Adrian Newey hails the 2010 season with Red Bull as his best in F1 ever
The very successful name in the technical realm of Formula One, Adrian Newey has bagged a number of awards and recognitions all through his career. However, he believes that nothing has ever been more special to him than his latest achievements with the
Red Bull Racing.
Newey is the chief technical officer of the Austrian team, and has designed the fastest car on the 2010 grid, the RB6, for the Red Bull Racing. With the super speed of the team’s car, the two very fast and furious drivers, Sebastian Vettel and Mark Webber
under the leadership of the youngest team boss, Christian Horner, were able to bag both, the drivers’ as well as the constructors’ championship of the 2010 season. Newey considers this season’s titles as the biggest achievement of his career which gives him
a lot of satisfaction.
During his long career in the sport, Newey has made a very fine repute for himself and is widely hailed as one of the most brilliant men in the engineering and car designing area of the sport. Although he has bagged constructors' titles earlier as well,
while being part of the other teams, but having won this seventh constructors’ championship with the Red Bull Racing makes him more delighted than ever before.
While talking to the media this Friday he said, "It is. I was very privileged to work with Williams and then McLaren, two great teams but they had already had the infrastructure and won championships prior to my arrival so my job was very much a design job.
Here, I've been with the team more or less from the start in developing the team with everybody, developing the infrastructure, getting the communications working through the team and so it's been a different challenge and a challenge which has in some ways
been even more satisfying."
It is believed largely that Newey has played the most crucial role in the team for bringing both the trophies home. Other than the team boss, he is considered to be the man behind making the team as successful as it stands today, in just their sixth season
on the track. Among many other contributions, his most innovative inventions for the team, in 2010 were the blown rear diffuser and the flexible front wing. These two gave an unmatched speed to the team’s package giving an advantage to the team drivers on
others present on the grid. All through the season McLaren and Ferrari, the biggest rivals of the team kept struggling behind the Red Bull, but were mostly not able to chase its high speed.
While recalling different events of the season, the 51-year-old said, "It's a compliment but a slightly tiring compliment at the time because it's just extra hassle on some of them. Of course the job of the FIA is to arbitrate so when mud starts being thrown,
they have to get involved and so we have to demonstrate the car is fully legal so it's a small distraction but a compliment overall."
The team’s Technical Director believes that the upcoming season is going to see even more thrill and competition on the 2011 track. He is adamant to come again next year with a renewed pace and strength for the team, and aims to stay at the top next year
as well. He believes that the team will be able to adjust nicely with the new Pirelli tyres while he reckons that the changed FIA regulations regarding the flexible front wing will also prove to be very complementing for the team’s new car.
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