Sunday, 22 May 2011

Adrian Newey: The hottest property in F1 but what is his secret? - Profiles, People - The Independent

Adrian Newey: The hottest property in F1 but what is his secret? - Profiles, People - The Independent

So, your aim is for your Formula One team to win the World Championship. But do you invest $25 million (£15m)and sign Lewis Hamilton, Sebastian Vettel or Fernando Alonso? Or do you rustle up significantly less than that (though still a plentiful bundle of boodle) and wave it in Adrian Newey's direction?

More than anything, that is the measure of the balding, self-effacing engineer, whose creations have won World Championships for Williams, McLaren and Red Bull since 1992. If you want to define genius in Formula One terms, Newey is as good a way to do it as any driver's greatest performance.

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