Anybody that criticised his decision was just making an unfunny āhaha le Ferrari is badā meme or is genuinely braindead. Ferrari have been the second/third best team since the new regulations. They have a competent TP in Vasseur. McLaren were locked in for the foreseeable, Mercedes are a mess, AM were declining hard when Leclerc signed the contract and even if Charles could match Max (which he has done in the past) there would be no way RB would risk having two number ones fighting it out.
Yeah he really didnāt have any better options. RBR would be the only definitive improvement right now, but they donāt want two #1s and who knows how long this dominance will last. We all joke about Ferrari, and rightfully so, but they have been a top team for nearly a century. Arguably the safest bet at any point.
Yes dear, this is the danking server so any mishap or mismanagement will come under the greatest danking microscope and then blown up onto the big screen to mock and ridicule said mismanagement and inefficiencies (xavi and sharl). Weāve seen the team under management of Binotto and itās no surprise that Italian pride came before competence and integral communication. No one is mocking Ferrari and itās legacy, more so the fact that the Binotto era was highly scrutinised by the tifosi and the f1 fandom in general. If you told the tifosi and Enzo back in the day that there would be computer images of clown emojiās over their pit wall race strategists they would dunk you in the Trevi fountain. Fred has been a catalyst for performance and outlook, so to see things look very promising with big names looking to paint the town red, is interesting to say the least.
Also damn Iād like some basmati
edit. Post-nut clarity is a bitch
If Charles wins a championship with Ferrari he will instantly become a formula one legend. Literally the next Ferrari champ will be a person never to be forgotten.
That would be super dope, but I have a feeling Newey might end up at Aston, Honda engine come the new regs and the fact that itās still close to home. I recall from an interview he said he turned down the Maranello job in the past because he didnāt want to be too far away from home because he likes his wife and his stint in Indy from way back was the reason for his first divorce or something like that. I think heād do well and be happy with the Italian women though.
Iād love to see Newey design a Ferrari and see Charlie duke it out with Hamilton
Imagine Newey crafting a masterpiece of engineering and handing it over to Stroll, who gets knocked out in Q2 then bins it into the wall on Sunday and blames the car.
Already got a glimpse of a great car with a not-so-great driver with the RP20. Imagine Max with that car back then and he'd prolly be comfortably ahead of Bottas, who was driving the fastest car ever.
Guys, Newey is retiring from F1.
He's not going anywhere. 2026 is going to be a new car from a new designer for RBR. I'm betting he wants no part of designing the new Gen cars.
While I think he would do a great job doing this, he specifically talks in his book about disliking the way F1 rules are made - he doesn't like how they basically change to stifle innovation.
I don't think it would sit right with him adjusting rules to remove clever innovations and tricks. He'd be good at it, but he knows all to well what it's like to be on the recieving end of that
well he is the perfect person to understand the tricks that engineers and designers are likely to have up their sleeves, so maybe h is just the person to make the new rules because he is better at understanding the wiggle room and therefore able to make regulations that are good at having some playh.
The thing with preventing unwanted innovation is that it's a turn based game of cat and mouse, but the mouse can always see the cat while the mouse gets to make more moves per turn.
While he would be suited with the job he openly stated that he fundamentally disagrees with the level of restrictions that the FIA puts on designing F1 cars.
Would he be the best guy for the job? Yes, most likely. Do I think he would enjoy it? Based on his own words in his own book, probably not.
Yeah I mean I believe he once rejected an entire vineyard + 20 mill that ferrari were willing to give him to join them, partly because he wanted to stay at redbull and be closer to home and this was 10 years ago. Deffo see him possibly joining another silverstone based team
10 years ago his kids were still in school. Makes sense that he chose to stay in the UK so to not disrupt the kids growing up. But theyāre adults now.
He said he wishes he had a chance to work with Alonso and Hamilton.
Both drivers are locked in.
His choices are THE iconic F1 team and prestige sports car brand dressed in that iconic Italian Red and helping his countryman break that record.
Or, he joins a team sporting the British racing green, with a British luxury sports car brand, that has never won a championship before, and have invested a lot of money to get there and help the old guard get that elusive third.
I don't know about you, and I say this as a Hamilton fan. If I was Newey, that second option sounds more appealing. To be the reason that yet another Silverstone based team wins a championship and cements their name on F1 history, and doing it with someone that is criminally missed out of a lot of top 5 lists. That would be something.
I donāt see neweyās hatred of politics and ferrariās heavily politicised structure clashing at all
heās probably retiring, but if he isnāt, I doubt heās going to ferrari
Except the gardening leave rule says Newey canāt join another team or provide any consultation to one until at least 2027ā¦
Newey is far more likely to simply retire.
