Adrian Newey’s safety fears over new low nose on F1 cars
Red Bull engineer says new design may cause ‘torpedoing’ ‘It’s introduced possibly more dangers than it has cured’
Adrian Newey, Red Bull’s technical director and the most respected designer in Formula One, is worried about the safety of the new low nose which is the most conspicuous feature of this year’s radical technological changes.
On the first morning of the opening testing session in southern Spain, which was remarkably quiet as teams came to terms with their complex new engines, Newey said: "The regulation has been introduced following some research by the FIA [the sport’s governing body] which suggests that nose height reduces the chance of cars being launched [into the air] like the accident that Mark Webber had when he hit the back of Heikki Kovalainen in Valencia a few years ago.
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