engineering

One of the secrets to China's engineering success is its young people.

Mr Wilson was a 20-year-old college band member and mechanical engineering student at Southern University and A&M, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.

“Not only do I have 20 years plus serving this country, I also have a mechanical engineering degree that I graduated with honors. I have two graduate degrees,” she said.

But they unsettled Newey, and added to the disquiet Red Bull's design chief was already feeling about internal politics within the engineering team.

Criticism has flooded in, including that engineering mammoth-like creatures is a big stretch from making mice hairier, as well as being unethical, and that the whole project is a publicity stunt.