{"id":2032499,"date":"2026-07-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2032499"},"modified":"2026-07-08T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T21:00:00","slug":"adrian-newey-and-others-will-drive-the-v10-rb17-at-goodwood-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/?p=2032499","title":{"rendered":"Adrian Newey (and others) will drive the V10 RB17 at Goodwood for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A group of very talented people will drive a very complicated and powerful car across someone\u2019s garden this weekend. To anyone heading to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, buckle up: the RB17<\/a> is entering the Earth\u2019s atmosphere.<\/p>\n

Having spent a while floating in the digital, concept, and design realms, Adrian Newey\u2019s spaceship<\/a> will finally make a landing and run for the first time at FoS. And it\u2019ll be driven by none other than\u2026 former Red Bull F1 tech genius Adrian Newey himself. Who\u2019s now working for Aston Martin.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cHe\u2019s allowed to [consult on the project], and he\u2019s still interested in what\u2019s going on,\u201d Red Bull Advanced Technology\u2019s tech boss Rob Gray told TopGear.com earlier this year, after news of Newey\u2019s departure sank in<\/a>. Quite a bit of interest, too.<\/p>\n

Photography: Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Not least because the centre of attention is a 4.5-litre Cosworth V10 entirely bespoke to the RB17. Alone it develops 1,000bhp and revs to an unholy 15,000rpm, and the exhaust has been tuned to mirror Newey\u2019s favourite F1 soundtrack: the McLaren-Mercedes MP4\/15. (There\u2019s also the not-so-small matter of an e-motor adding another 200bhp.)<\/p>\n

Guess you\u2019ll find out how it sounds this weekend. Or at least partly. It\u2019s unlikely to be run flat out, instead performing a series of demo runs as part of its testing and development programme. As well as Newey, Red Bull F1 driver Isack Hadjar, reserve driver Yuki Tsunoda and Red Bull Academy Programme driver Alisha Palmowski will also have a go in the RB17.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We\u2019re told the car\u2019s \u201cfull performance envelope\u201d will be further explored at dedicated tracks later this year. That\u2019ll be some envelope.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe ambition was to create a car capable of delivering a level of performance rarely seen outside Formula One, while remaining true to the original vision that inspired the project,\u201d said Gray.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe engineering challenge has been immense. We set out to deliver Formula One-inspired levels of performance in a customer track car, requiring us to solve countless challenges across design, engineering, validation, testing and manufacture.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the things I’m proudest of is how closely the finished car reflects the original vision,\u201d he added. Ear defenders at the ready.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Want the full lowdown on Newey\u2019s Earth-bound rocketship designed for wealthy mortals? Click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A group of very talented people will drive a very complicated and powerful car across someone\u2019s garden this weekend. To anyone heading to the Goodwood Festival of Speed, buckle up: the RB17 is entering the Earth\u2019s atmosphere. Having spent a while floating in the digital, concept, and design realms, Adrian Newey\u2019s spaceship will finally make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[226,237],"class_list":["post-2032499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-crawlmanager","tag-topgear-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032499","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2032499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2032499\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2032499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2032499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/analyse.optim.biz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2032499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}