Tony Southgate
Tony Southgate ( born May 25, 1940 in Coventry, Warwickshire ) is a British engineer, former designer of racing cars in Formula 1 and a founding member of the Arrows team.
Career
First experiences in racing gathered Southgate 1962 at Lola, where he worked as a designer of cars for Formula 1, Sports Car racing and the Indycar series. He moved for a year to Brabham, but returned to Lola back to work with Eric Broadley of the sports car, which won the CanAm title with John Surtees driving in his debut season.
This success made Dan Gurney at Southgate attentive and hired him for his Eagle project. Southgate developed a car for the Formula 5000 and the Eagle 68 Drake / Offenhauser, with Bobby Unser in 1968 took victory in the 500 miles of Indianapolis, came from him.
B.R.M.
1970 took over Southgate the post of chief designer of the Formula 1 team of BRM. During the first season Pedro Rodríguez was able to get the P153 's first win in four years for the team. 1971 Jo Siffert and Peter Gethin decided in P160 one race apiece for himself and the team finished the constructors' championship in second place behind Tyrrell. 1972 brought Jean -Pierre Beltoise victory in Monaco.
Shadow
The end of 1972 the team moved Southgate Shadow, the planned entry into Formula 1 for the 1973 season. Southgate designed the Shadow DN1, which at first was competitive with the drivers George Follmer and Jackie Oliver. The Shadow DN2 for CanAm series was up a double success in the championship this year. 1974 Peter Revson died at the wheel of a Shadow DN3 testing at Kyalami.
The end of 1975, when it became evident that the main sponsor would not renew the contract with Shadow, Southgate moved to Lotus, where he was involved on the side of Peter Wright in the development of the Lotus 77 and Lotus 78.
Arrows
Mid-1977 Southgate returned to Shadow, but left the team at the end of the year again to start with Franco Ambrosio, Alan Rees, Jackie Oliver and Dave Wass the Arrows team based in Milton Keynes. The name of the team was composed of the initial letters of the surnames of the founding members, the "S" stands for South Gate.
The first Formula 1 car of the new team was so similar that he was told by an action for copyright infringement by the FIA for illegal the Shadow DN9. Southgate developed for the Arrows A2 and A3 car before he left the team and until 1980 worked freelance.
Theodore Racing
The end of 1980 Southgate returned to the Formula 1 and designed for Theodore Racing the TY01 for the 1981 season.
Osella Squadra Corse
1983 Southgate designed with the Osella FA1E his last Formula 1 race cars. Southgate had to make many compromises here. A complete redesign would not let Osellas budget; Southgate therefore had to confine itself to revise the existing, going back to their roots to the year 1980 Osella car and adapt to the now used engine from Alfa Romeo. The Osella FA1E reached the goal only three times. Southgate Austrian colleague Gustav Brunner held the FA1E for the worst car of the grid by 1983.
Sport car
After the merger of Theodore teams with Ensign end of 1982 Southgate founded along with John Thompson Auto Racing Technology. This new company was involved in two major projects by Ford, including the development of the Ford RS200, but both projects were completed before success could adjust.
1984 Southgate went to Tom Walkinshaw Racing, where he was responsible for the design of the Jaguar XJR -9 and -12, which were three times winning the World Sportscar Championship twice and the 24 - hour race at Le Mans. He remained until 1991 at TWR and was then continued as a developer of sports cars for Toyota (Toyota TS010 ), Ferrari (Ferrari 333SP ), Lister, Nissan (Nissan R390 GT1) and Audi ( Audi R8R and R8C ) operates.