And if the secret to having closer fights in F1 if not to add, but to remove… for example, to remove the brilliant and chameleon-like Newey from the Circus? Maybe see him yes in the paddock, but as a “luxury” tourist, with a “superVip” pass and nothing else? A provocation you say? Not so much… let’s try to think about it some ways that could help us. Some useful scenarios for understanding a fantastic and hypothetical situation.
Seeing him in Ferrari would be really nice. For many reasons. Because only the mythical Mauro Forghieri it was comparable to one like Newey (and vice versa), because it would be nice if there were a single-seater Maranello drawn on the drawing board by mister-caterva-of-world-titles and so on. Someone turns up their nose: it would be nice to beat him! Have we ever succeeded? Obviously, beating him would be worth double. The enjoyment would reach unexplored heights. But let’s be clear: the statistics don’t lie in this regard.
Given the current castrating rules, who gets insurance Adrian Newey he is almost certain not to win, but to dominate. If obviously the goodness of a single-seater cannot be attributed only to him, it can be said that it is above all thanks to him. Or of his intuitions, of his desire to experiment, of the overall exasperation of every component of the single-seater. And anyone who knows a little about technique and is much more familiar than me with the secret arts of aerodynamics and chassis engineering knows this well.
Once he is removed from the equation, it is not an implausible hypothesis that all the team, including those at the top, are much closer to each other. So? Well, we could use the “Binda award” from about a century ago. We didn’t invent anything. Just look at history, in this case of cycling. Oh yes, the “Binda award”, from the surname of the person who accepted this equitable solution, so to speak, way back 1930. Exactly 94 years ago.
Newey out of F1 action
Alfredo Binda In the 1930 it wasn’t a new name in cycling. In the 1927 won his second Tour of Italy:12 stages up 15 and sidereal gaps to the opponents. 27 minutes on the second, over thirty-six on the third. In the 1928 And ‘29 he won again without problems. And so, in 1930was paid by the organizers of Tour of Italy For do not participate. They offered him 22,500 lire (a considerable sum at the time, you could buy a decent-sized house in the Milanese suburbs). Being too strong, the other cyclists did not want to be humiliated by Binda.
“What do you do at the Giro if he’s there?” they said to each other. He thought about unraveling the mess Emilio Colombodirector of Journal of the Sport (who organized the Tour of Italy). We had to invent something to avoid finding ourselves with a handful of runners at the start who were already in bad spirits due to the obvious outcome. So? Well… “Let’s leave the Binda at home”. Eureka! Ours willingly accepted. Everyone happy including the person directly involved.
Now, if Sundays had a little of the sagacity of Ecclestoneinstead of thinking about increasing the competition sprintgiving the impression of wanting to suck all the milk from the prosperous (for now) breasts of the F1, and worked to make Adrian Newey’s future golden and far from the highest category of motorsport, he would probably do something different and original compared to the script he is following with accounting and accounting seriousness. Provocation, therefore, between the serious and the facetious… returning to the bomb: perhaps, the true solution to the enigma of boredom in F1 it would be a golden retreat from Adrian.
And you, what do you think?
Author: Mariano Froldi – @MarianoFroldi
Images: Scuderia Ferrari – Oracle Red Bull Racing – Adrian Newey
