Coluna do Mark Webber

Saiu hoje no site da BBC uma coluna do Mark Webber, puxando muito o saco do Adrian Newey. Alguns trechos:

“If you are massively overweight, the first few kilos are quite easy to lose but then it just gets harder and harder. It is the same in F1 - if you are massively off the pace, it is easier to find big improvements in your car than if you are already quick.”

“These new rules this year are pretty tight and you have only got a set area to work in. Eventually that area becomes even tighter because as you do more work, you find there are more restrictions in the avenues you can use to develop the car. That is where you need to find yourself an engineering genius and luckily we have one at Red Bull. His name is Adrian Newey - our chief technical officer.”

“In the 1990s, he took the Williams and the McLaren cars on to another level and made racing incredibly boring in the process. The other cars looked pretty much prehistoric compared to some of the ones Adrian had designed.”

“Adrian is also incredibly competitive - that was one of the first things I noticed very early on with him. You do not always see that level of competitiveness from geniuses or engineers at his level, you usually get it from the people on the front line like the drivers but he is just so bloody competitive as well, which is fantastic.”

“Adrian has always got a pencil in his hand and he is very, very good with it. He will do a little drawing for you to show you a few things and he really makes it simple for you.” (Quer que eu desenhe no paintbrush?)

“And the fact that we have been so quick without so far using one of the 'double-decker' diffusers that have caused so much controversy this year is testament to the fact that the concept is fantastic.”

A coluna completa esta AQUI.