What defines greatness in a Formula One driver? For Adrian Newey, architect of Max Verstappen’s championship-winning car, it is a multitude of things.
But the engineer in him is often less drawn to the one-lap speed or race craft. Instead, he says: “Great drivers — and I’d put Max in that category — know what they want from the car and know how to communicate with their race engineer as to what they want and how to achieve it.”
