Red Bull technical director Adrian Newey says he likens his role as a parent of the team – Formula 1
Red Bull technical director Adrian Newey has said that he has absolutely no plans of leaving the team and has likened his relation with the team of a parent.
He expressed that if he walked away at this time it would be like a parent walking away from its child. There had been quite a few rumours of Newey joining other teams after 2012.
Newey joined Red Bull in 2006 and has been integral in the promotion of the team as one of the leading forces in Formula 1 to date. Newey has enjoyed success wherever he has gone, and was part of the McLaren team when they won the world title and he was
also part of Williams when they won the world title. Red Bull have so far won two back-to-back world titles under his technical expertise.
Newey though after the first day of the first pre-season test at Jerez explained that he has no plans to move anywhere in the recent future and is fully committed to Red Bull.
“To be perfectly honest I can't see myself going anywhere else and I've been involved in the team from very early on and feel very centrally involved in it,” he said. “I'm proud really that we managed to get where we were from the ashes of Jaguar to where
we are today. That in itself brings a huge amount of satisfaction and a slightly paternal feeling of wanting that to carry on. To now leave for another team would feel a little like walking out on your children.”
Newey also talked about the first test and said that apart from a minor glitch which caused Mark Webber to be delayed in his test start, he was quite content with the results so far. The delay was mainly due to some assembly parts of the rear wing arriving
late from the factory.
Webber set the fourth fastest lap on day one and although it is too early to come to any conclusions, it does shows that Red Bull will still be among the top teams at the grid without the advantage of the exhaust blown diffuser.
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