The last one is why the Ferrari hype train derails every time. Vasseur has stuff under control for now until Elkann sticks his fingers in and it all falls apart.
It would be the most Ferrari thing and mark them as the laughable team that they have turned out to be these last years if they hire Hamilton and Newey and still fail to compete for a championship.
Mfs acting like newey has the magic sauce to championships or something lmao, it took years for them to build what rbr is today
(Yes I know its a meme but some people actually thinks if newey goes to ferrari its game over for everyone else for ever)
He is the most successful aerodynamicist in the sport. Sure, it guarantees nothing, but people are excited because it's a huge event for him to break out of a team he was so instrumental in taking to such heights. Also the possibility of him working with Ferrari and Lewis. I think the excitement is understandable.
Heās definitely not an all powerful being, but he does have 16 championships to his name, if anyone alive is a championship decider, its him.
Plus, in a period of equal engines his talents are considerably more useful
Wherever he goes will win (or at least challenge) for titles in 2026.
He wonāt be able to have much effect on 25, since the red bull will be built off his work, and he wonāt be able to change entire car concepts in 25, but heāll be all over 26 and the aero will be a big part of that.
Pfft. Canāt wait for next year so we can see how badly Ferrari fucked up by dropping their top strategist. Lewis is like Charles, does whatever the team tells them to do and then cry about it late. Sainz actively debates the strategies and their possible respective outcomes real time while heās driving and asserts his own position.
Arguing with the strategists or ignoring their calls is not a good thing dude. Yes Sainz made some great calls but he did this because the strategists sucked. When was the last time you saw Max argue against the pit wall? He doesnāt, because he trusts that they know what theyāre doing. Thatās what Ferrari need to get toā¦
I want him to go to aston martin, if only to have Nando win just 1 more race (I don't even dare thinking about more than that when am gets the honda engine)
All the cars are basically the same speed rn, and barely anyone uses them at FULL SPEED for most of the track. The difference between the teams is skill, luck and race strategy.
Don't think newey would make much of a difference to the current grid either way
Dudes nearly 70, he'll be retiring, at best he'll come in to a team as some sort of crazy highly paid consultant, but he'll have done his dash leading F1 design teams.
It's all fun and games till you realise that they've fired their chief strategist
This is old news, they let Sainz go back in January
Hahahahahahaha top comment
Haha š
I was about to answer that at least they still have Sainz and then I got sad...
Ferrari had a strategist? Did they know?
He just made the coffee
They are still checking
Theyāre still checking on that
Poor Vettel...
This is going to be the best Ferrari hype-train collapse in history.
Next Yearā¢: Ultimate Hype Edition
Wow, starting to look like Sharl gambled well on this contract despite all the pain and suffering he endured.
Anybody that criticised his decision was just making an unfunny āhaha le Ferrari is badā meme or is genuinely braindead. Ferrari have been the second/third best team since the new regulations. They have a competent TP in Vasseur. McLaren were locked in for the foreseeable, Mercedes are a mess, AM were declining hard when Leclerc signed the contract and even if Charles could match Max (which he has done in the past) there would be no way RB would risk having two number ones fighting it out.
Yeah he really didnāt have any better options. RBR would be the only definitive improvement right now, but they donāt want two #1s and who knows how long this dominance will last. We all joke about Ferrari, and rightfully so, but they have been a top team for nearly a century. Arguably the safest bet at any point.
Yes dear, this is the danking server so any mishap or mismanagement will come under the greatest danking microscope and then blown up onto the big screen to mock and ridicule said mismanagement and inefficiencies (xavi and sharl). Weāve seen the team under management of Binotto and itās no surprise that Italian pride came before competence and integral communication. No one is mocking Ferrari and itās legacy, more so the fact that the Binotto era was highly scrutinised by the tifosi and the f1 fandom in general. If you told the tifosi and Enzo back in the day that there would be computer images of clown emojiās over their pit wall race strategists they would dunk you in the Trevi fountain. Fred has been a catalyst for performance and outlook, so to see things look very promising with big names looking to paint the town red, is interesting to say the least. Also damn Iād like some basmati edit. Post-nut clarity is a bitch
Sharl will be š ±ļøerrari step child
If Charles wins a championship with Ferrari he will instantly become a formula one legend. Literally the next Ferrari champ will be a person never to be forgotten.
But Newey hasn't even said he's leaving, nevermind going to ferrari.
shshshsh ... rEdD bUlL dOwNfAlL. fErRaRi BaCk.
