A tough season ended very well- Adrian Newey
Although Adrian Newey, the chief designer of the super fast RB6, has always been praised for his exceptional talent of car designing, yet all through the 2010 season he never went short of "sniping" from his rival teams. Newey
accepts that he tried to take all the criticism and charges very boldly, but actually they started to become "annoying after a while".
It was not very late that every team on the 2010 grid admitted that Red Bull’s RB6 is undisputedly the fastest car of the season. However, there have hardly been rounds when the team and especially the designer did not receive complaints from his rival teams
about the design and setting of the car.
After having bagged 15 pole positions and 9 race wins, the Austrian squad finally stood as the winner of both the Drivers’ as well as the Constructors’ Championship, only after their sixth season in the world’s biggest racing series. Their exceptional ability
to run low ride-heights in qualifying and their super flexible front wing, while became the biggest strength for the team, proved to be the worst talking point for its rivals.
After the ever rising speculations and charges on the team, FIA carried very stern and detailed tests for the car, but it came out clear of all the charges. Now, while reflecting at the way, the season unwrapped for the team, Newey said, "It was a season
that was a long and hard one, I must admit. It was marked by a lot of sniping which was a bit tiring after a while more than anything - that people could not just get on. It was the usual thing to try and consider it flattery but when you are always being
popped at, it does get annoying after a while."
Newey further explained saying that the team just worked very hard and got lucky that all the hard work paid them well. He proclaimed that at the start of the season they were not sure for having such immense success but always kept striving hard.
He concluded saying, "When we first came out with the car we weren't really sure where we were going to be with it, to be honest. There were some reasonable rule changes over the winter, with the ban on refuelling and the smaller front tyre, and the fact
that like most other teams we were developing a car with a double-diffuser by design so it was very difficult to forecast where we were going to end up.”
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