pantherxxx wrote: ↑28 Aug 2025, 22:54
Well, McLaren actually improved after Newey left the team. The 2006 car he designed was only the third-best, while the 2007 challenger was arguably the best car on the grid. And they built that without Newey. If he truly is this all-knowing genius who single-handedly guarantees success, then how do you explain that? Newey is a brilliant designer, but he’s not a one-man army. Success in F1 comes from organization, resources, and execution as much as from individual brilliance. Adrian Newey has almost always worked with top teams with huge budgets and resources. In other words, Newey’s genius is real — but it’s also amplified because he’s always had the perfect platform to execute his ideas. If he were chief designer at a midfield team with half the budget (say, Sauber back in the day), it’s very unlikely his cars would have dominated.
I think he is a great tech leader like Brawn he pushes people hard and is good at editing, directing and tweaking, bit like Apple they are good at tweaking other companies innovation and making them popular.things like fric .f1 duct, merc fancy steering were invented somewhere not at redbull. Colin Chapman was the last true great f1 innovator.
