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[cheekybru]

Because otherwise Vet-hell will probably win the next 15 championships in a row.

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[What's Burning?]

Is that a command?

[cheekybru]

More a request

[darwin dali]

I'm all for it (the SV winning 15 bit)

[McLaren]

All depends what wage offers he gets I suppose

[darwin dali]

All depends what wage offers he gets I suppose

He's got enough dough by now - factors like team atmosphere, degree of freedom, etc., probably weigh in heavily.

[McLaren]

All depends what wage offers he gets I suppose

He's got enough dough by now - factors like team atmosphere, degree of freedom, etc., probably weigh in heavily.

Doesn't matter how rich you are ,if your offered £5 million more to do the same job at another company a lot of people would do it.

[What's Burning?]

All depends what wage offers he gets I suppose

He's got enough dough by now - factors like team atmosphere, degree of freedom, etc., probably weigh in heavily.

Doesn't matter how rich you are ,if your offered £5 million more to do the same job at another company a lot of people would do it.

There's a saturation point, Jerry Seinfeld reportedly turned down 110 million for a tenth season of his show.

[bud]

He will get bored again and want a new challenge elsewhere. One things for certain that challenge will never involve Ferrari. Newey has a bitter taste with that Team.

[McLaren]

He will get bored again and want a new challenge elsewhere. One things for certain that challenge will never involve Ferrari. Newey has a bitter taste with that Team.

I bet he couldn't win at McLaren again.There you go Adrian a challenge for you

[LewEngBridewell]

He will get bored again and want a new challenge elsewhere. One things for certain that challenge will never involve Ferrari. Newey has a bitter taste with that Team.

He never stays put for long.

And SV will NOT win 15 titles in a row, even Newey has designed duff cars every now and then. If Newey was the invincible God of Design people make him out to be, then 2000 - 2004 would have been a very different story...

[Fred_C_Dobbs]

The most difficult adversity to survive is ...success. Success begets egos and ego begets power struggles and alters priorities. That crazy Japanese bint could never have managed to split up the Beatles if Lennon and McCartney hadn't both already grown swelt heads.

...If Newey was the invincible God of Design people make him out to be, then 2000 - 2004 would have been a very different story...

Newey has designed eight WDC-winning cars, more than any other designer in F1 history, more than ACBC or Byrne. And next season will make nine. And Newey is only mid-50s. Should be steam enough in the ol' boiler for another three or four. If that doesn't elevate him to g-d status, it surely must qualify him as a minor deity.


EDIT:
"...[W]hat is clear is that [Red Bull] are the only team that has this genius that is Adrian Newey...."
-- Stefano Domenicali

[bud]

If Newey was the invincible God of Design people make him out to be, then 2000 - 2004 would have been a very different story...

This was the time frame he was losing interest in F1 and looking elsewhere to yachting for example. He said he felt disheartened by the favouritism Ferrari were recieving from the FIA with innovations he'd come up with get knocked back at the whim of Ferrari. Which is why I am certain this bitterness will be too much for him to go there. Especially uprooting his family to move to Italy.

[GRHinPorts]

I dont think money would be an issue ever for Newey. Well at least not at Red Bull whilst they seem to have an open cheque policy to pursuing success.

Of far more importance will be the boredom factor. If RBR and Vettel do go on an serious run of perpetual success then I think Adrian would get dulled out by that and either want a new challenge OR take his eye of the ball to such an extent that he will produce a duff design.

Always worth reflecting that this years RBR was probably only 0.3 seconds faster than its nearest competitor which is not that insurmountable for challengers.

The other thing with Newey IMO is that whilst he is a brilliant genius of a designer he has in the past been guilty of designing ultra fast but fragile cars where championships have been lost (think 1995, 2000, 2005) or nearly lost (think 1997, 1999 and 2010) due to unreliability. He therefore needs a team that makes sure some of his "wilder/brilliant" ideas actually work in a practical manner. RBR seem to have achieved this in 2011.

[geetface9]

If adrian wants a challenge he should move to virgin racing. marussia, whatever it is these days.