Adrian Newey: Greatest Formula 1 race car designer ever

Adrian Newey is Chief Technical Officer for Red Bull Racing.  He has won 13 drivers' championships and 12 constructors' championships across three teams in his career. He is widely regarded as the greatest Formula 1 race car designer in the history of the sport.

 

Some interesting insights from this episode:

·       Racing teams have three departments: aerodynamics, vehicle design, and vehicle dynamics/simulation.  Because Adrian had worked in each of those disciplines, it provided a more holistic perspective when designing racing cars. 

·       A good design engineer must be both left brained and right brained - that is, combining the artistic imaginative left side with the analytical and practical right side.

·       He is still old school in that he prefers a drawing board and pencil over CAD (computer aided design) systems.

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