Check out this article on Jalopnik.

Pretty awesome stuff.

This Is F1 Designer Adrian Newey On His Day Off - Formula One - Jalopnik

 

how can you not be a great designer if you understand cars from behind a sketch pad AND a drivers seat! gr8 post Dana!

editted just for you X!

 

Just to correct you.

Adrian Newey does NOT use a computer.

He uses a pencil and paper. He does have shape tools and stuff like that. The only time his designs see a computer are when they are getting made into molds or into models for the wind tunnel.

 

I saw him partner with Bobby Rahal in an E-Type Jag and win a race at last year's Goodwood Revival. He can certainly hold his own on track.

Jaguar beats Ferrari as Rahal and Newey bag RAC TT Celebration honours

Bobby Rahal and Adrian Newey claimed a brilliant win in the one-hour RAC TT Celebration mini-enduro aboard the latter’s Jaguar ‘Lightweight’ E-type. In the early stages, it was Le Mans veteran Jean-Marc Gounon who led the way with Rahal rarely more than a car’s length behind. Goodwood regular Emanuele Pirro gradually dropped back in third place aboard a Ferrari 330GTO with Rick Hall keeping a watching brief in fourth in an AC Cobra.


Just 0-6-seconds covered the leading pair at the 20-minute mark, although Rahal brilliantly sliced inside of Gounon on the entry into Fordwater soon thereafter, both drivers continuing to battle until the 38th minute when Hardman took over from Gounon. A lap later Rahal pitted to hand over to Newey who emerged trackside just as Hardman blasted by to lead into Madgwick. Five laps later and the car was pit-bound one again, this time for good. Newey assumed the lead while Pirro’s team-mate Bobby Verdon-Roe chased him down, taking as much as three seconds a lap out of the Red Bull F1 designer. But Newey raised his pace to take a popular win. Third place went to Hall and team-mate Andy Wolfe.

 

I think all of us already knew Newey is Fvcking awesome. This just makes him better.

 

I want Adrian Newey's job(s) so bad...