Max is clearly a phenomenal talent and he\u2019s a supreme competitor,\u2019 said Newey ahead of this weekend&#8217;s Monaco Grand Prix, the showpiece event his cars have won on 11 occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018Part of that means Max likes to break things down to a simple equation \u2014 in this case choosing the team he believes will deliver the fastest car. So, if we are ever to attract Max, the first thing is to make a fast car.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">When will that be? \u2018I\u2019ve got absolutely no idea,\u2019 said Newey.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Pressed again on the prospect of being reunited with Verstappen, he added: \u2018There\u2019s no point in pipe-dreaming.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-f55e198927af8e1e\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98702641-0-image-m-56_1748031178201.jpg\" height=\"395\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Max\u00a0Verstappen is on a \u00a360m annual retainer at Red Bull until 2028 but could leave in 2027\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Max\u00a0Verstappen is on a \u00a360m annual retainer at Red Bull until 2028 but could leave in 2027<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-e82b3a3d8b94e700\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98702583-0-image-a-57_1748031191938.jpg\" height=\"423\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Adrian Newey\u00a0turned down Ferrari and a host of other suitors to move to Aston Martin in March\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Adrian Newey\u00a0turned down Ferrari and a host of other suitors to move to Aston Martin in March<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" id=\"i-a2a7e212f16ce8d8\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/98702689-0-image-m-59_1748031202625.jpg\" height=\"605\" width=\"634\" alt=\"Fernando Alonso steers his Aston Martin around Monaco's famous street track during practice\" class=\"blkBorder img-share\" style=\"max-width:100%\" loading=\"lazy\" \/>   <\/p>\n<p class=\"imageCaption\">Fernando Alonso steers his Aston Martin around Monaco&#8217;s famous street track during practice<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Verstappen is on a \u00a360m annual retainer at Red Bull until 2028 (though there are opt-out clauses) and has told the team he wants to stay put, certainly for next year. But with new regulations in 2026, he is likely to assess how Red Bull adapt. He could potentially move in 2027, with Mercedes and Aston Martin possible refuges, but sources close to Verstappen indicate that if the 27-year-old were to jump ship he would only do so once in his career.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">Newey, who has been working relentlessly at his drawing board over the past couple of months, is assessing how to improve Aston\u2019s performance overall. He singled out the simulator as a problem, revealing it does not correlate to track performance and would take two years to rectify \u2014 again hardly music to Verstappen\u2019s ears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">But Newey, 66, added: \u2018There are a lot of very good people. We just need to get them working together in a slightly better-organised way. That\u2019s simply a result of the roots of the team \u2014 as Jordan, that became Force India, that became Racing Point.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">\u2018It was always a small but over-performing team and has gone in a very short space of time into a very big team.\u2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"mol-para-with-font\">In practice, Verstappen was only 10th-fastest, with local boy Charles Leclerc top in both sessions for Ferrari.<\/p>\n<p>                    Share or comment on this article:<br \/>\n                        Aston Martin are NOT good enough for Max Verstappen admits Adrian Newey as revered F1 designer urges his new team to up their game<\/p>\n<p>        <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Newey joined Aston Martin in March after 20 years of success at Red Bull Max Verstappen could&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126827,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[92,4199,707,4200,19584,1073,93,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-126826","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-dailymail","9":"tag-f1","10":"tag-formula-1","11":"tag-formula1","12":"tag-formulaone","13":"tag-max-verstappen","14":"tag-sport","15":"tag-sports","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114560450192270643","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126826"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126826\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}