Newey will take on a Red Bull position outside of Formula One.
Red Bull Racing may move Adrian Newey into a non-Formula 1 position, according to Auto Motor und Sport in Germany.
As the team looks for ways to take full advantage of the budget cap regulations, correspondent Michael Schmidt argues that the budget cap is the cause.
“The large teams continue to operate with 800 to 1000 employees because they don’t want to lose good people to the competition,” he stated. “They would rather put their high earners into other projects and only let them work part-time in Formula 1.”
Since the top three earnings on each team are currently exempt from the expenditure cap, Newey switching to a non-F1 project would free up a significant amount of money for other well-known experts.
“The championship-winning team has lost a lot of people to the competition recently,” Schmidt says.
According to him, Newey “apparently plans to focus entirely on the RB17 hypercar project in the medium term” as a result. Dr. Helmut Marko of Red Bull disputes the idea that the hypercar is only an excuse to get above the cost limit.
“Our opponents are interpreting it in such a way that the floor of the RB17 provides information for the Formula 1 car, which is of course complete nonsense.”