Red Bull boss Christian Horner has confirmed that design guru Adrian Newey will continue splitting his time between his F1 commitments and other projects of interest.
Newey had already rolled back part of his F1 employment with the Milton Keynes outfit last year, devoting time to working on an America's Cup effort.
The designer's divided agenda will continue this year.
"Adrian will be splitting his time as last year, 50/50," confirmed Christian Horner. "Before too long he’ll be starting to look at 2017, now that those regulations look pretty fixed."
"First of all, Adrian has got more than enough on his plate for the next two years with this road car, and beyond that there’s obviously, let’s see, that could evolve into further cars with Aston Martin. The ambition doesn’t start and stop with one vehicle.
"Americas Cup we’ve completed the work that we were contracted to do, so our involvement in the Americas Cup is now finished. We’ve delivered a product that will hopefully assist them. We’ve now completed that assignment."
While Horner values Newey's talent and genius tremendously, the Red Bull boss insisted on underlining the growing expertise of the outfit's senior technical team.
"It’s great to have him [Newey] as part of what we’re doing, and it’s also great that the senior technical team are really asserting and establishing themselves as well."
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