Adrian Newey’s reputation precedes him. When you’ve won enough titles in Formula 1, you tend to cultivate a certain mythology about one’s person: in Newey’s case, it is that he’s the short-cut and the cheat-code to victory.
Thus, when Aston Martin’s AMR26 – the first of the team’s cars that Newey has had a hand in – emerged on Thursday afternoon, the mythologising began in earnest. An aggregate of those thoughts seemed to hinge on the differing visual cues of the car, declaring that “Newey had done it again”.
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