Newey’s new challenge + a crowning moment in the championship? – 2025 Qatar GP Preview
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🗓️ 27 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Why have Aston appointed the legendary designer to this new role? How well suited is Adrian to leading a team? And what do Fernando Alonso and Lance Stroll make of the decision?
Tom and Albert also discuss the championship permutations going into the penultimate round of the season. What does Lando Norris need to be crowned World Champion this weekend? With Max Verstappen closing in, will McLaren change their approach? And who could benefit from the mandatory tyre stints Pirelli have introduced for this race?
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| 0:00.0 | F1's most successful designer is becoming a team principal. |
| 0:07.0 | A little bit of a surprise for me. |
| 0:08.0 | Him becoming team principal just formalizes |
| 0:11.0 | what I think a lot of the people in the team thought anyway, which was he is our leader. |
| 0:15.0 | One thing is to design a car, one thing is to lead a Formula One team. |
| 0:21.0 | Should McLaren focus on Lando, give him the priority? |
| 0:25.0 | I will put everything on Lando. |
| 0:27.4 | Going to Abu Dhabi with Max Bustap and still on the fight for the title, it's so dangerous. |
| 0:35.9 | Welcome everyone to the Lusselaill International Circuit for F1 Nation's preview of this weekend's |
| 0:41.5 | Catar Grand Prix, a sprint weekend where we have big news to react to and potentially a world champion to crown. |
| 0:49.1 | I'm Tom Clarkson, and joining me in the paddock outside McLaren is Spanish broadcaster and journalist Albert Fabriga. |
| 0:55.6 | Albert, great to see you again. Now, let's start with the news that F1's most successful designer is becoming a team principal. |
| 1:04.2 | Adrian Newe will take charge of Aston Martin next season. He's going to lead the team at the racetrack, as well as the design and technical |
| 1:11.8 | team back at the team's factory in the UK. Current TP, Andy Cowell, will take on a new role as |
| 1:18.0 | chief strategy officer. Now, Adrian is without doubt a design genius, but this will be the |
| 1:24.5 | first time he runs a team. And here's what the Aston Martin drivers, Fernando Alonzo and Lance Stroll, think of the decision. |
| 1:31.9 | Great news for the team to have Adrian with all his expertise and knowledge about everything |
| 1:38.5 | that a team should need to compete at the highest level is great news. |
| 1:43.2 | The role of team principle makes, which |
| 1:45.5 | is a little bit different in our days and you have to deal with other things, other staff, or media, |
| 1:51.1 | or commitments or sponsors or something like that, that I hope Adrian doesn't need to do all of those, |
| 1:56.1 | you know, and concentrate it more in the important stuff. But, you know, he knows how to operate a team and how |
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