Alonso’s unusual proposal to his team for Newey: “He even said he would pay part of the salary”

Without a doubt, Fernando Alonso’s biggest wish at this point in the championship is for Aston Martin to announce the signing of Adrian Newey. And the green team achieved this despite strong competition from ambitious projects such as Ferrari and Hamilton.

Fernando Alonso, like the rest of the grid, knows the importance of Adrian and how different his brilliant thinking is in creating the car of the new era that starts in 2026, with important changes in the technical and engine regulations. For this reason, according to media such as ‘AS’, ‘The Race’ or ‘Motorsport’, Mike Krack, Aston Martin Team Principalsaid that the Asturian, in a joking tone, assured that he was even ready to “pay part of his salary.”

“It’s unbelievable that he offered to pay part of his salary to Adrian, we’re talking about 10 or 20%, so I’m going to find him now to ask him how much it really is,” said the Luxembourger.

Mike Krack wanted to emphasize the enormous “respect” that exists between Newey and Alonso, something that both highlighted in the presentation due to their intense title battles in 2010 and 2012, with Alonso driving a Ferrari inferior to the Red Bull that Newey created for those years. “You see the mutual respect for each other, and I think they want to achieve something, and Adrian always wanted to work with someone like Fernando Alonso, so I think we have to put the everything in its place and create a good collaboration between the two of them, between the drivers and Adrian himself we have to facilitate it, learn as much as we can and be flexible.argued about it.

Alonso, rope for a moment

Fernando Alonso commented before the Baku GP that “Aston Martin is the team of the future” and adds all the necessary ingredients to fight for victories and titles, although no one knows what year Adrian Newey will be able to make a winning car, if that is in 2026 or if it is later. Fernando Alonso has a contract until 2026 and even he himself does not know if he will continue in F1 in 2027. But before Alonso’s words, Mike Krack clarified that Fernando can continue for many years regardless of his age, because he continues who is performing at the highest level despite being 43 years old, just 3 races away from reaching 400 in F1.

“Reach 500? Yes, why not. We haven’t talked about it yet, it was only a few months ago when we renewed him, but it’s clear that Fernando has a long future with this team, everyone is very excited about the announcement of Adrian on Tuesday, although we didn’t talk about anything.”he concluded the matter.