Car and Driver participates in various affiliate marketing programs, which means that Car and Driver receives commissions from purchases made through links to sellers' sites.The engineer behind the Red Bull single-seaters reflects on a successful season and the causes that have led to these achievements.Adrian Newey is undoubtedly the most renowned engineer in current Formula 1, who has managed to join the olympus of the great minds that have marked the history of the category along with Brawn, Chapman, Head, Murray... being responsible for brilliant ideas and concepts that have decided many championships from the 1990s to the present.What has allowed him to achieve star status and be one of the most valuable assets in this sport, something very meritorious from his position since the work of engineers tends to be invisible to the general public.And it is that despite its prolific history, this 2022 Red Bull season promises to break all records and statistics, with a team-driver tandem, one of the strongest in recent years, as evidenced by the fact that that Max Verstappen can become the driver with the most victories in a season in the history of F1, and that the RB18 is to date the car with the highest percentage of victories of those Newey has designed –with 77.77%– , data on which the same engineer spoke a few days ago: “I'm not very good with numbers, but it's very gratifying to know!Obviously we've had a good run”, says Adrian Newey, who can't hide the success this season has brought them.With regard to this success, Newey proceeded to review the causes and determining factors for Red Bull to have managed to prevail over Ferrari after an unstable start to the season, in which Horner's team won 1 victory and 3 retirements in the first 3 races from 2022: “I think Ferrari had a very fast car from the start, and in a lot of races, to be honest, they were probably a little faster.But I think we have managed to round out the performance of the car to try to make it work on all circuits”, analyzes the former Williams and McLaren emphasizing the crucial challenge of designing a car that is as balanced as possible, a challenge that they have embroidered throughout this season.However, Newey did not want to detract from the work of the rest of the staff who work daily in Milton Keynes and on the circuits to make the team work perfectly, highlighting among them the role of another of the great managers of this domain: "Max It has been absolutely magnificent this year.Obviously, in the Singapore traffic he made a little mistake, but other than that, he hasn't made any at all.He has been very mature and always had the speed, so I think he deserves all the success he is having this year”, concluded Adrian Newey about the young star they have cared for for many years and who is now a two-time F1 world champion.