{"id":256092,"date":"2025-11-01T19:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256092\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T19:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T19:55:09","slug":"newey-reveals-the-secrets-of-f1-design-espionage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/256092\/","title":{"rendered":"Newey reveals the secrets of F1 design espionage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/adrian-newey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/adrian-newey\" title=\"Adrian Newey\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Adrian Newey<\/a><\/a> is often seen examining rival cars on the Formula One grid, keenly jotting down thoughts with his notepad in hand.The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1-teams\/aston-martin-f1-team\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Aston Martin<\/a> Managing Technical Partner revealed the two reasons why he likes to observe competitors\u2019 designs in person, sharing inside details on the game technical espionage that takes place up and down the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gpblog.com\/en\/f1\" title=\"F1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">F1<\/a> grid.<\/p>\n<p>He told the James Allen on F1 podcast: \u201cI think all teams have effectively spy photographers. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGenerally speaking the other teams know who those spy photographers are and run around trying to cover things up. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we end up with god knows how many thousand pictures each race weekend. You then try to use whatever software to categorize them et cetera.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut nevertheless, you&#8217;ve got this huge amount of photographs which you could easily spend the next week looking through if you weren&#8217;t careful. <\/p>\n<p>Nicknamed \u2018the man who can see air\u2019, Newey has an old-school approach towards F1 design. He prefers sketching his ideas onto a drawing board and finds it a more intuitive process to modern CAD (computer-aided design) technology.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"500\" height=\"280\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/adrian-newey-saudi-arabia-6905d3d999a24.jpeg@webp.webp\" class=\"w-auto h-auto\" alt=\"adrian-newey-saudi-arabia\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Adrian Newey&#8217;s trademark stance with his notepad in hand &#8211; Photo: RacePictures<\/p>\n<p>His fondness for in-person examinations of rival cars follows the same mould.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI look at cars on the grid for two reasons. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFirst of all because the photographs you get are clearly in 2D and quite often they&#8217;re not quite the angle you&#8217;re interested in. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSecondly, it&#8217;s just time efficient to be perfectly honest. I&#8217;ve hopefully got enough of an eye that I can spot something of interest that, by looking at it in 3D, I would spend ages trying to find in a 2D series of 2000 photos or whatever it might be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Want to stay up-to-date with what happens in the F1 paddock? Then GPblog&#8217;s F1 Paddock Update video is the perfect way to do it. Subscribe to GPblog&#8217;s YouTube channel and turn on notifications to never miss the latest episodes.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Adrian Newey is often seen examining rival cars on the Formula One grid, keenly jotting down thoughts with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256093,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[64,63,817,813,816,85],"class_list":["post-256092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-formula-1","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-f1","tag-formula-1","tag-formula1","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256092","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256093"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}