A more `relaxed` environment
Adrian Newey says he left McLaren because Ron Dennis` Woking based team had become too big.
The highly lauded technical brain, who is set to soon begin work on Red Bull`s 2007-spec `RB3`, told Auto Motor Und Sport` that the `chemistry` at Mercedes-powered McLaren no longer suited him.
``McLaren is like a big, big company,`` the 47-year-old told the German motoring magazine.

Newey, in contrast, enthused about Milton Keynes based Red Bull, a more `relaxed` environment, even if the actual budgets of the two are not dissimilar.

``I am finding the people straightforward and open,`` he explained. The McLaren system, by contrast, had almost replaced the individual, with a `committee` making the decisions, rather than a person, according to Newey.

Perhaps a link between Newey`s departure and the so-far uncompetitive McLaren MP4-21 should not be made, but the Briton said he would keep an eye on his car`s progress throughout 2006.

He said : ``If the McLaren is successful, then I will be proud. But my future is Red Bull.``

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