Mo Nunn
Morris "Mo" Nunn ( born September 27, 1938 in Walsall, England ) is an English engineer. He was owner of the team Ensign in Formula 1 and is considered one of the most recognized team owners in the U.S. Champ Car series.
Life
Beginnings in motorsport
Nunn came with the racing in contact when he saw a Cooper - Climax in a showroom of a car dealership and bought these. In the years 1963 and 1964 he collected with his Cooper and a Lotus sports car first experience in motorsport. In 1965 he founded with partner Bernard Lewis own team, Lewis Nunn Racing, and got on a lotus in the British Formula 3. Nunn won his first Formula 3 race at Mallory Park. After further success, he joined in the same year at the European level and could occupy a fourth. 1967 Nunn drove in a private Lotus 41, won several races and was able to secure sponsorship funds with which he could deny the 1968 season. 1969 Team Lotus for Formula 3 and occasional use in the formula signed him 2 the end of the year, Nunn tried in Formula 5000, but failed and opted for a career as a vehicle developer.
His first Formula 3 race car, the slat tracking 1, Nunn built in 1970 in the garage behind his home in Walsall. The car took on his debut in March 1971 at Brands Hatch for the first round of the British Formula 3 Championship with Bev Bond at the wheel of the second place. The next two races were won and Nunn began selling its cars to other teams. Due to the success in the first year, many prospective found for the 1972 season. The LNF3 used by Nunn's Ensign team in Formula 3 could win races that remained LNF2 in Formula 2 but without success.
Formula 1
The end of 1972 mandated Rikky von Opel, a descendant of Adam Opel and Formula 3 driver in the Ensign team, Mo Nunn to build a car for the Formula 1 Dave Baldwin joined Nunn's team to the Formula 3 cars to care, and Nunn himself developed the N173 for the top motor sport. The car debuted at the Grand Prix of France in 1973 and was inducted into this season with six other races, but could retract any appreciable success. For 1974 Nunn continued to develop the car, but of Opel Ensign turned his back and moved to Brabham.
Nunn was present with his Ensign team in Formula 1 until 1983. In 1980, Clay Regazzoni at the U.S. Grand Prix with Nunn's car accident, in which he drew upon so serious spine injury that he had been paralyzed ever since. The best result for Ensign could enter with a fourth place finish at the Brazilian Grand Prix Marc Surer in the 1981 season.
Champ Car and Indy Racing League
Nunn sold his Formula 1 team eventually to Teddy Yip and went to the United States to compete with Roberto Guerrero in Bignotti - Cotter team in the Champ Car series. After several years with Newman / Haas Racing in 1989 moved to Patrick Nunn Racing and supervised Emerson Fittipaldi in his victory in the 500 miles of Indianapolis and profits of the Champ Car championship. 1992 Nunn went to Ganassi Racing, where he was chief engineer four consecutive titles with drivers Jimmy Vasser (1996 ), Alex Zanardi (1997 and 1998) and Juan Pablo Montoya (1999) win.
End of 1999, Nunn started his own team in the Champ Car series, Mo Nunn Racing, Tony Kanaan and sat in a Reynard -Mercedes one. The team was, like Ensign in Formula 1, underfunded and was unsuccessful. In 2001, Alex Zanardi as the second driver in the team. However, he had a serious accident in which he lost both legs in the race at the Euro Speedway Lausitz. 2002 Nunn sat each a cart in the Champ Car series with Canaan and in the Indy Racing League with Felipe Giaffone one. The season in the IRL was promising and in the following year, Nunn focused on this series. 2003 occupied the former Formula 1 driver Tora Takagi ranked tenth in the championship. The following season was less successful, and was overshadowed by an accident Takagi at Motegi. At the Indy 500 in 2005, Nunn sat for the last time a one own car. Today, he works as a technical consultant at Ganassi Racing.