Adrian Newey has admitted that the RB20 has "one feature" t🃏hat he isn't content with, which might be changed this season.

Red Bull's chief technical ꧋officer's last 🗹significant contribution to their F1 project could be to tweak a part of their dominant car.

Newey oversaw Sebastian Vettel’s era that yiel♛ded four consecutive drivers’ titles at Red Bull. He now designs the cars which Max Verstappen is dominating with.

Regarded as the bes♍t F1 car design﷽er, Newey is now on the radar of Ferrari and Aston Martin in particular.

He was asked about this seas♛on’s RB20: “Is there any room for improvement? Do you search for perfection? Where are the chinks in the armour?😼”

Newey responded: “There is always room for improvemeꦯnt. This car is the third evolution of the 2022 car under this rule-set.

“We’ve ܫgot one more year, next year, until the huge cha🌟nge in 2026.

“We are always searching for little bits and pieces. The fundamen🐬tal architecture of the car stays the same.

“For instance, there is one feature on the car which I’m not ter🌞ri✱bly happy with, this year.

“It’s✱ something which will either change this year or wi﷽ll be altered next year.”

Newey said about his legendary career and his Red Bull exit: “I have been doing the joꦓb that I’ve always to, since a kid. That’s my passion.

“I enjoy♓ working with the drivers, the engineers, the team, the mechanics. That’s what gets me up and motivates me.

“The other side🐲 of it? It’s something that, I guess, comes as part of the package but it’s not something I think about.

“It has been a bit of a shock and a surprise.”

He was asked: “T꧙he other stuff being an unwelcome distraction?”

Newey 🍸replied: “N🐈o, not an unwelcome distraction. I don’t know how to put it. Probably a surprise, more than anything.

“I never think about that.

“Statistics, and all that, isn💜’t something that drives me.

“It’s what I do. I just ▨normally end up under the radar, and I’m happy with that.”

Adrian Newey: 2026 regulations "strange"

Newey delivered an intriguing description of the 2026 F1 regulations - which he is not yet confirmed to be♚ a part of.

The exit of Red Bull’s chief technical officer, and the b💜rains behind their dominant F1 cars, has got rivals determined to lure him into their factories.

Newey will leave Red Bulꦰl formally in ea♏rly-2025 and can reportedly take another job immediately, giving him time to oversee the direction of a new team’s first car under the revised 2026 hybrid rule-set.

Newey was asked if the 2026 regulations are “compelജling” enough for him to commit to another project.

“I 🧸must admit that, when the 2022 regulations were announced in 2020, my first reaction was that they were restrictive,” he told✅ Sky Sports.

“That’s always a shame. The more regulation restrictive we have, the more it💫 s﷽tifles creativity.

“But, as it tu⭕rns out, there is quite a lot of fꦫlexibility.

“We saw ꦛthat at the start of 2022. Ther💯e were a lot of different shapes.

“The 2026 regulations? At the moment𝓰, they look l🙈ike a slightly strange set of regulations.

“To then ❀write them off? And say they won’t bꦯe good? It’s way too premature.

“There comes a point, always, as a designer that you first look at what they might be. You ha💎ve an opinion that they might bꩵe good or bad.

“But ꦺyou have to ignore that, and get on with the ch♔allenge of it.

“I’m sure 2026 will be a♚nother big challenge. Whether I am a part of it? I really don’t know.

“To those involved, it will be a big challenge.”