Newey has pretty much accomplished everything there is in F1 and he is being paid very well at RBR especially if we include the number of championship bonuses he must have earned over the year. At 65, he is likely to retire from F1 at the peak of his career with record breaking RB19, RB20 and RB21 instead of sacrificing his golden years to take on another mammoth task of trying to win another championship a new organization.

If we consider the timeline, by the time AN leave RBR, the 2026 cars will be on the grid and there will be nothing much AN can influence in the new team until there is a major regulation change. By then he will be in his 70s.

If he quit at his peak, he will be remembered as GOAT and will forever be part of RBR. Personally I would like to see AN joining FIA in the technical regulation department. For sure he will bring back the V10 engine.

CHT wrote:Newey has pretty much accomplished everything there is in F1 and he is being paid very well at RBR especially if we include the number of championship bonuses he must have earned over the year. At 65, he is likely to retire from F1 at the peak of his career with record breaking RB19, RB20 and RB21 instead of sacrificing his golden years to take on another mammoth task of trying to win another championship a new organization.

If we consider the timeline, by the time AN leave RBR, the 2026 cars will be on the grid and there will be nothing much AN can influence in the new team until there is a major regulation change. By then he will be in his 70s.

If he quit at his peak, he will be remembered as GOAT and will forever be part of RBR. Personally I would like to see AN joining FIA in the technical regulation department. For sure he will bring back the V10 engine.

Great thoughts. I’d love to see Newey as part of F1 technical regulations. He could set better regulations for everyone. But I can’t imagine F1 can pay him the $s rival teams could. Perhaps it could be his way of giving back to the sport?


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I just don’t see him wanting to start over again. He is getting up there in age and if he wants to enjoy his wealth, he’s running out of time. Move everything to Italy and start again? Nah. Gardening for at least a year, then integration and building a team around him — he’s looking at mid to late 70’s at least before he could even think about leaving such a huge endeavor all with zero guarantee of success. Lewis is getting old and already showing signs of deterioration. I just don’t see it. He should go to the FIA. Bring sense back into the regs and make the sport as a whole, better. That’s a way to complete a legacy.

From what I read, Newey has a contract with RBR till end 2025, and if we add 1 year of gardening leave, he will only be available to join a new team in 2027 at age 68
Without a major technical shake up, there will be not much AN can do to make a slow cars become quicker. I honestly think he should retire and write a new book about how to design RB19 and RB20.

Well there’s hulkenburg leaving haas and to sauber/audi. Which means who is going to leave sauber/audi next year.

Going to get spicy next few weeks I think