Aston Martin's Miles Nurnberger vs. Red Bull Racing's Adrian Newey: The Results are Stunning!
Aston Martin Designer Miles Nurnberger has designed some of the most stunning modern Aston Martin's including the One-77 and the Valkyrie.
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The Aston Martin Valkyrie is the most technologically advanced car, well, ever. No, really. There's an entire book on the subject called, "A Wild Ride" that documents the hypercar's journey from the back of the napkin sketch after many sausages and beers to its eventual production. A central figure of the story is Adrian Newey, the most successful F1 designer of all time. Nearly as central to the tale of Valkyrie is the director of design at Aston Martin, Miles Nurnberger. Miles was given the awesome yet completely unenviable task of making sure the Valkyrie was up to Aston's renowned standard of beauty. Meaning he was forced to spar with Newey, a man who simply, literally doesn't care. To put it in RomCom terms, hijinks ensue!
Joining Aston Martin from Ford, Miles has had quite a career working under creative director Merak Reichman. These include the mighty One-77, the mightier Vulcan, the one-off Victor, as well as the stunning new DB12. Any one of these would be enough to cement one's name in the history books. But all of these, plus the new Valour and upcoming Valhalla? If the past is any indication, this Miles character sure has a bright future ahead of him! Sadly, we reached the two-hour mark and had to throw in the towel. But that just means that the door's open for Miles to come back for round two!
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