Swift Engineering

Swift Engineering is an American chassis manufacturer in single-seater racing car, and producer of mini jets.

The Company

Swift Engineering was founded in 1983 by the four Americans David Bruns, Alex Cross, R. Smith and Paul White in St. Clemente California with the goal of developing unit chassis for a variety of single-seater racing series. The company started with the production of Formula Ford chassis, which were used in the U.S. Formula Ford 1600 Championship. This was followed by vehicles for the Formula Ford 2000 Championship, the Formula Atlantic and the CART series. He most recently produced Swift - the company has already produced more than 500 race cars - the unit chassis for the Atlantic series and currently for Formula Nippon.

Achievements

Due to the unit chassis success of Swift in the various race series are of course numerous. Anders was the. In the CART series, where Swift 1991 with a lot of sponsor money from Panasonic built a first chassis for the Japanese Hiro Matsushita From 1997 until the end of the 2000 season was supplying Swift Newman / Haas Racing exclusively with vehicles. Hazards were the cars of Michael Andretti and Christian Fittipaldi. Overall, Swift -CART race car race contested 182, of which five were won. The last driver with a Swift car in this racing series was the Brazilian Tarso Marques.

Aircraft

In 2007, Swift engaged in aircraft. The company built as a commission of the Eclipse Aviation Eclipse 400 Minijet Following the bankruptcy of Eclipse Aviation 2008, but was not pursued the project.