Red Bull technical guru Adrian Newey receives OBE by Queen Elizabeth II – Formula 1 news
Adrian Newey, the chief technical director of Red Bull Racing has received an award, Order of the British Empire (OBE) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in a ceremony which was held at Windsor Castle on Tuesday, for his relentless services for the world
of Autosport.
On receiving the award Newey said, “To be recognised by the Queen with an OBE is very flattering, I’m particularly proud of the fact that it’s for engineering achievements. I think so often engineers in the UK are overlooked and that’s a shame given our
proud roots through the Victorian area of developing industry and technology engineering. I feel real pride actually that I’ve been awarded that and a tremendous thank you to everybody who feels that’s been appropriate. I’ve had an enormously enjoyable career
and to be recognised as an engineer gives a very good feeling.”
The legendary Newey has designed the Red Bull car and they won the last two world constructors’ championship titles.
Moreover, they completely dominated during the preceding year and took 12 victories out of 19 Grands Prix with RB8 which was the British F1 engineer’s eighth championship winning car.
Newey has emerged as one of the most brilliant minds in the history of F1 while he is surely capable of being considered as the most successful car designer ever.
The Briton expressed his views regarding this year’s car and said that it is the fourth generation of RB5 which was designed back in 2009 while called RB8 as the great grandson of that car.
Nevertheless, it would be important to mention here that Red Bull have been facing difficulties with the upgrades made in the car during the final day of the last pre-season test held at Circuit de Catalunya in Barcelona in which they could only cover 23
laps and set the last best time.
Moreover, they could not be able to perform well during the qualifying of the first two races of the season.
Nonetheless, the defending champions are quite positive that they will hit back and will get back to the front as they are making the necessary developments and the essential preparations for the season ahead.
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