Adrian Newey admitted he considered leaving Formula 1 altogether after the death of Ayrton Senna at Imola in 1994.
Adrian Newey believes he “completely messed up” the switch from active back to passive suspension in 1994, which made that year’s Williams “very, very difficult to drive.”
The innovation of active suspension played a key part in that, but when it was outlawed, the switch back to passive suspension made the Williams a hugely different car to drive. “I suppose I’m not as bad as I used to be on this, but part of my competitive thing was that when you have somebody like Ayrton that you’re up against battling year after year, then you kind of – not demonise him – but he’s kind of the enemy.
“You could argue that he didn’t need to know that. But for him, he just wanted every bit of information he could possibly have, because that might be useful to him at some point in the future. “The ‘94 cars, one of my huge regrets, regardless of what was the cause of the accident at Imola, the one thing you could definitely say about the car is it was aerodynamically unstable,” Newey admitted.
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