Neil Oatley: designing World Championships with McLaren
F1 Beyond The Grid
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The Importance of the Team Championship
F1 legend Neil O'Brien has won nine driver's titles and seven constructors' titles. Patrick Head was your first technical boss at Williams, how influential was he? I couldn't have landed in a better place to develop myself as a person and engineer. How quickly did Patrick give you responsibility in the design office? It's fairly quickly because he had no other choice. And talking about the aerodynamics of the FWA07, how much time were you spending in the wind tunnel and how much of it was just on a drawing board? Very little wind tunnel time.
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