18 February 2024 , 18:04
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Ferrari have been backed to swoop for Red Bull supremo Adrian Newey after their stunning Lewis Hamilton move.
The current Mercedes star is set to depart the team ahead of the 2025 F1 season to link up with the Italian constructors. It signals the end to a stunning partnership between Hamilton and Mercedes that has seen him win six Drivers’ Championships.
However, Ferrari’s audacious moves might not be finished there. Ex-F1 star Ivan Capelli believes that they could also poach Red Bull design guru Adrian Newey.
Speaking to AutoSprint, the former said: “Hamilton has an enormous wealth of experience, he can make an important contribution to Ferrari. He can provide different rhythms and visions for future planning.
“He alone will not distort performance, because he drives the car and does not design it, however, it could open up future horizons for some engineers who until now have not considered a job at Ferrari.
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“Seeing Hamilton join Ferrari makes the team more attractive also for the technicians, and above all I say Newey, because in any case we are witnessing a seven-time world champion arriving in Maranello giving the idea that there is a future projected towards something different.
“Beyond marketing and the return on the commercial level, I believe this is precisely the additional value of Hamilton to Ferrari, I believe this is the focal point of this arrival.”
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Newey has played a pivotal role for Red Bull since joining the team in 2006 after quitting McLaren. A number of his designs over the past few years have helped Red Bull force themselves into contention for countless records.
Since then, they have won six Constructors’ Championships, as well as seven Drivers’ titles through Sebastian Vettel and Max Verstappen. Despite that, Capelli believes that a title with Ferrari would represent the pinnacle of Newey’s glittering career.
“From the information gathered in recent years, he is much more ‘human’ than when we worked together,” he added. “I see him much more relaxed, he is no longer as present at the Red Bull technical center as he once was, he goes two or three times a week but otherwise he has a private life ‘evolved’, so to speak, compared to a few years ago.
“He is the one who in the last 35 years has characterised the successes of three different teams, Williams, McLaren and Red Bull. For him to get to Ferrari, perhaps with some engineers at followed, ending up at Ferrari and maybe making it win would be the apotheosis of his career.”