Mike Gascoyne
Mike Gascoyne ( born April 2, 1963 in Norwich, England ) is a British Formula 1 designer and long-time Technical Director at various Formula 1 teams. Gascoyne is currently part of the management team of the [ www.caterham.com Caterham Group ] and CEO of Caterham Composites material specialists.
Gascoyne was born in Norfolk, England. He studied fluid mechanics at Cambridge University (Churchill schoolboy) of 1982 until 1988.
Mike Gascoyne now lives in Oxfordshire and Norfolk, England with his partner Silvi and his three children, Joel, Connie and Freddie.
- 2.1 Caterham Challenge
- 2.2 Caterham Le Mans
Formula 1 career
After a brief stint at Westland System Assessment Limited, part of Westland Helicopters Gascoyne 1989 launched at McLaren as a wind tunnel engineer.
In the past 24 years Gascoyne has worked subsequently for various Formula 1 teams ( McLaren, Sauber, Tyrrell, Jordan ), before joining Renault to Toyota team in December 2003.
There he was responsible for the successful Toyota TF105, the first time allowed the team to connect to the top teams. On 4 April 2006 Gascoyne was dismissed for several reasons. Especially the poor start to the season with him constructed toyota TF106 should be the decisive reason. As his salary at the Japanese team about 8 million dollars a year were adopted, which made him the highest paid technicians probably the Formula 1, even in contrast to successful technical directors like Adrian Newey and Ross Brawn. In the seasons 2007 and 2008 Gascoyne worked as chief engineer (formerly Spyker F1) and was replaced by James Key in 2009 with the team Force India.
In September 2009 Gascoyne was commissioned by Tony Fernandes with the construction of the new F1 Team Lotus F1 Racing 's which starts today under the name of Caterham F1 Team. The team played its first race appearance after only 5 months of development and construction work successfully in Bahrain.
Stations
Gascoyne 's direct management style has proven F1 Team and the restructuring of existing motor sports teams like Renault and Toyota as a very successful throughout his career, especially in setting up new projects such as the new Caterham.
Gascoyne 's nickname " the Rottweiler " comes from his time at the British Formula 1 Team Tyrell, during which he worked under his mentor, Harvey Postlethwaite. Originally, " Harvey 's Pit Bull" was the name "Rottweiler " to this day cling to Him.
MGI Consultancy
Gascoyne in 2001 founded his own company in Oxford. He is the owner of [ www.mgiconsultancy.com MGI Consultancy ], a consultancy that specializes in engineering and project management in the car, motor sports, aviation and water sports.
Caterham Challenge
MGI Consultancy currently heads the Project Caterham Challenge, a campaign, the project strives used in Formula 1 apply management and technology developments in the organization and ocean-going technical support from professional offshore sailing teams. The campaign will run in cooperation with the Caterham Group, especially here Caterham Technology and Caterham Composites.
Caterham Challenge, a Class 40 racing yacht is currently taking in the ocean race Transat Jacques Vabres 2013 from Le Havre, France, to Itajai, Brazil partially with Mike Gascoyne as skipper and Brian Thompson as co -skipper.
Caterham Le Mans
MGI Consultancy has technically supported the first Le Mans appearance of the Caterham Group in June 2013.
Personal
During his time at Cambridge University and Gascoyne directs two expeditions to the Himalayas ( 1986-1987) during which he climbed among other Bandarpunch and Sudarshan Parbat.
This expedition was followed by a newfound interest in the then fledgling sport of paragliding (1989-1992). Gascoyne took part in 1999 for four races in the British BOSS GP series in the Tyrrell 022 Tyrrell 025 and the controlled. Both were developed by Himself during his time at Tyrrell.
His passion for competitive extreme sports following a lifelong dream fulfilled gascoyne. In November 2013 Gascoyne sailed alone without stopover on a Class 40 racing yacht of Cascais ( Portugal) to Grenada ( Caribbean) in the Caribbean where he arrived after 16 days on December 14, 2012.
Gascoyne is also an ardent cricket fan.