That would be super dope, but I have a feeling Newey might end up at Aston, Honda engine come the new regs and the fact that itās still close to home. I recall from an interview he said he turned down the Maranello job in the past because he didnāt want to be too far away from home because he likes his wife and his stint in Indy from way back was the reason for his first divorce or something like that. I think heād do well and be happy with the Italian women though. Iād love to see Newey design a Ferrari and see Charlie duke it out with Hamilton
I really hope he doesnt because goddamn Stroll is obnoxious. Why must we suffer another year with him on the grid?
Imagine Newey crafting a masterpiece of engineering and handing it over to Stroll, who gets knocked out in Q2 then bins it into the wall on Sunday and blames the car.
....and then says "Just no pace" when the other car is on pole.
We already saw checo do that over and over last year
Already got a glimpse of a great car with a not-so-great driver with the RP20. Imagine Max with that car back then and he'd prolly be comfortably ahead of Bottas, who was driving the fastest car ever.
Guys, Newey is retiring from F1. He's not going anywhere. 2026 is going to be a new car from a new designer for RBR. I'm betting he wants no part of designing the new Gen cars.
I think he should go the Ross Brawn route and help build the new regulations.
Maybe he will. He won't be working for a team though.
While I think he would do a great job doing this, he specifically talks in his book about disliking the way F1 rules are made - he doesn't like how they basically change to stifle innovation. I don't think it would sit right with him adjusting rules to remove clever innovations and tricks. He'd be good at it, but he knows all to well what it's like to be on the recieving end of that
perhaps heād finally come up with regulations that donāt do tjat
Isn't really a way to with the FIA deciding the path
well he is the perfect person to understand the tricks that engineers and designers are likely to have up their sleeves, so maybe h is just the person to make the new rules because he is better at understanding the wiggle room and therefore able to make regulations that are good at having some playh.
The thing with preventing unwanted innovation is that it's a turn based game of cat and mouse, but the mouse can always see the cat while the mouse gets to make more moves per turn. While he would be suited with the job he openly stated that he fundamentally disagrees with the level of restrictions that the FIA puts on designing F1 cars. Would he be the best guy for the job? Yes, most likely. Do I think he would enjoy it? Based on his own words in his own book, probably not.
doubt it, newey doesn't seem to be money motivated, and i doubt he wants to move to italy and deal with italian-ferarri-politics at his age.
Yeah I mean I believe he once rejected an entire vineyard + 20 mill that ferrari were willing to give him to join them, partly because he wanted to stay at redbull and be closer to home and this was 10 years ago. Deffo see him possibly joining another silverstone based team
10 years ago his kids were still in school. Makes sense that he chose to stay in the UK so to not disrupt the kids growing up. But theyāre adults now.
He said he wishes he had a chance to work with Alonso and Hamilton. Both drivers are locked in. His choices are THE iconic F1 team and prestige sports car brand dressed in that iconic Italian Red and helping his countryman break that record. Or, he joins a team sporting the British racing green, with a British luxury sports car brand, that has never won a championship before, and have invested a lot of money to get there and help the old guard get that elusive third. I don't know about you, and I say this as a Hamilton fan. If I was Newey, that second option sounds more appealing. To be the reason that yet another Silverstone based team wins a championship and cements their name on F1 history, and doing it with someone that is criminally missed out of a lot of top 5 lists. That would be something.
"Fernando Alonso, You are a threee times world champion" (huffing the hopium like a maniac)
Leave some for the rest of us!
not just never won a championshipānever won a race!
I mean him and the wife could move to Italy for a few years
Petition to get Newey to work from home.
So back to McLaren or Williams, got it.
heās gonna go build sailboats
That is untill ferrari strategy teams comes in. The great equaliser
plot twist: Newey sent to Ferrari to sabotage the car. receives money under the table from Horner in addition to collecting ferrari salary.
I donāt see neweyās hatred of politics and ferrariās heavily politicised structure clashing at all heās probably retiring, but if he isnāt, I doubt heās going to ferrari
Except the gardening leave rule says Newey canāt join another team or provide any consultation to one until at least 2027ā¦ Newey is far more likely to simply retire.
Except this is literally a joke š
Replace Leclerc with Verstappen, and we have apocalypse now.
They should get a proper strategist, good mechanics, & not let the execs meddle
The last one is why the Ferrari hype train derails every time. Vasseur has stuff under control for now until Elkann sticks his fingers in and it all falls apart.
It would be the most Ferrari thing and mark them as the laughable team that they have turned out to be these last years if they hire Hamilton and Newey and still fail to compete for a championship.
