‘I’ve been really concentrating on the 2026 car’
Aston Martin have scored just twice in Grands Prix this year, with Fernando Alonso still awaiting his first top-10 (he’s been close with three 11th-place finishes). While Newey could have been tempted to dive in and try and save this season – he’s so far limited his focus to 2026 with just a few “lunchtime chats” on this year’s machine.
“I’m quite disciplined like that I suppose,” he says. “I tend to be, as I said earlier, a bit tunnel vision. So I’ve been really concentrating on the 2026 car. But yes, doing lunchtime chats, there’s a small core team that’s working on the 2025 car and will do for a few months yet.
“We’ll have an upgrade somewhere around Silverstone time. So…