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Adrian Newee. He's a man in the news at the moment, isn't he, with these difficulties with the Aston Martin.

And it's, Adrian's always, because he's, he pushes so hard, he often gets himself in a situation where it's sort of on that fine line, doesn't he?

It's, it works more often than it doesn't work, but it's sometimes dumps them in the poo a bit like this.

You know, who knows it probably will come good eventually, but at the moment, it's, it's, it's, it's like that, isn't it?

Is, what, was that, was that your feeling when you were working with Adrian?

Well, I think that when I was with Adrian, he'd already been at Williams for a season or two, maybe one season.

But he was one of the reasons I went there.

I mean, I knew that this was going to be really interesting

because his March Formula One car clearly had ruffled some feathers

and really showed the direction of travel

because up until they're in the cast.

You look at them, they're like boxes.

And suddenly this guy turns up

and goes so we can

we can shape carbon

fiber chassis instead of it

just being the box

and then the wing

the aerodynamics being the wings

we can use the airflow

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