Christian Horner Reveals the Ultimate “Litmus Moment” for Red Bull F1 That Doesn’t Involve Max Verstappen

Signing Max Verstappen wasn’t the only great thing for Red Bull as team principal Christian Horner recently opened up on the arrival of Adrian Newey to the team. The Bulls’ current chief technical officer, Adrian Newey, is undoubtedly one of the finest engineers the United Kingdom has ever produced.

Newey’s technical expertise has changed Red Bull Racing’s history ever since he arrived at the Milton-Keynes-based team.

In an interview on The Diary of A CEO, Horner shared, “It just felt like there was a window of opportunity, so you know I’ve made sure I got to meet Adrian and I built up a relationship with him and his then-wife and then managed to convince him to come and join the team.”

“That was a litmus moment because then suddenly people woke up and say wow if Adrian Newey is prepared to come here, he must see something he believes in,” further asserted the Red Bull team principal.

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Adrian Newey joined the Austrian team from McLaren in 2006 after contract negotiations with the British team failed. Ever since he arrived at the team, the outlook and performance of the Bulls have changed as they’ve picked up six driver’s championships and four constructors’ championships with one more to come at the end of the 2022 F1 season.

Adrian Newey, Red Bull’s technical maestro

Adrian Martin Newey, who currently works as the Chief Technical Officer for Red Bull Racing, has been working with the team for over 16 years. Having gained vast experience on the technical side, Newey is surely one of the talents any team would like to get a hold of.

Recipient of the Order of the British Empire for his excellence in the field of Motorsports, Newey has experience working in the teams like Leyton House, Williams, McLaren, and of course, Red Bull. Born in Stratford-upon-Avon, the 63-year-old has worked in the premium form of motorsport since 1988.

Over the course of his career, Newey has built cars for F1 greats, like Nigel Mansell, Mika Hakkinen, Sebastian Vettel, Alain Prost, Jacques Villeneuve, Sebastian Vettel, Mark Webber, and Max Verstappen.

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Over his illustrious F1 career that spans decades, Newey enabled drivers to pick up multiple F1 championships, while he helped the teams to clinch 10 constructors’ championships. All these credentials truly depict that Christian Horner indeed pulled off a stunner by snatching Adrian Newey from McLaren.