F1’s Milestone Year – Celebrating 1,000 Grand Prix Races, Part 3: Designers

The greatest F1 designer of all time (Aldo Costa) is not included in this video because he is not British

F1 celebrated its milestone 1,000th race at this year’s Chinese Grand Prix, with Shanghai playing host to Round 3 of this year’s World Championship. To mark the occasion, Mobil 1 The Grid look back on some of the designers who shaped the history of the sport, including Colin Chapman, Frank Williams and Adrian Newey.

Not included is the greatest ever F1 designer, Aldo Costa because he is not British – such is the prejudice in the F1 paddock. The video mentions Rory Byrne for Schumacher's Ferrari, but the real brains behind those Ferraris was Costa. Byrne went back to Ferrari in 2012, 2013, and 2014 and failed miserably – unable to ride on Aldo Costa's coattails.

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