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Future team-mates Mark Webber (Jaguar) and David Coulthard battle it out at the 2003 German Grand Prix at Hockenheim. Into the drivers\u2019 fight stormed Juan Pablo Montoya in the Williams- BMW, with Fernando Alonso in the Renault not far behind. It was just what F1 needed. Following the dismal 2002 season of total Schumacher dominance TV ratings had plunged. \u2018At about the season\u2019s mid-point, the World Champions, Ferrari, started to go backwards,\u2019 wrote Richard Williams in the Guardian. \u2018In Hungary ten days ago, Fernando Alonso\u2019s Michelin-shod Renault [Ferrari ran Bridgestone] actually lapped Schumacher\u2019s Ferrari, an event so grave that for a minute it felt as though it might lead to the fall of the Italian government.\u2019<\/p>\n

Max Mosley had never been a fan of Michelin boss Edouard Michelin after he opposed him in the FIA presidential race, and he saw an opportunity to score points against the tyre supplier. \u2018Now it has been announced by the FIA that Michelin\u2019s tyres are apparently infringing the regulations in a curious manner,\u2019 Williams wrote. \u2018When a Michelinshod car goes round a corner, its front tyres roll in such a way that a small part of their sidewalls come into contact with the track, increasing what the designers call the \u201ccontact patch\u201d and improving the car\u2019s grip.<\/p>\n

It is claimed that this takes the width of the tyres beyond the permitted maximum of 270mm. As a result, the Michelin-contracted teams have been warned that they may be liable to future disqualification \u2013 at, say, next week\u2019s Italian Grand Prix at Monza, where Ferrari are traditionally expected to produce results . . . DC has an oversteery moment at Monza in 2004. Coulthard failed to score a podium in his final season with McLaren, while his team-mate took a solitary win at Silverstone.<\/p>\n

\u2018Michelin says it has supplied the same tyres at all the season\u2019s 13 races. So why, given Formula 1\u2019s notorious attention to technical minutiae, was this anomaly not spotted before?\u2019 Why indeed. Mosley and Whiting had actually visited Maranello the week before the announcement, but in a characteristic patrician dismissal, Max said that tyres were only discussed \u2018in passing\u2019.<\/p>\n

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drian Newey was once asked if he could see air. It was a claim promoted by his former Red Bull boss Christian Horner, though in a light-hearted vein. \u2018No, of course not,\u2019 was the immediate reply, answered with scientific rigour. But then he thought about it some more. \u2018I can picture it,\u2019 Newey said, gazing into the middle distance. \u2018And if I try to be objective, that\u2019s perhaps one of my strengths \u2013 that I can actually picture things well in my mind\u2019s eye.\u2019<\/p>\n

He was talking about airflow. Many years spent with strands of wool attached to 1:25 and 1:40 scale models in wind tunnels located across the UK from Southampton to Kensington to Bicester and beyond have given him an uncanny ability to assess the effects of aerodynamic surfaces on drag and downforce. Enzo Ferrari famously said that aerodynamics was for people who could not build engines, but over the last forty years it has been the biggest performance differentiator between F1 cars. The arrival of the Mercedes hybrid engine in 2014 might have put a small dent in that theory, but the success of McLaren in winning the constructors\u2019 title in 2024 and 2025 with a customer Mercedes engine has shown that a team needs more than sheer bhp.<\/p>\n

Classifying Adrian Newey as the world\u2019s most influential motorsport aerodynamicist is only telling a fraction of the story. Although his degree from Southampton University was in aeronautical engineering, his childhood passion for building cars gave him an important insight into the mechanical engineering side of racing cars. When he joined March Engineering in Bicester \u2013 one of the principal chassis suppliers for the North American IndyCar and sports cars series \u2013 he was able to combine his work as a designer with race-engineering; for Johnny Cecotto, Bobby Rahal and Michael Andretti, before moving on to Newman-Haas and race-engineering Mario Andretti for a sky-high salary of $400,000 (in 1987).<\/p>\n

He had already proven his worth by designing the Indy 500-winning March 85C and the March 86C \u2013 his redesigned March sports car won the Daytona 24 Hours. The ability to listen to drivers\u2019 feedback and make adjustments to the car in response is one of Adrian\u2019s strongest suits. It\u2019s a quality acknowledged by former World Champion Alain Prost, who he helped win his fourth drivers\u2019 title in 1993. \u2018I loved talking to Adrian. Adrian is listening to you, asking questions all the time. You never have an argument with Adrian,\u2019 recalled the driver nicknamed \u2018The Professor\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u2018And it\u2019s fantastic for the engineers working with him, it brings energy and synergy in terms of the brain, that capacity is fantastic.\u2019 Adrian Newey\u2019s Aston Martin Valkyrie in its Le Mans spec. Aston Martin put a limited number of ten on sale in 2025 for \u00a35m. Newey steered Red Bull to eight drivers\u2019 titles and six constructors\u2019 championships.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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