Steiner slams Newey team principal: “He wanted that role without knowing what it entails”

Steiner’s opinion Gunther Steiner against Adrian Newey. This also happens during this very long spring break that the F1 Circus has found itself experiencing following the cancellation of the two GPs in Bahrain and Saudi Arabia due to the war that broke out in the Middle East. The former Haas team principal, who now owns the Tech3 team in MotoGP, returned to talk about F1 in a recent episode of the Drive to Wynn podcast. Steiner in particular had his say on the tremendous and unexpected crisis that the Aston Martin team is facing, which was imagined to be at the top of the rankings this year and which instead is literally struggling to even bring a single-seater under the checkered flag. A wrong desire Steiner, as a former team principal that he is, harshly criticized the choice to put Adrian Newey in that role, the brilliant designer who Lawrence Stroll brought to Silverstone at his weight in gold, taking him away from Red Bull and the competition from Ferrari. No one has won more than Newey in F1, but being the top manager of a team is a job that – in Steiner’s opinion – Newey has greatly underestimated. “I think if you asked Adrian now he would answer: ‘I don’t know why I did it or why I accepted’ – stated Steiner – I don’t know how it happened, whether he wanted to become team principal or not, but obviously that’s not his strong point.” “He is very good at what he does – added the Merano manager in reference to Newey – that is to design cars. Obviously not Aston Martin at the moment, but he will fix it. I think it was Adrian’s fixation: ‘I have to be team principal’, without knowing what being a team principal really entails. This shows that people should always be assigned roles in which they can express their strengths, without ever excessively promoting anyone”.