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Will to win beats money, hopes Newey

Adrian Newey is keen to believe that a combination of Red Bull's determination and technical prowess will be enough to overhaul its richer competitors as the 2009 season moves on. The team, now in its fifth season, is lying second in the constructors' championship with one race win already to its name.

"I think, from a resource side, we are clearly smaller than some of our rivals, but from a hunger and drive side of it then we are going to keep pushing, so what can I say?" asked design guru Newey, one of few remaining in Formula One who still prefers the use of a blackboard rather than a computer at times.

Having designed championship-winning cars for both Williams and McLaren, Newey moved to Red Bull at the end of 2005 although the Renault-powered RB5 of this year is his most competitive car for the outfit to date. "I suppose one of the things about getting a bit of success is it gives the team confidence," he continued. "It is a funny thing about winning races; when you are not winning it looks an impossible task and you can feel sometimes a bit deflated that you can't seem to win a race. If you do win a race, you don't feel you are doing anything differently.

"You have suddenly won a race and it is the old saying - 'it gets the monkey off your back'. From the people at Milton Keynes, who were at Jaguar and are now at Red Bull, we shed that monkey in a way that perhaps they feel it more than when we won the race at Monza last year (as Red Bull Technology company is responsible for both the Red Bull Racing and Toro Rosso teams)."

"My attitude in this position is always: let's just keep our head down and not worry about what everyone else is doing," Newey summed up. "We will concentrate on doing the best job we can and see where it takes us."

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