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Amid speculation on which team Adrian Newey will join next, Newey said he is actually going to step away from F1 for now. Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz, however, points to signs that Newey’s intention is to join another team.
After it was announced that Adrian Newey will leave Red Bull in early 2025, everybody in the Formula 1 world started speculating on where the Briton will end up next.
The main candidate appears to be Ferrari, but the teams being discussed are also Mercedes, Aston Martin, McLaren, and even Williams.
Newey, however, said he feels tired, and plans to go sailing with his family for now, before deciding on whether he even wants to continue in F1.
Despite this, Sky Sports’ Ted Kravitz believes the circumstances surrounding Newey’s Red Bull exit, point to his desire to eventually join another team.
“That he’s going or might take a year out and sail the world or go campervanning around Europe with his delightful wife Amanda is neither here nor there,” Kravitz said.
“But the strange thing about it is that he had a contract to the end of 2025. Then he had a year’s non-compete clause, and a gardening leave cause clause, to the end of 2026.
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“So, if he was just retiring and going on holidays and going on walkabout and going sailing, then he wouldn’t have minded what his gardening leave period said – it makes no difference to him.
“But clearly, he wanted to negotiate that down – which he did with the help of Eddie Jordan, who’s now his manager.
“He’s negotiated, and how Christian Horner and Helmut Marko and whoever is in charge of these things at Red Bull allowed Adrian Newey to successfully negotiate an early release from his gardening leave clause, I don’t know.
“But he did and all credit to him, well done! EJ has still got the negotiation skills.
“Now Adrian can work for somebody else, another Formula 1 team or anyone else that he wants to, pretty much from the day that he leaves Red Bull in April 2025. Well done, Adrian. We’ll see what happens.
“That’s the big question that everybody is asking – not how much they will be hurt by his leaving, clearly they will be hurt by his leaving, but why Red Bull let him go so easily,” the Briton concluded.
