Robin Herd
Robin Herd, CBE ( born March 23, 1939) is an English engineer, designer of racing cars and co-founder of the racing team March Engineering.
Career
McLaren
Stove studied at St Peter 's College, Oxford and worked as an engineer for the Royal Aircraft Establishment in the development of Concorde. In 1965 he was recruited by McLaren and on behalf of Firestone with the development of the McLaren M2, a race car test vehicle from a composite of wood and aluminum, entrusted. The car was used in 1966 with little success in Formula 1. However hearth sports car for the CanAm series won in 1966, 1967 and 1968 titles for McLaren. Stove designed the McLaren M7A for the 1968 season and then switched to Cosworth, in order to develop a four-wheel drive Formula 1 cars.
March Engineering
When the Cosworth project was canceled, to stove in 1969 with Max Mosley, Alan Rees and Graham Coaker teamed up and founded March Engineering. The new company quickly evolved into a successful racing car manufacturer. The end of 1977 was the last remaining stove in the company charter member. He pulled back from the March Formula 1 and focused on the construction of vehicles for Formula 2 and Formula 3
After a brief, unsuccessful return to Formula 1 in the 1981 season stove shifted his field of activity in the United States. The March - Indy cars were the dominant cars of the 1980s. Following the success stove brought his company to the stock exchange in 1986. In the same year he was nominated for his services to the motorsport industry Commander of the British Empire.
1987 brought cooker March with the main sponsor Leyton House again back into Formula 1, 1989, he sold the team to the Japanese group and founded Robin Herd Ltd.. , A design office in Bicester. Here stove developed another Formula 1 car and got in 1991 under the company name Fomet 1 with the Fondmetal team again in the highest racing class. In 1992, he graduated with a Larrousse team a contract for the supply of racing cars. When this dissolved in 1995, named stove in his office at GenTech and worked for the CART team Forsythe Racing.
However, shortly afterwards, stove retired from racing and bought the English football club Oxford United with the aim to renew the stadium. He also founded a company for research on renewable energy. Both projects were very successful. After two and a half years, cooker withdrew from the football club.