He's a remarkable man is Newey. His influence and legacy at Red Bull will ensure that they remain successful for a period after his departure but there's no doubting that in the long run they may never reach such stratospheric levels of brilliance ever again.
His instinctive understanding of the f1 car is so total and complete - he looks at an f1 car as one thing, not a thousand different things stuck together, which I fear is the way design teams are going with the trend now towards collaborative / committee technical structures. I guess that's the modern way, but in the modern way there's no way to marvel and idolise the ingenuity and brilliance of one guy. Colin Chapman, Adrian Newey, Gordon Murray, John Barnard, Rory Byrne, Ross Brawn...all phenomenal technical minds who were all equally as brilliant and pivotal to the sport as the legends that drove their cars. They are some of the finest artists the world has ever seen.
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