{"id":396754,"date":"2025-09-04T08:19:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:19:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396754\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T08:19:14","slug":"newey-in-a-trance-designing-2026-aston-martin-f1-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/396754\/","title":{"rendered":"Newey &#8220;in a trance&#8221; designing 2026 Aston Martin F1 car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/driver\/lance-stroll\/840484\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lance Stroll<\/a> has exuberantly hailed Adrian Newey\u2019s impact on the Aston Martin team, as the legendary engineer contributes to its 2026 Formula 1 car design.<\/p>\n<p>Newey joined Aston Martin on 1 March as a \u2018managing technical partner\u2019 after completing his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/red-bull-racing\/36469\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Red Bull-induced<\/a> gardening leave. The Briton\u00a0has reportedly refrained from giving the current AMR25 any consideration, despite yet another difficult season for the Lawrence Stroll-owned outfit, which lies sixth in the 2025 constructors\u2019 championship without a single podium finish to its name.<\/p>\n<p>Read Also:<\/p>\n<p>Newey has reportedly been focusing on the new technical regulations for 2026, which include active aerodynamics on both wings as well as new power units featuring more reliance on electrical power.<\/p>\n<p>The overhaul is an opportunity for Aston Martin to become a consistent frontrunner for the first time in its 35-year history \u2013 since its founding as Jordan Grand Prix ahead of the 1991 F1 season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAdrian right now I think is in a trance, focused on drawing next year&#8217;s car,\u201d Lance Stroll said. \u201cHe&#8217;s just so passionate and excited about the new regs.<\/p>\n<p>   <img decoding=\"async\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1748860037_147_lance-stroll-aston-martin-raci.jpg\" alt=\"Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Racing, Adrian Newey, Chief Technical Officer of Aston Martin F1\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" loading=\"lazy\"\/> <\/p>\n<p class=\"title\">Lance Stroll, Aston Martin Racing, Adrian Newey, Chief Technical Officer of Aston Martin F1<\/p>\n<p class=\"photographer\">Photo by: Zak Mauger \/ Motorsport Images via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat&#8217;s awesome to see is just how much passion, focus, effort is going into the new regs and the team too, just being in a new environment, a new team, how he&#8217;s just uplifting everyone, and just creating this healthier culture inside of the whole factory \u2013 that&#8217;s pretty awesome to see.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe&#8217;s been doing it for this long and he&#8217;s won more championships than anyone in this paddock, so I guess that says it all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Newey did lead <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/williams\/36474\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Williams<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.autosport.com\/team\/mclaren\/36473\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">McLaren<\/a> and Red Bull to multiple world titles in the past, but it is quite unusual for Stroll to display this level of bullishness and loquacity \u2013 to the extent that he was asked why he had such a big smile when talking about Newey.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBecause I think there&#8217;s not much reason not to smile about Adrian Newey making next year&#8217;s car,\u201d the Canadian replied. \u201cIt&#8217;s all exciting times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this article<\/p>\n<p>Be the first to know and subscribe for real-time news email updates on these topics<\/p>\n<p>    Subscribe to news alerts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lance Stroll has exuberantly hailed Adrian Newey\u2019s impact on the Aston Martin team, as the legendary engineer contributes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396755,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4103],"tags":[971,125825,125824,4199,707,4200,9258,137037,79,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-396754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-f1","8":"tag-aston-martin-racing","9":"tag-circuit-zandvoort","10":"tag-dutch-gp","11":"tag-f1","12":"tag-formula-1","13":"tag-formula1","14":"tag-lance-stroll","15":"tag-newey-in-a-trance-designing-2026-aston-martin-f1-car-stroll","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-uk","18":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115145052339207825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396754","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=396754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396755"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}