Adrian Newey, who is expected to be confirmed by Aston Martin later this morning, will walk into a new home in F1 next year - an environment that will have an undeniably familiar feel to it.
When Adrian Newey steps into Aston Martin's Silverstone campus in 2025, it will be a fresh start in a new environment.
In joining from Red Bull, with is expected to be announced later this morning, Newey is travelling just 20 miles up the road from his current home in F1.
However, in many ways, he is travelling 19 years back.
What may seem, on first glance, like a step into the unknown, will actually be surprisingly familiar to the 65-year-old, having trodden the same path once before, in 2006, when he joined Red Bull.
And maybe that's the point.
There are significant parallels to be drawn upon the fledgling Red Bull team all those years ago and the Aston Martin team that welcomes Newey now.
Plucky outsider
Firstly, both scenarios involve a team on the periphery of contention.
Skipping over the Jaguar years, the outfit that became Red Bull first tasted victory in 1999, when Johnny Herbert won the European Grand Prix for the operation owned by - and bearing the name of - Jackie Stewart.
However, that triumph was a flash in the pan, akin to Sergio Perez's Sakhir Grand Prix win for Racing Point in 2020.
Separating those victories and Newey joining each respective team lay years of fairly consistent points finishes and a number of podiums, but, crucially, no follow-up trips to the top set of the rostrum.
Aston Martin has undoubtedly enjoyed more success than Jaguar did during the early 2000s, but given the level of expectation, it has perhaps equally under-delivered thus far - and therein lies the second parallel.
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