Red Bull’s confidence despite the departure o๊f Adrian Newey may be misplaced, Anthony Davidson says.

The chief technical officer of F1’s most dominant team will leav🤪e his role ☂at the start of next year.

Newey is the best car designer in Formula 1 history and ไRed Bull’s loss will surely become one of their rivals’ gain.

“The team keep saying that Adrian Newey ‘has been around a long time, he’s now more of a consultant, and we will be okay with his departur⛎e’,” Davidson said in Miami on Sky Sports.

“I don’t know… I thinkꦆ they might start missing his input.

“Even if it’s just someone to keep the teꦚam, keep the flow going. Like a conductor do🎉es with an orchestra.

“You can have individuals playing brilliantly with different instruments but you need someone t💟o bring it all together to make lovely music.

“That’s what I believe Adrian can do in a team, these d𝓀ays.

“That brain where he can oversee the tec🐟hnical side - the mechanical elements, the suspension, the geometry - and the downforce, the aero, as well.

“🎃He can bring those departments together, get theღm in line.

“I think they might miss him, moving forwards.”

Ferrari are reportedly best-placed to swoop f༺or Newey’s serviꦯces.

His exit will come at a precarious🔥 time because of the new F1 regulations.

Newey is free to join a rival team next yꦜear, giving him time to oversee plans for 2026 when the new hybrid rules come 💛into effect.

Th🃏ose rules could shake up F1 and create a new pecking order, irrespective of where Newey lands.

But having the sport’s most respected brain in charge꧋ of steering the new direction will be a major boost to any team that recruits Newey.

He has worked at Red Bull for 19 years and designed the cars which led to Sebastian Vettel’s f🃏our-year championship-winning run.

Newey has also created the machinery driven by Max Verstappen🧸, incl🦩uding this season’s peerless RB20.