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Gardening Leave - Did It Fuel Newey’s Aston Martin?
Hook In 2024, Aston Martin’s design team logged 30 days of gardening leave before unveiling a new chassis, and that pause helped accelerate Adrian Newey’s contribution to the 2026 car. The answer is yes: the enforced downtime gave Newey space to rethink fundamentals, which translated into faster design