Everyone here sees Newey as a magic bullet but seems to forget that other people can indeed build great cars.

If there’s too much politics going on then that’ll make it difficult to work as a good team. Newey doesn’t limit himself to just designing. He also wants to be involved with drivers and how the team is setup.

His book is pretty telling on this. At various times it wasn’t his design work that made a change, it was things like how the team is setup.