Newey unable to predict 2011 season

After Red Bull Racing won both the drivers' and the constructors' championships in the 2010 season, technical chief Adrian Newey, says that it is difficult to know whether the team will continue to dominate in 2011.

In the 2010, the RB6 developed with the mastery of Adrian Newey was clearly the car to beat in Formula 1, for most of the season. In the end, Sebastian Vettel became the youngest world champion ever, with his team-mate Webber fighting until the next round for the title and ending up in third place.

With changes happening very fast in Formula One, Red Bull’s technical chief is unable to predict what will happen next year and if the team will keep dominating.

"The truth is - and that is the great thing about motor racing - that things can change very quickly as we all know. If other people do a better job than we do over the winter then it will change," Newey told Autosport.

Although the team built the fastest car in the past two years, Newey considers that it doesn’t mean that the same will happen in 2011. Nevertheless, the technical chief of Red Bull Racing explains that being able to construct the fastest car in two consecutive seasons means that the team is understanding better the process of designing a decent car.

"I guess the concern is that as regulations stay stable, and you go deeper and deeper into a set of regulations, then it becomes more of an iterative process. Whether we can iterate as well as some of the more established teams has yet to be demonstrated," said Newey to Autosport.

Newey explained that no one was sure what was going to happen when the RB6 was being developed. “There were some reasonable rule changes over the winter, with the ban on refuelling and the smaller front tyre, and the fact that like most other teams we were developing a car with a double-diffuser by design so it was very difficult to forecast where we were going to end up,” said Newey.

"Through the winter testing we tried to just concentrate on our own programme and not get too phased by what people were or were not doing. We introduced a reasonable package just before the start of the first race and off we went from there."

Newey also admitted that it was annoying to have rival teams spending most of the season complaining about the RB6, over things they weren’t certain to be legal.

"It was a season that was a long and hard one, I must admit," he said. "It was marked by a lot of sniping which was a bit tiring after a while more than anything - that people could not just get on.