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Gemma Mole is the new championship co-ordinator for the Volkswagen Racing Cup, one of the UK’s top one-marque saloon car championships. Mole started working in motorsport at Brands Hatch in 1999, becoming Motor Sport Vision Racing’s competition secretary and administrator in 2007, and later joint co-ordinator of the successful Club MSV Trackday Trophy race series.
Alain Prost
Four-time F1 world champion, Alain Prost, has become a ‘brand ambassador’ for Renault. It is said he will provide technical input to the company, as well as representing the French motor manufacturer at events. Prost recently won the Trophée Andros ice racing championship at the wheel of a Dacia Lodgy Glace.
Ken Wolfe, a crew member in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, has been indefinitely suspended from all the US Stock Car governing body’s events after violating NASCAR’s substance abuse policy.
Josh Williams won an Australian talent search to find an apprentice mechanic to finish their apprenticeship with the Tradingpost Racing V8 Supercars squad.
John Dunlop has filled the newly created role of director, commercial and marketing, at V8 Supercars Australia. He will lead the organisation’s sales, sponsorship and marketing teams and will report to V8 Supercars chief executive officer, David Malone. He was previously head of his own sports management agency and has also worked for PGA of Australia.
David Hewitt, the operations director at Group Lotus, has joined the Make It In Britain campaign, which has been launched to promote UK manufacturing. The idea of the campaign is to challenge the misconception that ‘Britain doesn’t build anything anymore’, which it says is an outdated view that restricts investment, finance and recruitment into the manufacturing sector.
Alex Wurz has returned to the Williams Formula 1 team to become a driver mentor. Wurz will travel to grands prix this year, and will give the relatively inexperienced Williams’ drivers, Pastor Maldonado and Bruno Senna, the benefit of his long Formula 1 experience.
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Whatever Mann touched turned to gold, and red
The man behind those iconic red and gold Ford Touring, Sports and GT cars of the 1960s, Alan Mann, has died at the age of 75 after a long illness.
Alan Mann Racing was
one of the top teams of the 1960s, winning world Sportscar manufacturers’ titles and European and British Saloon Car titles for the Blue Oval, and running the likes of Jackie Stewart, Graham Hill and Jacky Ickx in its cars. A quick driver himself, Mann
OBITUARY – SELWYN HAYWARD
The founder of Colchester Racing Developments, Selwyn Hayward, has died aged 78. Famous for its Merlyn racecars, the company was a stalwart of the UK motor racing scene
throughout the ’60s and ’70s. While Hayward initially
built front-engined Formula Juniors, the Merlyn name really came to the fore with the arrival of Formula Ford in 1967, and its FF1600 was the chassis of choice for future Formula 1 world champions such as Emerson Fittipaldi and Jody Scheckter.
The Mk11 and 11a
Formula Ford, and its Mk20 successor, continue to race to this day, and are competitive propositions in the Historic FF1600 arena.
Tim Schenken at the wheel of a Merlyn FF1600 in 1968
Selwyn Hayward 1933-2012 90
www.racecar-engineering.com • May 2012
found himself in the role of team manager after starting a racing programme for the Ford dealership he was working at, Andrews of Southwick. Success soon followed and Alan Mann Racing was set up as a Ford team in 1964, the outfit almost winning the Monte Carlo Rally at the very first attempt the same year.
But it was on the circuits where the team really made its BRIEFLY
Formula Renault axed for 2012 The first casualty of the crisis hitting the professional single- seater championships in Europe (see V22N4) has been British Formula Renault, which has announced that it will not be running in 2012 after an extremely disappointing entry of just six drivers, and is now diverting all its efforts into returning the championship to full strength in 2013. The championship has been in slow decline since the introduction of the Barazi-Epsilon chassis in 2010, with an average of just 13 cars on the grid last year. On a brighter note, the Formula Renault BARC Championship – which makes use of the older Tatuus chassis – has reported it is expecting a bumper grid of close to 20 cars in 2012.
name, with Sir John Whitmore and Frank Gardner driving Mann’s Escorts and Falcons to victory after victory, while Sportscars were also a happy hunting ground with wins for GT40s and Shelby Cobra Daytona Coupés. One project for which Mann
will always be remembered was the Ford F3L of 1968. This radical machine was powered by the then new Ford-Cosworth DFL Formula 1 engine and, while it proved fast enough to take pole positions, set fastest laps and lead major races, poor reliability prevented it from finishing a single race. Mann retired from racing when the Ford contract ended in 1969, going on to work in the specialised aviation industry and buying Fairoaks aerodrome in Surrey. He went on to develop the airfield and also create a number of profitable businesses there. Alan Mann 1936-2012
OBITUARY – ALAN MANN
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