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Following weeks of speculation about the hugely-rated engineer, it was confirmed on the day of the Monaco grand prix that Briton Newey, 55, is staying at Red Bull.<\/p>\nRed Bull has directly contradicted Ferrari’s claim that the Italian team never tried to secure the services of Adrian Newey.<\/p>\n
Following weeks of speculation about the hugely-rated engineer, it was confirmed on the day of the Monaco grand prix that Briton Newey, 55, is staying at Red Bull.<\/p>\n
However, while still advising the F1 team and mentoring its full-time staff, Newey will focus instead on a new Advanced Technologies Centre, reportedly to feature forays such as the new British bid for the America’s Cup.<\/p>\n
“Adrian has admitted openly that he is a little tired,” Red Bull director Dr Helmut Marko this week told Austrian broadcaster Servus TV.<\/p>\n
“This is because in formula one there is gradually less and less room for innovation,” he explained.<\/p>\n
“We do not want to lose him, so we will build this new centre where – alongside his work in formula one – he can also manage multiple projects,” added Marko.<\/p>\n
He said Newey, for instance, is still working on the design of the RB11, the 2015 Red Bull car.<\/p>\n
For Red Bull, keeping Newey as a mere advisor is the best possible outcome, as it keeps the only designer revered in F1 circles as a ‘genius’ out of the clutches of its rivals.<\/p>\n
Ferrari, for one, is known to have made an enormous monetary offer – in the dozens of millions – to woo Newey to Maranello.<\/p>\n
Ferrari, however, denies it.\u00a0 “As I said in Monte Carlo,” team boss Marco Mattiacci insisted last week, “we never contacted Adrian.”<\/p>\n
Marko says that is not true.<\/p>\n
“We have had long conversations with Adrian,” the Austrian told Servus TV.<\/p>\n
“Ferrari made him an absurd offer — both on the financial side as well as in terms of his responsibilities,” Marko claimed.<\/p>\n
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