Technical director Adrian Newey says Red Bull’s current season is the “greatest series of successes” he has had in his illustrious Formula 1 career.
The famous car designer won his 25th championship (driver and constructor) last weekend at Suzuka, in a career spanning more than 30 years.
Red Bull’s 2023 RB19 car is arguably one of the most dominant cars the sport has ever seen, winning 15 of the first 16 races of the season and claiming both the constructors’ and almost certainly a drivers’ championship with Max Verstappen.
Now, Newey has revealed that this season has been one of the best of his career. He told Beyond: “This is the biggest streak of success I’ve ever had, we’ve been fortunate to be involved in cars that have dominated in the past, but we’ve never had this level of consistency.” ”. Podcast Grid.
“People might think that now everything is guaranteed and everything will go well, blah blah blah, the reality is there are so many things that can happen in a race, it’s always a matter of carrying two cars on arrival, preferably both near the front, week after week. .
“It’s a tough challenge because of all the things that can go wrong, reliability, accidents, strategy, performance, so to achieve it is really a tribute to all everybody.”
Newey’s career will go down in history, not least because he is the most successful car designer of all time in terms of championship wins.
At Williams early in his career, he won five championships in six years, before joining McLaren and winning two championships with Mika Hakkinen in 1998 and 1999.
He then moved to Jaguar F1 (which later became Red Bull Racing) and has now won six constructors’ titles with them as well as seven drivers’ championships.