Red Bull is coming to the fore

From the top of the podium where he received the winning manufacturer's cup, Adrian Newey suppressed a tear. A double for his machines, his public, on the circuit where, at least on paper at least, the last British GP had just been contested, the very place where he had seen his very first Grand Prix. ?Yes, it?s here that I experienced my first childhood thrills watching a car race. It was 1973. My parents brought me with tickets for the Woodcote stand. My father had just bought us each a hamburger and I dropped mine between the boards and the tubes of the stand. I went down to get it, covered in sand? Even before the end of the first lap, Stewart was far ahead? For me it was a revelation.”

On Sunday, it was his RB5 that was revealed to everyone. To the public, but also to the competition. She had just made a new addition to the one everyone was waiting for, the Brawn GP. One flew away, the other floundered. Too bad for the spectacle, totally absent as the domination was so frank, so much the better for everything else! For the freshness of this victory, of this double, for the Manufacturers? World Championship, which we will perhaps not bury as soon as the Brawns let us believe? For the Pilots, the illusion will most likely last less long but hey, it's still a catch!

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