Gavin Fisher
Gavin Fisher
Gavin Fisher (born August 30, 1964) was formerly Chief Designer of the Williams Formula One team. August 30 is the 242nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (243rd in leap years), with 123 days remaining. … For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). … Ralf Schumacher driving for the WilliamsF1 team at the 2003 United States Grand Prix WilliamsF1, formerly Williams Grand Prix Engineering, is a Formula One racing team formed and run by Sir Frank Williams and Patrick Head. … Formula One – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. …
Fisher was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident in late 2004 but returned to work in time for the start of the 2005 season. Imme R 100,Germany, 1948/1949 Contemporary racing motorcycle A 125 cc motorcycle, the Italian-manufactured Cagiva Planet. … It has been designated the: International Year of Rice (by the United Nations) International Year to Commemorate the Struggle against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO) 2004 World Health Day topic was Road Safety (by World Health Organization) Year of the Monkey (by the Chinese calendar) See the world in… 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. …
Fisher joined Williams in 1989 as an engineer and was promoted through the company becoming Chief Designer on the departure of Adrian Newey in 1997. Despite some good performances the team was unable to recapture the glory days of the Newey era, rarely challenging for more than a handful of wins each season. Repeated reorganisation and purges of the technical department followed, most notably with the sidelining of technical director and company founder Patrick Head. Many saw the team as in continued technical decline, and in August 2005 Fisher was sacked and replaced by former BAR engineer Jörg Zander. 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. … Adrian Newey (born December 26, 1958) is currently the chief technical officer of the Red Bull Racing Formula One team. … 1997 (MCMXCVII in Roman) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. … Patrick Head is co-founder of the Williams team. … 2005 (MMV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. … British American Racing is a Formula One constructor that competed in the sport from 1999 to 2005. …
Categories: Formula One people | 1964 births | Living people | Williams people
Veteran’s day at Spa-Francorchamps
Giancarlo Fisichella scored his 4th career pole position and the first ever for Force India during qualifying for tommorrow’s Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. As back at the Australian GP in 2005 it’s an all-Itallian front row with Jarno Trulli lining up alongside on the grid. Overall the qualifying result seemed to be result of experience of youth.
Frank Gardner 1930-2009
Frank Gardner has died after a long illness at the age of 78 in Australia.
Frank Gardner was one of the world’s toughest, most determined and professional racing drivers. From Australia, he was best known as a Touring car racing and Sports car racing driver.
Between 1964 and 1968 he took part in nine selected Formula 1 Grands Prix, scroring an 8th place as his best result in the 1965 British Grand Prix.
Frank made an impact in European racing winning the BTCC in 1967 in a Ford Falcon Sprint, in ’68 in an Escort, and in ’73 in a Chevrolet Camaro, becoming the only foreign driver to win the championship three times. He won the 1971 and 1972
Formula 5000 championships and 1976 and 1977 Australian Sports Sedan championships.
As a kid I saw Frank winning the F5000 race at Hockenheim in 1971 ahead of my hero Emerson Fittipaldi in the Lotus 56B AND driving a Chevy Camaro AS WELL as a sports car in the preliminary races to podium finishes as well. And, I was told many years later, driving the team’s truck back to its British base in the evening. Good old die hard racer. RIP, Frank.
My heart goes out to Frank’s family and friends.
McLaren eyeing third car as well
Mclaren is looking into entering three cars in 2010 FIA Formula 1 World Championship with Lewis Hamilton, Nico Rosberg and – should the ‘three cars per team’ sporting rules be approved in the FIA World Council meeting on the 26th of October – a third driver. Rumour has it Heikki Kovalainen will have to qualify for this position with outstanding performances in the remaining six races, with Adrian Sutil also being in the frame for the seat. Here’s what’s up in the major racing series around the World this Weekend:
Sam Tingle
24/8/1921, Samuel A.Tingle is born in Manchester, UK.
Sam Tingle was a British expatriate and one of only two drivers to enter a Formula 1 race from the former republic of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, the other being John Love. He participated in 5 grand prix’s, debuting on December 28, 1963 at the wheel of an LDS-Alfa Romeo in the 1963 South African Grands Prix. He’d line up on the grid again in the 65 and 67 edition before switching to a Repco-engined LDS for 1968 and a pukka Formula 1 Brabham-Repco BT24 for the 1969 race when he produced a career best 8th place finish.
Born: 24th of August 1921 in Manchester, UK;
Died: 19th of December 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa, aged 87.
Eric Broadley
Eric Broadley 22 Aug 1928
The first champion of 2009 is crowned
Laurens Vanthoor becomes the first champion of the 2009 season by winning the 1st race of the Nürburgring round and then securing a 12th place (!) after making a botch of his start in race 2. Nonetheless the Belgian driver secured the German Formula-3-Cup long before its final round. It’s also Volkswagens first f3 title since the brand’s comeback to the category.
