Adrian Reynard
Adrian Reynard ( born March 23, 1951 in Welwyn, England) is a British engineer and founder of Reynard Racing Cars Ltd ..
Life
Reynard studied mechanical engineering at Oxford Brookes University. There he founded the Oxford Polytechnic Automobile Club, which he chaired until no academic degree, he finished the study in 1972. Already during his studies he broke with self-built motorcycles national and international speed records.
His first race car developed Reynard in 1973 as part of a student project while working as an engineer at British Leyland. In the same year he founded the previous March - president of production Bill Stone, the company Sabre Automotive. The company started off slow and Reynard went to other development contracts after. So he built for David Lazenby a Formula 3 car and a Formula 1 car for Mike Keegan, the head of British Air Ferries, was talking, but was never realized. In 1977, Stone Sabre Automotive, Reynard took over the company and renamed it in Reynard Motorsport.
1979 Reynard celebrated cars in the British and European Formula Ford first successes. He himself was in this class active as a driver and won the European title. In 1980, he worked for RAM Racing on a used Formula 1 Williams, the following year he was but with a March - car and Derek Daly as drivers chief engineer of the team, it left in September 1981 again. Reynard Formula Ford car, which Reynard 82ff, debuted in the same year at the Formula Ford Festival and was a great success. He could during the next seven years enter many titles and has sold up to Reynard withdrawal from Formula Ford 1989 a total of 661 times.
1983 Reynard began with the formula 3 to employ. It was the Reynard 853, the first car of this class with carbon fiber chassis. 1985 won Reynard Formula 3 car with Andy Wallace at the wheel of his first race, in 1988 the first car for the Formula 3000 with Johnny Herbert and just the debut in the Champ Car series ended in 1994 with victory by Michael Andretti team Ganassi Racing. An own Formula 1 project failed, but Reynard was as an engineer in the development of the first Formula 1 car of BAR involved.
1997 Reynard was appointed at Cranfield University Professor of Engineering and Applied Science. Followed in 2000 as a visiting professor for motorsports design at Oxford Brookes University.