F1 chassis were always usually made by a handful of companies who had autoclaves big enough for them. They did not design them, they just made them. It's just another part, just like any other. Some people may remember a saga when a respectable F1 team who was notorious for not paying bills, missed the pre-season testing because the company making the chassis withheld their new chassis due to unpaid bills.
With regards to future races. I for one welcome the Brobdingnag GP, with its rich motorsport heritage.
#13 Ben - the Thompson Ferrari chassis would have been a stranger to an autoclave . It was commissioned during one of the Scuderia's crisis years, 1973 , and was created by a bloke in a shed in Weedon , near Northampton before being driven to Italy , if memory serves, tied to the roof of a Ford Granada or similar . It was still a crap car that year .
John thompson composites ?
I'm not familiar with them. Do they still exist?
F1 chassis were always usually made by a handful of companies who had autoclaves big enough for them. They did not design them, they just made them. It's just another part, just like any other. Some people may remember a saga when a respectable F1 team who was notorious for not paying bills, missed the pre-season testing because the company making the chassis withheld their new chassis due to unpaid bills.
With regards to future races. I for one welcome the Brobdingnag GP, with its rich motorsport heritage.
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#13 Ben - the Thompson Ferrari chassis would have been a stranger to an autoclave . It was commissioned during one of the Scuderia's crisis years, 1973 , and was created by a bloke in a shed in Weedon , near Northampton before being driven to Italy , if memory serves, tied to the roof of a Ford Granada or similar . It was still a crap car that year .
JA spot on as ever!
Born out in this interesting Motorsport article, "Ferrari's English connections"
Did Arch Motors ever get involved with F1 in the past?
#14 £2.3K for the cheapest ticket still available, wow and I thought Silverstone was expensive.
Very good Motorsport article, thanks for the link Harry.
#18 Indeed! Absolutely bonkers!
I believe that the first monocoque f1 chassis Arch got involved with was MoNuns Ensign