I Nominate Red Bull’s Adrian Newey!
Come on, who will step up and second Newey’s nomination to the Wrecked Exotics Hall of Infamy? Who will it be? You? Or maybe it will be you. Someone has to recognize his efforts to rid the world of it’s classic automobiles. The blasphemy must stop!
Red Bull technical chief Adrian Newey had to spend a night in hospital after being knocked out in his second major crash in two months at the Goodwood Revival Meeting at the weekend.The former McLaren and Williams designer was driving his Jaguar E-type lightweight when he was involved in an accident in practice at the historical meeting - spinning across the grass and in to the barriers.
For full disclosure this classic Jag E-Type wasn’t damaged heavily. However I base my nomination on a pattern of “Classic Car Abuse.” (an affliction to be studied at a later date by the world’s preeminent Quacks… er, psychologists)
As the provided excerpt demonstrates this was his second “offense.” In July Newey was party to an attempt to desecrate the low sleek lines of a classic GT40 Ford at the Le Mans classic event.
This pattern of “Classic Car Abuse” must STOP! What’s next? Will Newey next take on an Audi Quattro and wrap it around a tree or stuff a late sixties Porsche 911 into an Armco Barrier?
It’s a very slippery slope from a GT40 to the next pile of junk that once was a Lamborghini Countach!
So, who’s with me? Who will second my nomination?
P.S. Newey wasn’t hurt after his E-Type was “pushed out onto the grass” while going three wide into a turn.
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Wreck one classic car, shame on you: if you are allowed to wreck two, shame on us all. Yank his drivers liscense and his check book before he does it again. At the least he could have run over Max Mosley as part of his sacrifical ceremony! At least the cars loss would have meant something.
I remember reading in Autosport that Adrian had competed in a charity karting event while at Williams, Damon Hill joked that there was a gap between his ability & his confidence.
I see a lot of agreement but no hands raised to second my nomination from you two.
Peter I tend to think Hill had it only partially correct. If Newey wants to risk these classics sudden demise there is a failed connection, “gap” as it were, between his head and right foot.