Adrian Newey shuffles into the room on the top deck of Aston Martin’s paddock home in Monaco and smiles. “Ta-da,” he says, as if he has appeared from behind a curtain in a magic show. Then, as he makes his way over to a table that has been laid out for him in front of a handful of journalists,

Aston Martin's chances of signing Max Verstappen will be a 'pipe dream' until they have a car good enough for Red Bull's four-time world champion, according to the team's design great Adrian Newey.

Aston Martin F1's technical partner says "there's no point in pipe-dreaming" about snapping up Max Verstappen just yet