Further Saturday notes:
Freddie Agabashian
Freddie Agabashian 21 Aug 1913
Modesto, California 13 Oct 1989
Alamo, California USA 8
(1950-1957) Son of a mathematics genius, his sisters also became professional singers. Freddie carried on the tradition of success in his family by being a hugely successful driver. He later became a radio and TV announcer for the Indy 500, as well as advising countless drivers. (Last updated 24 Jan 2003)
Weekend coming up and there’s already a winner
Kyle Busch won the Camping World Truck Series night race at Bristol, Tennessee, on Wednesday in front of 46.000 race visitors ! Not bad at all for a mid-week night race, huh? Anyway, it also meant the end of Ron Hornaday’s rekord breaking winning streak. Coming up this Weekend:
Nigel Bennett
Nigel Bennett 18 Aug 1940
Ashbourne, Derbyshire
GB Ensign, Theodore
(1980-1983) Moved to America after F1, where he has worked as a technical consultant to Penske and G-Force. Now back in the UK, as a consultant, living in Dorset.
Apologies
As we are currently adopting a different production procedure, edition 13 of P1 Mag will unfortunately be available slightly later than usual. However, we hope this will allow us to edit the following editions quicker than before. Thanks for your understanding.
Valentino Rossi close to 6th MotoGP World Title
Valentino Rossi secured his 5th win of the season in Brno today, moving a step closer to a 6th FIM MotoGP World Champion’s title. Starting from pole position ahead of team-mate and nearest challenger Jorge Lorenzo the duo fought a hard duel before the young Spaniard crashed out in the lead with five laps remaining, ending all of his title hopes. Check out some more of this Weekend’s race winners.
Coming racing atractions
For the fifth time in six years, Chevrolet WTCC driver Alain Menu will take part this weekend in the Buenos Aires 200 km, one of the few long distance events in the Argentine TC2000 series and the seventh round of the championship and the second round of the Endurance Series. Menu will share with local ace Guillermo Ortelli a Chevrolet Astra car run by the Chevrolet Elaion team. During his previous visits to Buenos Aires, Menu always managed to finish on the podium. Check out what else is on the agenda.
Beatrice Bossini 1991 – 2009
Motor sport is going through an unbelievable sombre streak of serious accidents. After the passing of Flavio Guglielmini in rallying, Henry Surtees in Formula 2 and – last Sunday – Thomas Knopper in karting, we now mourn over young motorbike racer Beatrice Bossini from Montevarchi in Italy, who suffered a fatal accident while testing her Kawasaki Ninja 600 Supersports bike.
James Allison
James Ashbury Allison (11 August 1872-1928), born in Marcellus, Michigan, was an American entrepreneur and businessman. He was the inventor of the Allison Perfection Fountain Pen and with Carl G. Fisher a founder of Prest-O-Lite, a manufacturer of automobile headlights. It hit the market with perfect timing as the automobile industry was growing rapidly and the ability to see at night was naturally a great benefit. Prest-O-Lite brought the already successful Allison and Fisher wealth well beyond what they had enjoyed earlier. With Carl G. Fisher, Frank H. Wheeler, and Arthur C. Newby he was a founder of the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race. The Indianapolis Motor Speedway continues to evolve and expand as it approaches its centennial year in 2009. Allison died of pneumonia in 1928 at the age of 56 and was buried in Crown Hill Cemetery in Indianapolis, Indiana. His Indianapolis home, Riverdale, is now part of Marian College.
Schumacher comeback called off
As P1Mag reports in its latest weekly edition, Michael Schumacher has called off his plans to replace Felipe Massa at Ferrari. Coincidence or not, at the same time stories emerge there might be negotiations going on between FIA and FOTA to relax the one-race-ban for Renault.
Thomas Knopper 1990 – 2009
The motor sport scene is in shock yet again as young Dutchman Thomas Knopper is declared dead at the scene after an accident right after the start of a KZ2 race for the German Karting Championship DKM at Liedolsheim in the Southwest of Germany earlier today. The German police has not released full details of the incident that left other drivers involved with injuries.
Zonta and Jönsson win Grand-Am race at Watkins Glen
Competing in the bill with NASCAR’s two premier StockCar series Sprint Cup and Nationwide Series at Watkins Glen, the Grand-Am Rolex Series had to settle for a sprint race on Friday. Ricardo Zonta and team-partner Nic Jönsson took the Krohn Racing Ford-Lola to their second win of the 2009 season ahead of championship leaders Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas.
2/8
2nd of August – 50 years ago: I recall vividly how impressed I was when I first saw the snapshot of Hans Herrmann looking on as his BRM cartwheels away. It all happened at Berlin’s high speed Avus circuit during the 1959 German Grand Prix, roughly a year before I was even born. When I spotted the picture as a young boy in a German magazine, there wasn’t any text explaining that the brakes of Herrmann’s BRM failed causing him to crash in such a spectacular way. And honestly, it still is kind of hard to figure out how he’d been thrown out of the car, slid along the track with the car somersaulting in the air, without even suffering any serious injury. However, when I went racing myself on the long Avus straight with a Bert Ray built Formula Ford 2000 in 1985 I didn’t have any time to think about brake failures. And thankfully I was strapped into the cockpit with the noweadays common six-point-harness…
Saturday Winners and another Alguersuari landmark
Jaime Alguersuari, the youngest ever driver to take part in the Formula 1 World Championship, continues to write history by winning the second of two races of the World Series by Renault’s visit to the Portuguese track of Portimao. It’s the first time a Formula 1 driver takes part in a further championship in paralell since – if I’m not mistaken – since the mid-eighties, when F1 drivers Stefan Bellof, Riccardo Patrese, Michele Alboreto, Manfred Winkelhock and Marc Surer took part in the World Sportscar Championship, too.
Reader's Comments