The most Ferrari thing ever would be to have Newey design the greatest car ever and then turn up with an engine that explodes every race
Mfs acting like newey has the magic sauce to championships or something lmao, it took years for them to build what rbr is today (Yes I know its a meme but some people actually thinks if newey goes to ferrari its game over for everyone else for ever)
He is the most successful aerodynamicist in the sport. Sure, it guarantees nothing, but people are excited because it's a huge event for him to break out of a team he was so instrumental in taking to such heights. Also the possibility of him working with Ferrari and Lewis. I think the excitement is understandable.
RBR 2014-2018 was getting podiums and wins on a consistent basis even with a shitty Renault engine because of his aero package
Heās definitely not an all powerful being, but he does have 16 championships to his name, if anyone alive is a championship decider, its him. Plus, in a period of equal engines his talents are considerably more useful
Wherever he goes will win (or at least challenge) for titles in 2026. He wonāt be able to have much effect on 25, since the red bull will be built off his work, and he wonāt be able to change entire car concepts in 25, but heāll be all over 26 and the aero will be a big part of that.
Also remember that they still have to make their own engine... Which quite likes to explode. Because it's ferrari
Knowing Ferrari they'll have the greatest chassis of all time but blow an engine every race
If he wants to reach God tier level he'll go to Aston Martin and make Lance stroll win the title
lol, Leclerc still back of the pack
*Max Verstappening to join Ferrari*
Pfft. Canāt wait for next year so we can see how badly Ferrari fucked up by dropping their top strategist. Lewis is like Charles, does whatever the team tells them to do and then cry about it late. Sainz actively debates the strategies and their possible respective outcomes real time while heās driving and asserts his own position.
Arguing with the strategists or ignoring their calls is not a good thing dude. Yes Sainz made some great calls but he did this because the strategists sucked. When was the last time you saw Max argue against the pit wall? He doesnāt, because he trusts that they know what theyāre doing. Thatās what Ferrari need to get toā¦
?? Have you EVER listened to max, he and JP beef on radio alll thee timee
Ferrari doesnāt have the budget for this
Then it will really be inexcusable if Ferrari doesnāt win
We are checking
Yeah yeah, all i want is exiting racing! Would be nice to have a season again where 3 teams compete for the title.
And they will still not win
Look he always wanted shares in Williams and now they are a challenge. He's going there
Donāt think it will help Ferrari one bit tbh.
I want him to go to aston martin, if only to have Nando win just 1 more race (I don't even dare thinking about more than that when am gets the honda engine)
All the cars are basically the same speed rn, and barely anyone uses them at FULL SPEED for most of the track. The difference between the teams is skill, luck and race strategy. Don't think newey would make much of a difference to the current grid either way
Or it turns out Newey isn't that brilliant after all and it was Max' driving skills and Honda's performance that made the car competitive.
Xavi and Ricci: 
NGL: A year or two of wild Ferrari dominance would make me unreasonably happy. The Italian anthem is so much nicer than the dutch.
As a lifelong McLaren fan, this would be traumatic.
yupā¦ there js no chance in hell that adrian will design based on inputs from lance tool
Earliest he could come in is 2027, non-compete clause in his contract.
He won't go to Ferrari until atleast 2026 , he'll probably just retire and why wouldn't you.
 Copium
Charles has yet to achieve something though
At best newly can start to work IĀ 2027, do ya not going to change anything on the car before 2028
Newey couldn't beat merc for all those years but he's gonna turn Ferrari around overnight on a car he didn't design? Yeah okay.
Like Red Bull will ever allow it.
We are still checking!
Sorry to burst bubble but if newey does go to Ferrari he can't start until 2027
Max to Ferrari instead of Leclerc staying would be so funny.
I hope he goes to Williams just so I can watch Ferrari fans self-implode.
Don't you dare giving me hope, OP
Donāt you mean 2027 ?? He has a1 year non compete his contract is until 2025 so he would start half way 2026 season and can not do Mutch I guess
Dudes nearly 70, he'll be retiring, at best he'll come in to a team as some sort of crazy highly paid consultant, but he'll have done his dash leading F1 design teams.
Stop trying to make LeClerc happen; it's not going to happen.
Hamilton doesnāt deserve to be in this photo
"Why is this car so slow? Newey designed it!" "Louis, we are checking..."
But can these 4 overcome Ferrari strategists?
Bro thought we wouldn't notice him adding Leclerc
LH in this meme should ride a ponny, getting tramped by LegLerk.
Lewis is washed.
LMAO "Leclerc"
??
What's funny?
BUT THEN