So you have all these constraints, we really need to use existing tyres. “We need to patch in two people, and you have got to assume that at least one of those is quite tall. “Of course it has physics regulations,” he said. It wasn’t quite the same approach for Newey when it came to designing the RB17 for the real world. Photo by: Carl Bingham / Motorsport Images This made use of fan car technology and was a lightweight, 1,400 bhp canopied single-seater, which beat the F1 track record at Suzuka by 20 seconds during a simulator run.Īdrian Newey: 'We decided on Formula 1 levels of performance, but in something that is relatively comfortable, relatively easy to run.' Newey got a taste of what it is like to design a car with no limitations back in 2010, when he came up with a concept design for the Gran Turismo video game series, the Red Bull X2010.

But the reality is such a thing rarely exists. The idea of a blank canvas - or a blank drawing board, which Newey famously still uses for all his designs - is something that excites all designers.

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