Andy Cowell has explained Adrian Newey's role trackside as he makes his first public appearance for Aston Martin at the F1 Monaco Grand Prix.

Newey s▨tarted work at Aston Martin as tꦏheir managing technical partner in March.

This was after a lengthy period of gardening leave following his Reꩵd Bull exit.

While Newey'sꦆ focus is predominantly on the new rules in 2026, Newey's still having an influence on this year.

Newey will attend the Monaco GP this weekend, his first public apꦜpearance in Aston Martin colours th🔥is year.

Cowell, who is Aston Martin's team principal, explained Newey's appearance in Monacoಌ.

"This weekend, he's here and he will see the way we operate in a race weekend environment," Cowell🃏 told med🧔ia, including . "The way we optimise the car.

"We've got the way we play a different strategy so having his experience and insight looking to see what's going well, what's not so well, just helps with our j🐻obs on what to work on to become a stronger t🐻eam."

After a difficulඣt start to the season, Imola🔯 proved to be a significant step forward for Aston Martin.

Unlike in recent ꧑years, their upgrade package had a positive impact on their performance.

Cowell was keen to p🉐oint out that Newey's main focus is on 2026 and the "architecture of the car".

However, he did reveal that "𒁏lunchtime conversations" hav🅠e led to talks about how to get the most from the current challenger.

"So when Adrian joined at the beginning of March we said 'right, we need Adrian ⭕to focus on 2026 and the architecture of the car', which is what he's primarily been focused on," Cowell explained.

"Lunchtime conversations have not just included what he's eating𒁏 or what he's been doing on the weekend. It also included conversations about our existing car - the '25 car - and what might be issues but it's a separate engineering team that has been working on the '25 car.

"As heဣ's been working on the '26 car he gets to see the tools that we've got, specifically CFD, wind tunnel, the whole journey of information from the drawing board to wind tunnel results, a🍎nd with that we learn about what are our strengths, what are our weaknesses and how do we maintain our strengths? And improve our weaknesses.

"He's been doing that within the factory. This weekend, he's here and🐼 he will see the way we operate in a race weekend environment. The way we optimise the car. We've got the way we play a different strategy so having his experience and insight looking to see what's going well, what's not so well, just helps with our jobs on what to work on to become a stronger team."

Newey will "help absolutely everyone" at Aston Martin

Newey is seen aജs the f🌳inal piece of the puzzle for Aston Martin ahead of 2026.

Billionaire Lawrence Stroll has invested heavily in Aston Martin's headquarters at𝐆 Silverstone.

They've also been on a heavy recruitment drive, signing Enrico Cardile from Ferrari to bolster 🎐their technical team alongside Newey.

Aston Martin ar🌠e effectively a w🥂orks team from 2026 as Honda will power them.

Cowell believes Newey's qualities will positively🤪 impact the entire workforce.

"Adrian's experience. Adrian's insight. Adrian's cre🐓ativity can help the whole tea♏m," Cowell added.

"We need to engineer a faster car but we need to maximise the performance of it until the very last lap of every race so his insight and creativity will help aಌbsolutely everyone in the whole team."