"Adrian Newey has a nasty habit of being involved with multiple title-winning efforts" - F1 pundit on importance of Aston Martin's latest signing

Former F1 driver and pundit Martin Brundle remarked on Adrian Newey's involvement in multiple championship-winning teams throughout his career at the pinnacle of motorsport. The 65-year-old has been heavily linked with the Aston Martin F1 team since his departure from Red Bull was announced, and the signing has been announced today, ahead of the Azerbaijan GP.

The aero wizard had worked for teams like Williams, McLaren, and Leyton House before joining Red Bull in 2006, taking them to seven drivers and six constructors championships in his 19-year stint with them.

Speaking with Sky Sports, Brundle spoke about Adrian Newey's impending move to Aston Martin:

"He has a nasty habit of being involved with multiple title-winning chassis and team efforts, won 12 Constructors and 13 Drivers, and he is known as a bit of a genius in the business. He tends to bring success along with him. If you want to have Adrian with you, you need to have a certain amount of resources and control to make the best of his skills.

"But also we have 2026 coming up which Adrian himself describes as the biggest step change in F1 history due to the chassis, aerodynamics, and the engine all changing at the same time and he's a man you would want onboard at that time."

Adrian Newey announced his exit from the Austrian team ahead of this year's Miami GP and was reportedly a target of outfits like Ferrari and McLaren.

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When the Red Bull team boss emphasized to Adrian Newey

Red Bull team principal Christian Horner while commending Adrian Newey had stated the latter "lived in the matrix" and spoke about his time with the aero wizard for 19 years.

The Brit said in 2022 (according to Sky Sports),

"He lives in the matrix. He's been the conductor of the technical orchestra for all these years now. He's still very hands-on, he's still at his drawing board.

"I think it's probably the only drawing board in Formula 1, I had to argue with Ron Dennis to wrestle it out of McLaren. Obviously highs and lows during all these years but it's always been fun. It's always been about the racing."

Meanwhile, ever since it was announced that Adrian Newey would be leaving Red Bull in early 2024, the team's performance has been on a downward slope, compared to their dominant 2022 and 2023 campaigns.

But Horner was adamant that Newey's departure from the team was not linked with the downfall in performance of the RB20 ever since the Miami GP as he believed that "one man's input could never be so dramatic so quickly."

The reigning world champions find themselves just eight points ahead of McLaren in the constructors' championship, having scored 446 points as compared to the Woking-based outfit's 438, and have failed to win a race since the Spanish GP in late June.