Despite his friendship and good past working relationship with Prost at McLaren, Barnard opted to leave the Maranello based team and join Benetton, seeking a new challenge, and relishing working again for a team based in England where he wouldn't be subject to the Italian press, where failures with his ideas (such as the numerous failures during testing of the semi-automatic gearbox throughout 1988), often made headlines despite being minor in nature.
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With Berger and Alesi removed, and reigning world champion Michael Schumacher installed as lead driver, team manager Jean Todt set about building a design office in Maranello.
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Despite being the teams Technical Director, he alienated himself from the team when he decided to set up his office in England and not at the factory in Maranello, reasoning that it would allow more work to be done on designing the 1989 car without the distractions of the factory (he also believed it would distance himself from the Italian press who had been known to be scathing on any Ferrari failures).
The Museum of Richmond has an engraving by John Barnard, architect of the design for the first Kew Bridge, dedicated to George, Prince of Wales and his mother Augusta and dated 1759.
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Sir Hedley John Barnard Atkins KBE (30 December 1905 – 26 November 1983) was the first professor of surgery at Guy's Hospital and President of the Royal College of Surgeons.