John Barnard

John Barnard ( born May 4, 1946 in Wembley, England) is an English engineer and developer of racing cars and motorcycles.

Life

Beginnings in motorsport

Barnard did his engineering diploma at Watford College of Technology in Watford (England) and worked first in the industry as a developer of machines for the manufacture of light bulbs. In 1968 he competed at Lola, was engaged and participated in the sequence in the development of racing cars for the formulas Vee and SuperVee, the Lola sports car for the American Can-Am series and various other projects. When Lola he met the later chief engineer of Williams Grand Prix Engineering, Patrick Head, know. The two became friends and Head was a witness at Barnard's wedding.

Formula 1

1972 Barnard moved to McLaren, where he developed with Gordon Coppuck the car for the IndyCar Championship, Formula 5000 and Formula 1. With the McLaren M23 Emerson Fittipaldi won the Formula 1 World Championship in 1974.

1975 Barnard was recruited by Parnelli Jones to construct on the side of Maurice Philippe a car for the Formula 1, which was used from 1974 to 1976. After Parnellis withdrawal from Formula 1 Barnard built for him a car for the IndyCar championship. This became aware of Jim Hall at Barnard. For Barnard whose team designed the Chaparral 2K, with Johnny Rutherford 1980 Indianapolis 500 won and won the IndyCar title.

Ron Dennis Barnard took the early 1980s to his Project 4 team, for which he developed a revolutionary racing car made ​​of composite materials, which is manufactured by Hercules Aerospace. When Dennis McLaren bought up, was out of this car in the McLaren MP4 / 1, the technical basis for a series of successful McLaren race car. In 1983, Barnard called "bottle necking " one, in which the side boxes between the rear wheels narrow converge, a design that is still visible today in Formula 1. Barnard McLaren won in 1984, 1985 and 1986 drivers' world championship and could enter 31 race wins

1987 Ferrari recruited from the force at the time as best Formula 1 engineer Barnard and built him to the conditions in England a development center in which to work Guildford Technical Office (GTO ), because Barnard refused in Italy. In the GTO, the revolutionary semi-automatic transmission, won its first race Nigel Mansell in Brazil in 1989 and shortly thereafter and until now standard in all Formula 1 racing car was developed.

The end of 1990, after a season with five race wins with Ferrari, but again without a title, Barnard moved to Benetton and built the Benetton Group on Advanced Research in Godalming. He developed the Benetton B191 there, with Nelson Piquet could win a race in 1991 and was the basis of the B194, which took the 1994 world title.

After Barnard fallen out with the management of Benetton and had worked briefly at a Formula 1 project for Toyota, again offered him Ferrari, which had won in the three years since Barnard's departure not a race mid-1993, the post of Head of Development at. The result was the Ferrari Design and Development Development Centre in Shalford, Surrey, and Gerhard Berger took in 1994 with the 412T1B a victory at the Grand Prix of Germany.

1996 found at Ferrari with the departure of Berger and Alesi Jean Todt and the by -initiated relocation of development activities to Maranello major restructuring instead. Barnard refused to move to Italy and was replaced by Rory Byrne and Ross Brawn. Barnard 's development center in Shalford bought in 1997, renamed it in B3 Technologies and worked for Arrows. After an argument with Tom Walkinshaw, the former Arrows boss, Barnard joined the Prost team and after its bankruptcy in 2002 to Kenny Roberts sr. KR team in the MotoGP World Championship, where he developed as a senior engineer of racing motorcycles.

In March 2008, Barnard sold his shares in B3 Technologies to a consortium led by former business director John Minett.

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