Newey to become Aston Martin team boss - but is it a good move?
The Race F1 Podcast
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🗓️ 26 November 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
We react to the news that Adrian Newey will become Aston Martin team principal in 2026 in the latest edition of The Race F1 Podcast.
Jon Noble joins Edd Straw to explain the reasons for what are described as strategic changes, and what to expect from Newey as team principal.
We also explain Andy Cowell’s changing role and how it could be good news for new engine supplier Honda, and what led to him, by mutual agreement, accepting a move out of his current position.
Aston Martin’s recent struggles, and the revolving door technical leadership, are also tackled as we ask whether these latest changes will help or hinder the team’s grand ambitions.
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| 0:00.0 | The Athletic. |
| 0:02.7 | The Races on, and Adrian Newey will become Aston Martin team principal in 2026 as part of what's |
| 0:18.0 | described as strategic changes. |
| 0:20.1 | So what does that mean for the defining technical leader of F1 in the past four decades? |
| 0:24.5 | And how is Andy Cowell's role shifting? |
| 0:27.2 | I'm Edshaw and joining me to react to this breaking news is John Noble. |
| 0:30.6 | So John, Adrian Uey will become Aston Martin's team principal in 26 on top of his current role as managing technical partner. |
| 0:39.5 | So why the change? |
| 0:41.7 | I think it's partly being triggered by things not working between Andy Cowell and Adrian Newey. |
| 0:48.4 | You can even see that in the – it's kind of admitted to or hinted at in the press release where they announced it, |
| 0:54.0 | where Lawrence Stroll, team owner talked about mutual agreement, |
| 0:57.2 | which normally means someone's not happy, |
| 0:59.6 | they've agreed a new role, |
| 1:01.2 | which is what's happened, |
| 1:02.5 | we think's what's happened in this case. |
| 1:05.3 | Obviously, Andy Cowell came in last October as CEO, |
| 1:08.2 | with the mission to get this team ready for Adrian Nui and ready to guide |
| 1:12.6 | it towards wins and even more potentially from 26. Last winter, it's seen enough. He felt |
| 1:18.1 | it wasn't working. He felt there were too many silos, gaps of responsibilities. People spread |
| 1:23.1 | too thinly. So he made a lot of shake-ups last winter, which included him making himself |
| 1:27.6 | team principal and moving then team principal might crack into a new role, purely on race |
| 1:33.0 | operations. So this is how they rolled into 2025. Adrian Newe arrived in March. And I think he was pretty |
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