Eddie Jordan has spoken out 🦩about his surprise role as Adrian Newey’s manager.

Newey’s statement to confirm his exit as Red Bull technicalꦯ director included a thankyou to Jordan.

F1 fan🌄s were stunned to learn that the former team owner was still involved in a managerial capacity for the in-demand Newey.

Jordan exp🦄lained on the Formula For Success podcast: “You have to give some credit to Ian Phillips, who was his team principal in th🐽e Leyton House days in the late 80s.

“T🌄hat’s how far back I go with Adrian. There are some funny stories…

“I was always apprehensive. Adrian is so super clevꦡer that I think ‘sho൲uld I be in the same room as this guy?’

“He th🌟inks different to me. He looks🦹 different to me.

“The only ▨thing we h෴ave in common is a total and utter love for music.

“Behind that personཧ is a rock star. Glastonbury doesn’t happen without him.𒁏 The Isle of Wight Festival…

“Anyt🎃ime we’re in Cape Town, we always wind up in the same places.

“And, we cycle together.

“Over the years he has said ‘E🍌ddie, I am not happy 🥂about this, or I love that, or what about this…’

“We go sailing and he says ‘I like this, 💙it’s a nice way of gett😼ing downtime from motor racing, it’s driving me mad…’

“We know how many championships he’s won for drivers and teams. It totals 25. I dare say, the way Max Verstappen is going, he wil💃l add to that this year.

“I must remind everybody that he’s still part of the Red Bull team, as we speak. He’s🐻 still determined that, when he does leave, it will be a celebratio🌼n. And so it should be.”

Jordan will, theref✃ore, play a role in Newey’s next move.

Newey will officially depart Red Bull early next year and could take up a role at a new F1 team, giving him time to l𝕴ook at their 2026 car when the latest regulations kick in.

“He’s currently in England,” Jordan said. “I suggest anyone sho🥃uld ring him.

“He has said that when he grew up his father was a vet, but wanted to be an enginཧeer. He retired 🔯at 65 and always regretted it.

“I could🎉 be wrong. On one side, he’s 66, he’s got more money than time. He doesn’t need to go down that route.

“I t✨hink there’s another season involved with hꦉim, in terms of another contract. That will be him.”

Will Jordan influence Newey?

“My role is very clear,” he said. “I gather the informatio🌃n. I put it on paper.

“I don’t make my recommendation. He says from time to time: ‘Wha♈t would you do, if you were me?’

“I say: ‘This is how I seꦐe it, but I may be biased towards you going racing, or going rallying around the world’.

“We understand each other’s mentalities.

“Amanda has✃ to be a part of that configuration. “She might want to continue racing if it’s important to them as a family. Or she might say ‘put the dogs on the boat…’

“I have no idea what will actually happen.”

Jordan paid triꦛbute to Newey’s exceꦯllence at designing F1 cars.

“I say to him: ‘Adrian, when you have a pencil in you🌱r hand and you are looking📖 at a drawing board, there is nobody your equal’.

“Take the pencil ♐out and you bec♛ome just the same as the rest of us.

“I’m serious, he’s a normal guy.

“But insideಌ that brain there is something really smart going out.

“He consistently gets it right. He’s a genius whe💎n it comes to evaluating how to take advantage of the rules, how to get the best out of them, how to make sure the team and the car maximises every avenue.”