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10-05-2009, 06:19 AM
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Adrian Newey: a look back at three great designs by F1's current man of the moment ..
Yesterday Sebastian Vettel scored Red Bull Racing's fourth win of the season with the Adrian Newey penned RB5. The quality of Newey's design is underlined by the fact that the similarly engined Renault works team has not been close to winning a race once this year. To celebrate the hugely talented Englishman's already lengthy career, we today take a closer look at three distinct racing cars he was involved with.
Newey kicked off his career at March where he helped develop the manufacturers 1980s Group C and GTP cars. These were among the quickest machines in the IMSA GTP series until the arrival of the Porsche Works team in 1984. The winningest of all is this 83G Porsche, which was driven to numerous wins in the 1983 season and helped Al Holbert win the championship. At the start of 1984, chassis 83G/04 also took victory in the grueling Daytona 24 Hours race. Later in the decade Newey penned an unusually narrow single-seater for the return of March to Formula 1. By 1990 the team had been renamed Leyton House and campaigned the Newey designed CG901 Judd. It did not perform particularly well in the first half of the season, which was discovered to be down to a wind-tunnel calibration error. Newey developed a 'B-Spec' aero package but he could not enjoy the fruits of his labour as he was fired because of the poor results. In his absence the CG901B came achingly close to winning the French Grand Prix at Paul Ricard. Poor reliability saw both drivers slip from the lead of the race. The dismissal from Leyton House only helped Newey's career along as he was hired by Williams where he would go on to design multiple championship winning machines. One of them was the FW18 Renault, which was used by Damon Hill and Jacques Villeneuve to win 12 of the 16 races in the 1996 World Championship. Hill won the championship ahead of his team-mate and Williams clinched its fourth Contructor's trophy in five seasons. Enjoy the links: 1990 Leyton House CG901 Judd - Images, Specifications and Information 1983 March 83G Porsche - Images, Specifications and Information 1996 Williams FW18 Renault - Images, Specifications and Information
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10-05-2009, 07:07 AM
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some bonus shots of the March
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10-05-2009, 10:01 AM
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With the help of Williams F1, we have further completed our FW18 article: 1996 Williams FW18 Renault - Images, Specifications and Information
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If you should see a man walking down a crowded street talking aloud to himself, don't run in the opposite direction, but run towards him, because he's a poet. You have nothing to fear from the poet - but the truth. (Ted Joans)
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