ADRIAN NEWEY

EMPLOYED BY WILLIAMS BETWEEN 1991 AND 1996, F1 engineer Newey (pictured left, with Frank Williams) has a career in the sport as illustrious as any driver’s. In recent years he’s become known for his contribution to Red Bull and Sebastian Vettel’s dominance, and prior to that he helped Mika Häkkinen score titles in 1998 and 1999, along with a constructors’ win for McLaren in ’98. But perhaps his best work was with Williams – in 1991 his then-new FW14 scored multiple victories in the hands of Nigel Mansell and Riccardo Patrese, and in 1992 the revised FW14B, one of the most advanced Grand Prix cars ever, dominated, with Mansell taking nine victories and Williams ten wins from 16 rounds. Prost then won in 1993, Damon Hill came close in 1994, and after a difficult ’95, the Patrick Head and Newey-designed FW18 was again dominant: between them, Hill and Jacques Villeneuve won 12 of the season’s 16 races.