What Adrian Newey has previously said about Fernando Alonso

F1 legends Adrian Newey and Fernando Alonso are set to fina🐷lly join forces at Aston Mar😼tin next year.

Adrian Newey and Fernando Alonso
Adrian Newey and Fernando Alonso

F1 design legend Adrian Newey is set to join forces with two-time world champion 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Fernando Alonso.

The 65-year-old’s expected move to Aston Martin next year is set to be confirmed on Tuesday after reportedl✱y putting pen to part on a five-year contract worth up to £30m a year.

Outgoing Red Bull c🎉hief tec🐎hnical officer Newey will finally get to work with Alonso in 2025. The Briton has made it clear in past interviews how much admiration and respect he has for Alonso.

Newey has previously gone as far as to namecheck Alonso, along with seven-time world champion168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: Lewis Hamilton, as drivers he wishes he could work with.

“Well, clear🏅ly first and foremost to have had a longer relationship with Ayrton [Senna]," ꦛNewey told the in an interview last year when asked if he had any regrets.

"In terms of drivers, Fernando [Alonso] is one I have always… That's a regret that tဣhat never happened because I have a tremendous respect for Fernando.

"The truth is, ꧂first of all, I try to live in the present and the future and not the past.

"Regrets? No. I just feel tremendously lucky to have had the opportunities I've had and to have worked with the people I have done and met the p💟eople I have done."

Newey could have worked with Alon𝔍so sooner, but Red Bull failed in an attempt to sign him, according to motorsport advisor Helmut Marko.

“Before we started winning, ✱in 2008 or so, we were talking to Alonso,” Mar🥂ko revealed on the Inside Line F1 podcast.

“He didn’t take us seriously, I guess. So it didn’t ha♚ppen.”

Alonso was also rumoured to be on Red Bull🦩’s rad𓆉ar in 2019.

Amid the speculation, Newey was quoted as telling Spanish magazine Esquire: "He seems to have had bad luck with some choices he has made, but whenever we have spoke🏅n with him, he has been very kind.

“Fernando's ability 🦂often exceeds the car in his hands. I think that's the mark of a truly great driver - the ability to stand out despite not having a great car."

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