RIP Robin Herd
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Robin Herd, co-founder of March, has died aged 80
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/robin-herd-marc...
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/robin-herd-marc...
sgtBerbatov said:
Eric Mc said:
It's amazing how many people who became big hitters in the UK motorsport scene started off their careers in aviation. Farnborough had quite an influence.
Surely that just coincides with motorsports discovery of aerodynamics at a time of the jet age coming to life?He was a hugely important figure , and by all accounts a very likable man. His name will mean nothing to most F1 watchers ,of course , and if you told them a new team came along out of nowhere , set up by brash young duckers and divers like Max Mosley and boasted it would field cars in F1 , F2 and F3 - oh , and Can Am too - next season and then do just that ...And with five cars in the first GP , one driven by reigning WDC ...
Different times ...
Different times ...
sgtBerbatov said:
Surely that just coincides with motorsports discovery of aerodynamics at a time of the jet age coming to life?
In a way. It's to do with a young British engineers in the post World War 2 world finding motor sport exciting and something that they were interested in. As a result, may people working in the aeronautical world found themselves attracted to motor sport in the 1950s. Britain had an aviation industry in the 1920s and 30s - and Farnborough existed then too - but in that earlier period motor sport did not seem to be that attractive to those designing aircraft or aircraft engines - in the UK. That changed in the UK after World War 2.I suspect I am not alone in mourning the fact that the death of a hugely important figure in motor sport goes virtually unremarked - 8 posts- whilst Haas's sponsorship deal with Rich Energy is a topic of such fascination that it is 26 pages and counting , and there's more in the context of Williams .
Partly an age thing but it's more than that , as , like many , I am fascinated to read about racing events decades before I became addicted (in the late 60s in my case ) but for some ,the triviality of a quirky sponsor in 2019 is apparently more important .
Different strokes I guess ....
Partly an age thing but it's more than that , as , like many , I am fascinated to read about racing events decades before I became addicted (in the late 60s in my case ) but for some ,the triviality of a quirky sponsor in 2019 is apparently more important .
Different strokes I guess ....
coppice said:
I suspect I am not alone in mourning the fact that the death of a hugely important figure in motor sport goes virtually unremarked - 8 posts- whilst Haas's sponsorship deal with Rich Energy is a topic of such fascination that it is 26 pages and counting , and there's more in the context of Williams .
Partly an age thing but it's more than that , as , like many , I am fascinated to read about racing events decades before I became addicted (in the late 60s in my case ) but for some ,the triviality of a quirky sponsor in 2019 is apparently more important .
Different strokes I guess ....
He worked in a fascinating era in race car aero when streamlining turned to combating lift and creating downforce. Perhaps he wasn't enough of a character.Partly an age thing but it's more than that , as , like many , I am fascinated to read about racing events decades before I became addicted (in the late 60s in my case ) but for some ,the triviality of a quirky sponsor in 2019 is apparently more important .
Different strokes I guess ....
Perception of an unassuming race car constructor churning out customer cars in an era when customer cars thrived which is now sorely missed.
Nor does it help that March's biggest success came with Indycars. Who knows much about 80s Indycars on this side of the Atlantic?
Pinched from another thread. I had to check whether he designed that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNFdblILFQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNFdblILFQ
enginebuilder said:
He had a very quick MK2 Escort in Leyton House livery he drove on quite a few rallies, beat me on quite a few occasions, very nice chap to chat with, RIP.
Also a sweet looking 6R4 and Darrian in the same colours , nice chap and I was staggered that he was 80 , where does the time go . RIP Robin coppice said:
March - unassuming ???? God no- they were a bunch of bulls
tting , self promoting masters of hype - and delivered . Read Mike Lawrence's book about their japes and spin .
I did read Simon Taylor's Lunch With.../Porridge With... interview immediately after reading various brief obituraries. Well worth readingtting , self promoting masters of hype - and delivered . Read Mike Lawrence's book about their japes and spin .https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article...
For some March doesn't seem to be a fondly loved organisation compared to say Lola otherwise there would've been a flood of fond memories and favourite cars. Not even a mention for Hesketh/James Hunt and hence perceived as an unassuming organisation.
My Dad has a letter at home from Robin Herd thanking him for a road rally he organised back in the early 80’s.
If I remember correctly he turned up at the start in a works spec HSR Chevette, the very same car that Jimmy McRae had used only a few weeks earlier on the Manx international. To do a road rally on public roads in Devon.
If I remember correctly he turned up at the start in a works spec HSR Chevette, the very same car that Jimmy McRae had used only a few weeks earlier on the Manx international. To do a road rally on public roads in Devon.
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