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BUSINESS RACE MOVES


David Malone is the new chief executive officer for V8 Supercars, Australia’s top motor racing category. Malone takes on the position vacated by Martin Whitaker, who took up the new role of international director in the autumn of last year. Malone was previously CEO at Australian sports broadcaster, Premier Media Group.


Steve Addington is the new crew chief for 2011 NASCAR Sprint Cup champion, Tony Stewart, replacing Darian Grubb in the position at Stewart Haas. Addington has previously worked at Penske and Joe Gibbs Racing.


Luca Furbatto, who has worked at McLaren for the past 10 years, has now joined Torro Rosso, where he will be a part of the design team at the F1 team’s Faenza base. Furbatto will take over from Ben Butler as chief designer in April, while Butler will return to Red Bull Technology in Milton Keynes.


Former Williams head of aerodynamics, Jon Tomlinson, has joined Scuderia Toro Rosso’s wind tunnel staff at Bicester, taking


all aerodynamics and CFD for the team, re-forming the successful partnership he previously enjoyed with Mike Gascoyne at Jordan and Renault F1. The aerodynamics wizard re-joined McLaren from Ferrari at the start of the 2010 season, and is currently on gardening leave.


It’s thought that Dave Ryan could return to Formula 1 with Renault – now known as Lotus. Ryan was formerly sporting director at McLaren, but left the team after


McLaren becomes first carbon neutral F1 team


Dave Ryan


the Lewis Hamilton row at the 2009 Australian Grand Prix. Ryan attended the Brazilian GP as a consultant to Genii Capital, the Renault team’s owner.


Jon Tomlinson


up the post of deputy head of aerodynamics and reporting to Nicolo Petrucci.


Drew Blickensderfer has joined Richard Childress Racing to work as crew chief for Jeff Burton in the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Blickensderfer has spent the past 10 years working for Roush Fenway Racing in NASCAR, and was crew chief for David Ragan in 2011.


Patrick Head will no longer travel to F1 races with Williams in an official capacity, having stepped down from his role as director of engineering to concentrate on the company’s burgeoning hybrid business. Head, who is 65, has been with the team since it was set up in 1977.


John Iley is to join the Caterham F1 team (formerly known as Lotus) as its performance director in June this year, where he will head up


Richard Childress Racing has made changes to its competition department as the NASCAR Sprint Cup outfit gears up for the 2012 season. Shane Wilson is now to be crew chief on the no 29 Chevrolet driven by Kevin Harvick, while Gil Martin – the no 29 crew chief since 2009 – has now been promoted to director of team operations, reporting to director of competitions, Kent Day.


Chris Heroy is now crew chief for Juan Montoya at the Earnhardt Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates NASCAR Sprint Cup outfit. Heroy joins EGR from Hendrick Motorsports, where he has worked since 2004, mostly as lead engineer on the no 5 car. Before starting his NASCAR career, Heroy was an engineer in Toyota Atlantic.


Brian Pattie is now crew chief for Clint Bowyer in the NASCAR Sprint Cup. Pattie comes to the Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota after a long career in the Nationwide Series, where he scored 18 wins, and two seasons tending the car of Juan Montoya in the Sprint Cup at Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.


Dave Mitchell, vice president at NASCAR Nationwide team, Rick Ware Racing, died unexpectedly at home in late November. Mitchell,


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The McLaren Mercedes F1 team has been certified by Carbon Neutral Investments (CNI) as 100% carbon neutral, becoming the world’s first carbon neutral Formula 1 team. The team has worked alongside CNI to select appropriate and relevant initiatives to offset the team’s carbon footprint. Team principal, Martin Whitmarsh, said: ‘This announcement is the strongest possible proof that we’ve gone farther than any other Formula 1 team in becoming more environmentally sympathetic and efficient – an achievement that’s of great importance not only to our organisation but to all our partners too.’ In addition to carbon


offsetting with CNI, McLaren has implemented a series of efficiency-driven measures to reduce CO2 emissions ‘at source’ within the McLaren Technology Centre – where annual savings


of more than 1500 tonnes of CO2 emissions have been achieved. CNI co-chairman, James Brown, said: ‘Vodafone McLaren Mercedes leads the way across Formula 1, and certainly does so in terms of environmental initiatives: the first F1 team to achieve the Carbon Trust Standard, recognition by the Government’s Carbon Reduction Commitment Energy Efficiency Scheme and a whole host of initiatives at the McLaren Technology Centre.’ The carbon offsetting


projects selected by Vodafone McLaren Mercedes with CNI provide a perfect fit with the team’s core business ideology and ethics. Two hydroelectric initiatives in India and Brazil have been selected, chosen for their prominence on the current Formula 1 landscape and also their employment of technical solutions that bring considerable value to local communities.


ATL supply BTCC


UK based fuel cell specialist ATL has been selected as the sole supplier to the DTM and BTCC championships in 2012. ATL has worked with the organisers of both championships to design a spec fuel cell for each series. The cell for the British


Touring Car Championship is composed of a Nylon-reinforced fabric with a hard-wearing synthetic elastomer coating. The bladder features a sump with integral collector for uninterrupted fuel pick-up, while the fuel pump, pressure regulator and filter are all mounted on the inside of the cell - all plumbed


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Tony Eury jr, the crew chief for the JR Motorsports no 7 Chevrolet that competes in the NASCAR Nationwide Series, has been fined and placed on probation until the end of March for running with an improperly attached weight at Phoenix International Raceway.


FINE: $10,000 (£64,500)


together with spanner-less, connections. The DTM cell uses Kevlar as its reinforcing fabric. For this application, the company has designed a sophisticated internal plumbing system, which uses four low-pressure pumps to feed an enclosed internal collector - ensuring that the main high- pressure pumps are never starved of fuel. Two high-pressure fuel pumps are plumbed in series and mounted inside the fuel cell, with the fuel filter mounted on the outside of the coverplate. Another innovation is the use of a ‘removal pull-tab’ securely fixed to the inside rear of the fuel cell.


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