Mercedes have by and by been the prevailing group this season as Lewis Hamilton secured a fourth world title in Mexico a month ago.
Ferrari undermined to provoke them with some aggressive shows in the main portion of the year however fell away after the mid year break, while Red Bull have been playing get up to speed after a beset begin to the season.
Nonetheless, Newey – talking after the dispatch of another book – fears it will dependably be troublesome for more groups to battle for the title until there is equality between the three driving motors – Mercedes, Ferrari and Renault.
Formula 1 has lost its gladiatorial edge with cars having turned out to be too simple to drive, says Adrian Newey.
Cars are more extensive and speedier this year, however that has made surpassing more troublesome as drivers battle to complete each different corners.
“You don’t have that gladiatorial feeling that you used to have,” Red Bull’s chief technical officer said.
“If you go back to, for instance Ayrton Senna, on board footage of him at Monaco in 1990, you think ‘how on earth can he drive a car like that?’ You think you could never do that in a million years.
“Now if you watch on board footage you kind of feel – and you’d be wrong of course – that you would be able to do it yourself.”
Newey trusts the game has been heading the wrong route as far back as the V6 turbo cross breed motor time started in 2014.
He added: “For independent teams such as ourselves who can’t necessarily get hold of the best power unit then it is a struggle. That is in contrast with the V8 era, when the engines were much more similar to each other.
“If, for instance, the power unit difference was much less. then I think this year we would have had a proper four-way championship battle between ourselves, Mercedes, Ferrari and McLaren, which is what we want really.”
