Newey likens Aston Martin struggles to Red Bull early days

Aston Martin team principal Adrian Newey has drawn parallels between the team's current difficulties and the turbulent period he faced when he first joined Red Bull. Both organisations, he said, had gone through considerable upheaval, including changes of owners and senior managers, and the task in each case has been to bring people together, break down silos and improve the culture.

Aston Martin has endured an underwhelming campaign, rarely featuring in the conversation for points. Both the team and power unit supplier Honda have acknowledged that the power unit is the limiting factor, with reliability problems and a lack of performance persisting. Honda has already been given special dispensation within the ADUO system to improve its power unit this season.

Asked how he could help Honda with packaging the power unit into the chassis, Newey agreed with Ferrari that outright crankshaft horsepower is not the whole story, and said the team is always working on what creates the best overall package.