Adrian Newey’s importance to Re🐼d Bull never diminished despite theories to the contrary, it has 𒀰been claimed.

The exit of Red Bull’s chief technical officer is set to have ma🃏jor ramifications for Formula 1.

The brain behind this season’s RB20 - and every Red Bull title-winning car - has been feted for the role he played at F1’s domi🐈nant team, which will now come to an end in early-2025.

“It’s massive,” Motorspor🦩t-Magazin journalist Christian Menath told the  podcast.

“If you lose someone with that knowledge…

“I know someꦐ people𝕴 say it is a team of engineers, and not one genius, who builds these cars these days. That may be true.

“Newey is like the maestro of an orchestra.

“Christian Horner described Max Verstappen as driving like a metronome, doing everything perf👍ectly all the time.

“I think the metronome in the engineers’ office is Newey. He’s the maestro of the engineers in Milton🔥 Keynes.”

Natalie Pinkha𝐆m added: “The greatest and most inflꦡuential figure in Formula 1 history, and will have an impact well into the future.

“Those aren’t my words. They are Mark Webber’s. Before I jo🎃ined꧋ the sport, he told me this.

“I don𝓡’t think we can ever underestimate the value he br🦄ings to the sport and the culture he has brought to Red Bull.

“I agree that he is like the conductor of the orchestra. His lieutenants may be putting intoꦏ action a lot of his theories.

“But are you telling me any🦂one would go a♐gainst his theories?

“This guy is a genius.

“The narrative that has been peddled lately suits an agenda to say that his influence on💝 the team has diminished.

“I just don’t thi🙈nk it’s true. I don’t buy into it. I think they will miss him more than any driver.”

Newey is of interest to Ferrari and Aston Martin but, at 65 years old, could wa😼lk away from F1 amid report༒ed disillusionment.

Tom Clarkson said: “Does he want to sit on a beach? I doubt it. The Adrian I know, and speak to, is rest🌄less.

“He wants to do things. He wants to de🍬sign. He still loves it.”

Pinkham repꦬlied: “There is no way he should retire.

“His brain power hasn’t dimin♒ished. The way he drew upon his previous experience from the grou🃏nd-effect era, which he nailed, to now?

“T𓂃his is a guy who has got so much to offer the sport.♐”