Adrian Newey: critical of 'restrictive' F1 regulations

[Monty]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/28594309
I know this year is producing some good racing but I have to agree with Newey. I fully understand the need to reduce costs but I feel sure it would be possible to restrict extreme solutions without prescribing an almost fixed design.
Personally I used to like it when a team found a way of mounting a bizarre 'winglet' on some unlikely piece of bodywork and suddenly found a couple of tenths. I know sometimes the cars looked a bit ugly but let's face it they are hardly sexy now!

[cosworth151]

I agree, Monty. It had a bit of "Where's Waldo" to it. More seriously, it allowed teams to try to correct mistakes they might have made with their original designs. Now, if a team misses the mark at the start of the year, their entire season is ruined.

[Jericoke]

I would think that aerodynamics is the one area where a small budget team can defeat the 'big boys'.  Granted, big budget teams can endlessly test a dozen designs to come up with the best solution, but a small budget team can come up with a single better solution and beat the pants off the big boys.

Open up the aero rules:  let the cars go crazy.

[John S]

I would think that aerodynamics is the one area where a small budget team can defeat the 'big boys'.  Granted, big budget teams can endlessly test a dozen designs to come up with the best solution, but a small budget team can come up with a single better solution and beat the pants off the big boys.

Open up the aero rules:  let the cars go crazy.

Sorry to disappoint you Jeri but it's exactly the opposite with Aero, the more money you can throw at it -in the right way of course - the better your car will be. The minnows just can't compete with either the design office staff and wind tunnel, or the rapid making of multiple parts to try - and mostly disregard.   

Newey is wrong though, in IMHO, yes it's becoming harder to find the killer features to innovate in F1, but hasn't it always appeared that way? 

Every few years Adrian becomes bored with what he is doing with a particular team, now his threshold has been passed at RBR so instead of moving to another team he is defending his sideways move to other projects with this swipe at F1's limited horizons.   

I wish for once you'd just admit your bored with what you're doing Adrian and move on, I don't remember Ross Brawn blaming restrictive F1 regs for his fishing sabbatical.