Red Bull Racing has put together perhaps the most-dominant dynasty in Formula 1 history.
Max Verstappen has won 38 races out of the 49 races contested since the start of the current regulations in 2022. And of the 11 races that Verstappen did not win, four of them were won by teammate Sergio Perez.
This season began with an allegation and a scandal surrounding team principal Christian Horner. After peaking at Saudi Arabia with Jos Verstappen outright calling for Horner to be relived of his position, the scandal had begun to fade into the background due to a lack of news surrounding it.
That all changed this week, in which Auto Motor und Sport reported that car designer Adrian Newey has told the team he wants to move away from it due to the allegations. This report was later corroborated by multiple news sources, including the BBC and Sky Sports, who confirmed it with their own sources within the team and around the sport.
Newey leaving Red Bull is a gigantic blow. He’s generally considered the best car designer in F1 history, and he definitely is the best of the past 40 or so years. The legendary FW14, with its numerous technical advances such as active suspension and traction control, utterly dominated F1 in 1992.
Drivers champion Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese won 10 races that year, and between the both of them, only finished off the podium twice. Mansell in particular won nine of the races and never finished outside of the top 10. Newey then delivered another championship-winning car in 1993, luring Ayrton Senna to the team for an ultimately tragic 1994 season.
Newey ultimately won five constructor’s championships with Williams in the 1990s, another one with McLaren in 1998 and six since joining Red Bull in 2006. Mika Hakkinen also won the driver’s championship in 1999 and Verstappen in 2021 without securing the constructor’s titles.
Although the chances of Verstappen using an out clause to leave Red Bull are still relatively low, the loss of Newey absolutely increases the odds. It makes the reported Mercedes gambit of not signing anybody for…
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