Mark Hughes and Giorgio Piola highlight individual aspects of Adrian Newey’s Aston Martin AMR26 that showcase the extreme approach taken to its design.
Apr 28, 2026 10:20am UTC
The April break between the Japanese Grand Prix and the Miami Grand Prix offers a chance to examine the highly individualistic details of Newey’s AMR26. Those details show that, even by Newey’s standards, this is an extreme design — perhaps the most audacious of his career — though it is not yet performing to a high level given Aston Martin’s much‑documented struggles so far in 2026.