Legendary F1 designer Adrian Newey believes there is enough “flexibility” in the 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:2026 regulations that will enable teams to come up wit🧔h different solutions.

Newey, F1’s mos🍰t successful and ♓famous designer, has taken up a new role as Aston Martin’s managing technical partner after spending nearly 20 years at Red Bull.

With the 66-year-old Briton’s highly-anticipated arriva༒l at Aston Martin coming too late to influence the design of the team’s 2025 car, Newey is mainly focused on the major new technical rule changes coᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚming in 2026.

Spꦰeaking in an interview on , Newey reve𒁃aled his expectations for F1’s new rules set.

"My thoughts on the '26 regulations are similar to what my thoughts were about the big regulatio😼n change for 2022: initially thinking the regulations wereജ so prescriptive that there wasn't much left here [for a designer], but then you start to drill into the detail and realise there's more flexibility for innovation and different approaches than first meets the eye,” Newey said.

"We saw that at the start of 2022 with teams taking really quite different directions. Four seasons on they've largely conve🅷rged, but initially that wasn't the case. Variation between teams is great. It's all a bit boring if the cars look identical and the only way you can tell them apart is the livery.

"I think there's a high probability that in '26 we’ll see something similar to '22. There's enough flexibility in the regulations, and I'm sure people will come up with differen🗹t solutions. Some of those will be dropped over the first two or three years as teams start to converge.”

F1 2026 poses ‘slightly scary’ challenge

Aston Martin are hoping to capitalise on the looming regulation shake-up to try in a ဣbid to move up the order and get closer to their lofty ambitions of winning world titles in the coming years.

Their Canadian billiona🐬ire owner Lawrence Strolꦗl has invested hundreds of millions in a new factory at Silverstone, including a state-of-the-art wind tunnel, beaten off competition to secure Newey’s services, and secured a factory engine deal with Honda which starts next year.

In 2026, F1 will intro🎶duce a new generation of c🌳ars featuring unprecedented changes impacting both aerodynamics and power units.

"For the first time I can remember, we've got both the chassis regulations and power unit regulations changing at the same time. This is... interesting... and slightly scary,” Ne🍨wey said.

"Both t෴he new aerodynamic rules and the PU regulations present opportunities. I would expect to see a range of aero solutions and there could be variation in PU performance across the grid to begin with – which is what happened when the hybrid regulations first came in, 💜in 2014.

“Next year marks the start o🐼f our works partnership with Honda. I’ve got a lot of trust in Honda and a huge amount of respect for them, having worked ⭕with them before.

“They took a year out of F1 and so, to some extent, they're playing catch-up, but they're a great group of engineers and very much an engineering-led compꦕany."