TV presenter Jeremy Clarkson, who attended Repton school with Formula 1 tech talisman Adrian Newey, once described caravan holidays as “two weeks of defecating in a bucket”. As Newey exits Red Bull, pursued by several chequebooks, he says he’s planning to tour Europe in a motorhome before he returns to the drawing board.
GP Racing columnists Mark Gallagher and Alex Kalinauckas join editor Stuart Codling to ask if this is really the plan. Newey’s former boss at McLaren, Ron Dennis, described Adrian as “the most competitive man I’ve ever met”. Surely such an individual can’t walk away quietly – having put in an order for a new yacht he may be planning to work more on remote, and perhaps aim for a consultancy role rather than a full-time technical directorship.
