Enrique Scalabroni

Hector Enrique Scalabroni (* October 1949 in Córdoba) is an Argentine vehicle designers. In 2003 he founded the Formula 3000 and GP2 Series team BCN Competición.

Scalabroni studied in the 1960s, mechanical engineering at the Technical University of Buenos Aires. In the 1970s he began working as a technician for several Argentine racing teams to work who were engaged in various domestic single-seater series. For the Argentine Formula 2 championship, he built his first race car.

In 1982, Scalabroni to Europe and was engaged by Dallara. He not only designed the first wind tunnel of the team, but was also responsible for the Formula 3 cars. In 1985 he moved to Williams in Formula 1, he had great influence on the development of racing cars. Designed Together with Patrick Head and he designed the Williams FW11, the team won the Formula 1 World Championship.

In 1989, he came as aerodynamicist and chief designer at Ferrari. The resulting in close collaboration with Steve Nichols Ferrari 641 was in 1990, the emergency vehicle the Scuderia. Alain Prost and Nigel Mansell won the 641 1990 six Grand Prix races.

After only two years Scalabroni again left the Italian racing team and built at the Lotus 102B. The 1990s were characterized by different projects in which he participated. He worked at Peugeot 905 and was also involved in the development of the Peugeot as the ultimately discontinued Formula 1 project of the French brand.

The early 2000s he came to AsiaTech, prepared the Peugeot Formula 1 engines for the Minardi team and Arrows. In 2003, he finally formed his own racing team, the BCN Competición. With Enrico Toccacelo as a driver the team secured in the first year to second place overall in the Formula 3000 Championship, the best result for the team, which had to be sold in 2008 after financial difficulties.

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