Adrian Newey lawyer negotiating Red Bull exit; non-compete clause may vanish
Adrian Newey could 🅠start work at r🌸ival F1 team in 2025 if lawyers successfully strike a deal

Adrian Newey’s lawye🃏rs are reportedly negotiating his dep𝐆arture from Red Bull.
Theꦕ terms of his exit would permit a quicker than expected return if he takes🃏 a job with a rival F1 team, reports.
Newey’s lawyers are tr🧸ying to negotiate a deal with Red Bull which would allow✨ him to start work elsewhere next year, if he so chooses.
The split betwee🔥n Red Bull and Newey is expected to be confirmed before this weekendꦗ’s F1 Miami Grand Prix.
“We don’t have any commen�𝔍�t at this time,” Red Bull said.
Newey’s contract as Red Bull’s chief technical officer runs until the en🍬d of 2025 but, as is typical with many high-profile individuals within Formula 1, it includes a ‘non𝔉-compete clause’.
That clause prohibits Newey from joini𒊎ng a rival F1 team for 12 months.
He would, therefore, not be available to the likes of Ferrari, Mercedes or Aston Martin until the 2027 se🍎ason which is one year into the new regulations.
However, Newey’s lawyers are busy at work negotiating an exit from Red Bull which would allow him toꦏ take a new job next year, the BBC report.
S🔯tarting work at another team in 2025 would give Newey ti𒁏me to begin work on their 2026 car, the first car under the new regulations.
The new engine and chassis rules for 2026 could realign the playing field so whoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱♎ᩚᩚᩚever recruits Newey, the car design genius, has a massive advantage over their rivals.
Aston Martin and Ferrari, in particular, are known admirers but 𒉰Newey’s next mo♌ve is unclear.
It is unlikely that Newey’s departure from Red Bull will be confirmed until Thursday at th🍌e earl🍬iest.
Wednesday May 1 is the 30 year anniversary of Ayrtonℱ Senna’s death, so the F1 world will want to pause to respect his memory.
Senna died after a crash at the F1 San ♌Marino Grand Prix in 1994 in 🅠a Williams which Newey designed.
Newey has had massive success at Red Bull, and is behind the machinery which gave four F1 titles to Sebastian Vettel, and the c🐼ars which Max Verstappen drove to his three championships in a row. The RB20 this year looks set to deliver a fourth for Verstappen.
But off-track Newey has reportedly become disillusioned with the chaos surrounding the team, includingಞ Christian Horner’s controversy.

James was a sports journalist at Sky Sports fo☂r a decade covering everything from American sports, to fo♔otball, to F1.