[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"header-nav":3,"footer-nav":29,"article-newey-mclaren-mp4-18-vs-aston-martin-amr26-tech-link":82,"category-counts-nav":98,"related-newey-mclaren-mp4-18-vs-aston-martin-amr26-tech-link":108},[4,8,11,14,17,20,23,26],{"label":5,"to":6,"exact":7},"Home","\u002F",true,{"label":9,"to":10},"World Cup","\u002Fworldcup",{"label":12,"to":13},"Standings","\u002Fstandings",{"label":15,"to":16},"Football","\u002Fcategory\u002Ffootball",{"label":18,"to":19},"Basketball","\u002Fcategory\u002Fbasketball",{"label":21,"to":22},"Tennis","\u002Fcategory\u002Ftennis",{"label":24,"to":25},"F1","\u002Fcategory\u002Ff1",{"label":27,"to":28},"Long Reads","\u002Fcategory\u002Flong-reads",{"brand":30,"columns":32,"tagline":80,"copyright":81},{"description":31},"In-depth sports journalism covering football, basketball, tennis, F1, and beyond. 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All rights reserved.",{"title":83,"slug":84,"category":85,"badge":86,"author":87,"excerpt":88,"date":89,"readTime":90,"image":91,"imageAlt":83,"tags":92,"body":96,"_path":97},"Newey's Unraced McLaren Holds Secrets in Aston Martin's AMR26","newey-mclaren-mp4-18-vs-aston-martin-amr26-tech-link","f1","Technical","Jake Morrison","Mark Hughes reveals how Adrian Newey's never-raced McLaren MP4-18 shares surprising DNA with Aston Martin's current AMR26 contender.","2026-08-06 01:39:31","1 min read","\u002Fimages\u002Farticles\u002Fnewey-mclaren-mp4-18-vs-aston-martin-amr26-tech-link.webp",[46,86,93,94,95],"McLaren","Aston Martin","Adrian Newey","## Newey's Unraced McLaren, Raced Again\n\nAdrian Newey's McLaren MP4-18 sits in F1 history as a car built but never raced. It never crossed a start line in a Grand Prix weekend, never tested its philosophy under race conditions, and never proved whether Newey's vision at McLaren would have succeeded or failed.\n\nMark Hughes is examining it now.\n\nThe F1 technical expert has drawn a side-by-side comparison between the MP4-18 and the Aston Martin AMR26, the car Aston Martin are currently campaigning. Hughes, who has spent decades in F1 technical boxes, sees a clear through-line between the two at the core of their design thinking. The MP4-18 and the AMR26 are separated by years of regulation change, different power unit suppliers, and vastly different team environments. The similarities Hughes identifies suggest that certain principles in Newey's design language are not era-dependent. They travel.\n\nAston Martin are establishing themselves as a genuine title challenger. The AMR26 is their most ambitious project, and every technical decision on it will be scrutinised. The MP4-18 was Newey at McLaren, applying his design philosophy to a package that never got its chance. The AMR26 is Newey at Aston Martin, giving that same philosophy a new home.\n\nIf the design philosophy behind an unraced McLaren nearly three decades ago is still driving the AMR26's development, then the parallels Hughes highlight carry weight beyond theory. They map the technical instincts behind Aston Martin's current project. 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