Formula 1 News: Newey says he will decide by winter break

Will he retire, or go to work for Ferrari or Aston Martin? Adrian Newey told Sky F1 that today he doesn’t know what he wants to do in the future.

“I don’t know,” he told Craig Slater. “At the moment I’m just kind of still working on the RB17, and then just taking some time off.

“Last week actually we took seven days and lucky timing on the weather obviously, and went around the South Coast with our dogs in an old Aston Martin DB6 and that was great fun.”

Asked if by “autumn/winter” time he’ll know what’s next, he replied: “That’s certainly a target, by then I’ll need to make my mind up.”

Newey was driving an Aston Martin DB6 on vacation, which raised a few eyebrows with the Silverstone-based F1 team recently emerging as the favorite to sign the 65-year-old.

Although it was Ferrari who were initially linked to the design guru, reports even claiming he’d signed a pre-contract with the Scuderia, of late it is Aston Martin who have emerged as the leading contender in F1’s rumor mill.

According to reports, Newey met with Aston Martin team owner Lawrence Stroll on a recent visit to the team’s Silverstone base, prompting Aston Martin team boss Mike Krack to say he was “flattered” that the team was being named “in the hunt with Ferrari”.