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All the F1 Cars Adrian Newey Designed or Helped Shape, by Team and Season

A season-by-season guide to Adrian Newey’s Formula 1 cars across March/Leyton House, Williams, McLaren, Red Bull and Aston Martin.
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Adrian Newey’s Formula 1 design career spans March/Leyton House, Williams, McLaren, Red Bull and, from 2026, Aston Martin. The list below covers the principal cars associated with his leading technical roles, including an intended McLaren that never raced and a related Toro Rosso design. “Designed by Newey” is shorthand: each car was a team effort, not the work of one person alone.

How to read this list

This is a season-by-season inventory of the principal F1 cars attributed to Newey in the available career coverage, rather than a claim that every component or mid-season revision has been independently audited. Formula 1 notes that modern cars are created by large design teams. Its retrospective of 12 constructors’ title-winning cars is a subset of the wider career inventory, not a list of every Newey-associated car. Ars Technica’s May 2024 illustrated history provides the broad inventory; Formula 1’s technical feature and its career retrospective cover technical details and title winners.

March and Leyton House: 1988–1990

Newey’s first Formula 1 car was the March 881. He continued designing for the team, later known as Leyton House, through 1990.

  • March 881 (1988): Newey’s first F1 car.
  • March CG891 (1989): The next car in his March/Leyton House run.
  • March CG901 (1990): The final car in this team period attributed to him.

Williams: 1991–1997

Williams produced Newey’s first run of championship-winning designs. The FW14B, FW15C, FW16, FW18 and FW19 appear in Formula 1’s list of constructors’ title cars, although Newey had left the team before the FW19 raced.

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  • FW14 (1991): The first Williams car in this sequence.
  • FW14B (1992): Combined active suspension with aerodynamic control. Formula 1 says it won 10 of 16 races in 1992.
  • FW15C (1993): Refined the active-suspension approach; it later received anti-lock brakes (ABS).
  • FW16 (1994): The constructors’ title car for a season when active suspension had been outlawed. Newey later acknowledged the aerodynamic difficulty of returning to passive suspension: “I completely messed up the aerodynamics of going back to passive suspension,” as quoted by Formula 1 from its Beyond The Grid podcast coverage.
  • FW16B (1994): The updated version listed in the broad career inventory.
  • FW17 and FW17B (1995): The two versions associated with Williams’s 1995 season.
  • FW18 (1996): A constructors’ title-winning Williams.
  • FW19 (1997): A constructors’ title-winning car that raced after Newey had left Williams; Ars Technica says he was on gardening leave while it competed.

McLaren: 1998–2006

Newey joined too late to shape McLaren’s 1997 car. The MP4/13 was the first McLaren design he led. The MP4/18, by contrast, was intended for 2003 but did not race; the MP4/21 was his last McLaren design and was used in testing.

  • MP4/13 (1998): Developed for narrow-track regulations and grooved tires; it won the constructors’ title.
  • MP4/14 (1999): A drivers’ title-winning car, as distinguished from the constructors’ title list.
  • MP4/15 (2000): The next McLaren in the season-by-season sequence.
  • MP4/16 (2001): Newey-associated McLaren design.
  • MP4/17 and MP4/17D (2002–03): The original design and its D revision.
  • MP4/18 (2003): An intended race car that never competed.
  • MP4/19 (2004): McLaren’s next listed season car.
  • MP4/20 (2005): Newey-associated McLaren design.
  • MP4/21 (2006): His last McLaren car, which reached testing.

Red Bull and related designs: 2007–2024

Newey arrived after Red Bull’s 2006 RB2 was finalized. His Red Bull sequence runs from the RB3 to the RB20. Two Toro Rosso cars are related shared-design entries rather than Red Bull season cars.

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  • RB3 (2007): Newey’s first Red Bull car in the inventory.
  • Toro Rosso STR2 (2007): A sister/shared-design car associated with the RB3, not a Red Bull entry.
  • RB4 (2008): The next Red Bull season car.
  • STR4 (2009): The last Toro Rosso design attributed to Newey in the illustrated account; a related car, not a Red Bull entry.
  • RB5 (2009): Red Bull’s 2009 car.
  • RB6 (2010): A constructors’ title-winning car.
  • RB7 (2011): A constructors’ title-winning car.
  • RB8 (2012): A constructors’ title-winning car.
  • RB9 (2013): A constructors’ title-winning car.
  • RB10 (2014): Red Bull’s next listed season car.
  • RB11 (2015): Newey-associated Red Bull design.
  • RB12 (2016): Newey-associated Red Bull design.
  • RB13 (2017): Newey-associated Red Bull design.
  • RB14 (2018): Newey-associated Red Bull design.
  • RB15 (2019): Newey-associated Red Bull design.
  • RB16 (2020): Red Bull’s 2020 car.
  • RB16B (2021): The 2021 F1 car, listed as a drivers’ title car. It is not called the RB17.
  • RB18 (2022): Designed for the return of ground-effect regulations. Suspension and aerodynamic-platform choices were central to managing bouncing. It won the constructors’ title.
  • RB19 (2023): A constructors’ title-winning car. Formula 1 reported 15 wins from 16 Grands Prix as of September 29, 2023; that dated figure is not a final-season tally.
  • RB20 (2024): The latest Red Bull car in this inventory.

The name RB17 belongs to a Red Bull hypercar, not the 2021 F1 car. Formula 1’s 2024 retrospective says Red Bull won 38 of 44 races across the 2022–23 seasons; that is a two-season team total, not an RB19-only figure.

Aston Martin: 2026

AMR26 (2026): Formula 1 identified this as Newey’s first Aston Martin F1 car in its February 3, 2026 report. Newey, Aston Martin’s Managing Technical Partner, described the scale of the new regulations: “2026 is probably the first time in the history of F1 that the power unit regulations and chassis regulations have changed at the same time,” according to an interview for the team’s official website.

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Which of Newey’s cars won championships?

Formula 1’s total of 12 refers to constructors’ titles associated with Newey’s cars; it does not mean that all 12 also won the drivers’ championship. The official title list identifies:

  • Williams: FW14B (1992), FW15C (1993), FW16 (1994), FW18 (1996) and FW19 (1997).
  • McLaren: MP4/13 (1998). Formula 1’s retrospective separately lists the MP4/14 as a drivers’ title car in 1999.
  • Red Bull: RB6 (2010), RB7 (2011), RB8 (2012), RB9 (2013), RB18 (2022) and RB19 (2023). The RB16B (2021) is listed as a drivers’ title car.

Jonathan M. Gitlin’s May 5, 2024 Ars Technica article characterized Newey’s record as “12 championship-winning cars in 32 years.” That is the author’s framing at that publication date, while Formula 1’s figure specifically counts constructors’ titles.

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