Verstappen a pipe dream until Aston build a better car says Newey

MONACO - Aston Martins chances of signing Max Verstappen will be a pipe dream until they have a car good enough for Red Bulls four-times world champion, according to the teams design great Adrian Newey.

Newey, whose cars have won multiple Formula One championships for three teams, joined Aston from Red Bull in March with speculation Verstappen might eventually link up with him again.

Verstappen has won two of seven races this season and is third overall behind McLarens Oscar Piastri and Lando Norris while Aston Martin are seventh in the standings and far from the podium places.

Double world champion Fernando Alonso, now 43, has yet to score.

In Monaco to attend a race for the first time since his move, Newey was asked the inevitable questions about Verstappens future.

Max is clearly a phenomenal talent, and hes a supreme competitor and part of that means that Max likes to break things down to a simple common equation, he told reporters.

And that is, in this particular case, choosing the team that he believes will deliver the fastest car. So if were to ever attract Max, the first thing we have to do is make a fast car.

Its a pipe dream about anything else from there.

The Briton said it had been easy to settle into his new surroundings and, while focused on next years car, had spent time assessing how the team worked and the strengths and weaknesses.

He singled out the driver-in-the-loop simulator as requiring a lot of work, while the new wind tunnel was arguably the best in Formula One.

It (the simulator) is not correlating (to the track) at all at the moment, which is a fundamental research tool and not having that is a limitation, added Newey, who said fixing the simulator would