Absent Newey would miss Vettel’s title win in Japan

Adrian Newey will not be trackside on Sunday if Sebastian Vettel wraps up his fourth consecutive world championship at Suzuka.

Germany’s Bild newspaper reports that Red Bull’s famous car designer has decided to stay at the team’s Milton-Keynes factory rather than travel to Japan.

Briton Newey is usually a fixture on the pitwall, but Bild correspondent Nicola Pohl says he has decided focusing on the all-new 2014 car is a higher priority.

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