'Obscene' Adrian Newey salary demand in Christian Horner book claim

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It has been revealed that when Adrian Newey decided to move from McLaren to Red Bull F1 in 2005, team founder Dietrich Mateschitz was furious over salary negotiations and initially ordered the move to be cancelled. At the time, Red Bull's team principal was…

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Christian Horner revealed the particularly turbulent backstage of the recruitment of Adrian Newey by Red Bull in 2005, an operation that would profoundly transform the history of the Austrian stable. In his memoirs, the former team director tells how the financial demands formulated by the British engineer's wife had provoked the anger of Dietrich Mateschitz, founder of Red Bull. While he thought he could attract Newey with an annual salary of f…