Christian Horner has warned Red Bull’s rivals that signing Adrian Newey would mean a ‘complicated business’ due to the current nature of Formula One.
“It’s a very complicated business now, particularly with the cost cap, elements that you have to take into consideration,” said Horner.
“You have to think very carefully where you commit your funding, where you commit your budgets, what resource, where you’re going to get best bang for buck.
“I think that, obviously, we had a structure that evolved around Adrian over the years that was able to accommodate the way that he works.
“He’s the only designer in Formula One that works still on a drawing board. But of course, as the regulations have become tighter and tighter, and Adrian’s role has evolved and developed within the team over the last years, others have had to step up.
“We’ve had to change how and evolve how we work, which is the same in any organisation.”
