Christian Horner has moved to downplay the departures of two Red Bull figures ahead of the 2025 F1 season.

Design legend Adrian Newey is joining Aston Martin as managing technical partner on 2 March following the 65-year-old Briton’s decision to leave Red Bull after 20 years💞 at Milton Keynes.

Red Bull have also lost former sporting director Jonathan Wheatley, who will become team principal at Sauber t🎶his season ahead of their trans🌊formation to Audi from 2026.

But Red Bull team prin✅cipal Christian Horner insists his side can continue to be successful without N🐓ewey and Wheatley.

"There's only two going a𝔍nd obviously, Adrian left in Miami, so we haven't seen him. He's been working on the RB17 since then, so he's not been working on any F1 projects," Horner told .

"Obviously, sad to see🏅 them go. They’ve both played imp🅷ortant roles in the team over their tenure in the team.

“But the show goes on, and I think we’ve got the strength and depth we’ve got. We have that and arguably 2026 – what we're gearing up for in 2026 with our own power unit – is by far the biggest challenge and the most ambitio✃us project this team has ever taken on. 

"So, 2025, Jonathan will ꦛstep off the pitwall, but other than that, everything remains the same.”

‘Evolution’ not rebuild for Red Bull

Horner also dismissed the✱ notion that Red Bull need to “rebuild” their team following the departures. Instead, he sees Red🧸 Bull going through a period of “evolution”.

"I would say rebuild goes way too far for two people that have left. It's evolution,” Horner explaine🦹d.

"It's something that has been on the cards for a little while, so something that has been part of the planning for so𒆙me time.”

Amid Red Bull’s restructuring, 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Max Verstappen’s race engineer Gianpiero L꧅ambiase is t❀o be promoted into an expanded role.

Horner has confirmed Lambiase will still be working as the four-time world champion’s race engineer as the D⭕utchman bids to match Michael Schumacher’s tally of five consecutive world titles in 2025.

"Yes, he’ll still be working directly wit🧔h Max. He just takౠes on a broader role, obviously, as he steps up,” Horner said.

"It's just a natural progression trackside with those personnel.  It's great because it ༺gives them an opportunity and sometimes an organisation, if it remains stagnant, it fails to progress.

“So, I think this is a fantastic opportunity of progression for 🍸m🎃any people in the team that have been long standing team members that deserve that opportunity.”