Aston Martin struggles in 2025 F1 season, but Adrian Newey fully committed to 2026 project. Despite Aston Martin’s struggles, Adrian Newey remains fully focused on the 2026 car project.

Aston Martin’s start to the season has not met expectations. The Silverstone-based team, after already facing an uninspiring 2024, has begun the new season in much the same vein as the previous one.

If the present looks bleak, the future appears bright—especially after the arrival of Adrian Newey (and also Enrico Cardile from Ferrari), which ensures performance solidity for Lawrence Stroll’s team.

If the future is tempting, the present—as mentioned—is not exciting. In fact, it’s rather disheartening. That’s why several insiders thought Adrian Newey might give concrete help to the team to solve the problems shown right from the start by the AMR25 cars of Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll.

At Aston Martin, however, the idea is very different. Adrian Newey is indeed a weapon, but one intended for use starting in 2026. The genius from Stratford-upon-Avon has been tasked with studying the new regulations and laying the foundations for the car that will debut at the Barcelona tests scheduled for the end of January 2026.

“Adrian began working with us in March, so there was a period in which he got up to speed on the regulations, on the conceptual work we had done in the previous two months, and there are tight deadlines to meet for the release of the monocoque and transmission details,” said Andy Cowell.

“So, to prepare a car for [the January tests], some decisions have to be made a bit earlier, and clearly everything is new, there are no carryovers. So there’s a lot of work, and Adrian has focused on that.”

“His thoughts are largely focused on the tools we are using, rather than on direct performance aspects of the 2025 car.”

Newey has already had a chance to familiarize himself with the Silverstone facilities. His first impression of the expanded headquarters following the arrival of Stroll’s group was more than positive.

“It’s important that Adrian understands the tools we have, their precision in predicting what will happen on track. Adrian was very complimentary about the new headquarters and made positive comments about the wind tunnel and how everything is organized,” Andy Cowell continued – “Of course, this pushes us to improve how we operate in the tunnel… He has ideas on how to improve practically everything, and that’s the beauty of Adrian’s competitive drive.” – he concluded.