My rv8`s history
kenton - 11/3/09 at 07:09 PM
Just had an interesting bit of info on my engine, its a twr (tom walkinshaw racing) twin plenum. Engraved into the ally is TWR no 3 4litre.
I was at a college reunion a couple of weeks ago and by chance one of the girls partners is tom walkinshaws gardner!!What are the odds of that?
Any way it turns out that my engine was fitted into a range rover for the Paris Dakar rally.
They are going to find out more details.
kenton
speedyxjs - 11/3/09 at 07:27 PM
Cool!
Dont hear much of Tom Wilkinshaw after arrows F1
mangogrooveworkshop - 11/3/09 at 08:57 PM
quote:
Originally posted by speedyxjs
Cool!
Dont hear much of Tom Wilkinshaw after arrows F1
^ typo
Tom Walkinshaw
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Tom Walkinshaw (born 17 November 1950 Mauldslie Farm, near Penicuik, Midlothian, Scotland) is a Scottish racing car driver and the founder of the
racing team Tom Walkinshaw Racing. He is also involved in professional rugby union as a club owner and administrator.
Contents
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* 1 Racing career
* 2 Team Management
* 3 Notes
* 4 References
* 5 External links
[edit] Racing career
The Rover SD1 of Tom Walkinshaw and Win Percy at the Nürburgring in 1985.
Walkinshaw began racing in 1968, starting in an MG Midget, before moving on to a Lotus Formula Ford car. The following year he won the Scottish FF1600
title at the wheel of a Hawke. In 1970 he entered the British Formula Three championship with Lotus. He later moved to the March 'works'
team, where he broke his ankle in a racing accident.[1] Continuing his career despite this setback, he drove in many classes, including Formula 5000
and Formula Two.[2]
Ford hired Walkinshaw to drive a Capri on the British Touring Car Championship circuit in 1974. This resulted in him winning his class that year. In
1976 Walkinshaw established Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), continuing to drive for his own team. In 1984 he won the European Touring Car Championship in
a Jaguar XJS.[3]
In 1985, Walkinshaw teamed up with Jaguar and entered a three-car team in the Bathurst 1000 touring car endurance race in Australia. The pairing of
John Goss and Armin Hahne won the race, while Walkinshaw himself placed third, driving alongside Win Percy.
Walkinshaw retired from driving after 1988 to concentrate on the management of TWR's increasing motorsports portfolio.
[edit] Team Management
In 1975 Walkinshaw established Tom Walkinshaw Racing (TWR), a group whose business was the manufacture and design of racing and road cars. TWR ran
touring car programmes in the mid 1970s and early 1980s. In 1983 the TWR team took an amazing eleven wins in eleven races in the British Saloon Car
Championship running Rover Vitesses, before being stripped of the title for a technical infringement. TWR also ran a Jaguar touring car programme
before taking on their World Sportscar Championship programme. In six years the programme won Le Mans twice and the World Championships three
times.
In 1991 Walkinshaw was recruited as Engineering Director of the Benetton F1 team which subsequently won the 1994 Formula 1 World Championship. He was
involved in the recruitment of Michael Schumacher by Benetton after the German's Formula One debut with the Jordan team. As Engineering Director,
his role also came under scrutiny when the team was investigated for suspected technical infringements during the 1994 season, including the potential
use of banned electronic aids and unauthorised modifications to the refuelling apparatus used on the cars. Although illegal software was found in the
Benettons, the FIA had no evidence that it had ever been used in a race and no action was taken against the team.
For 1995 Walkinshaw bought 50% of the Ligier team from Benetton team principal Flavio Briatore. His intention was to take over the team completely,
but he was unable to purchase 100% of the team and therefore pulled out of the deal. Instead he bought the Arrows team, achieving a coup for the 1997
Formula One season by recruiting reigning world champion Damon Hill to his squad.
1997 saw Walkinshaw voted Autocar Man of the Year. By this stage the TWR Group employed 1500 employees in the UK, Sweden, Australia and the United
States. At the time, Tom was also Managing Director of Arrows Grand Prix International.
His TWR racing group went into liquidation in 2002 after the Arrows team ran out of money. This led to the Australian arm of the operation being
bought by Holden Australia. However, since the V8 Supercar Championship forbids a manufacturer owning a race team, Holden had to divide the teams
assets and sell the Holden Racing Team (HRT) to lead driver Mark Skaife, and K-Mart Racing (now the Toll HSV Dealer Team) to John and Margaret Kelly
(the parents of V8 Supercar drivers Todd and Rick).
In 2006 Walkinshaw returned to HSV/HRT and helped lead Holden to its first series win since 2002 through driver Rick Kelly - HSV Dealer Team. In late
2006 Walkinshaw bought the small Australian sports car manufacturer Elfin Cars. In 2007 Walkinshaw acquired a 50% stake in the Holden Racing Team, and
in 2008 fully re-acquired HRT from Skaife Sports, in both instances ownership stakes were traded for debt mitigation from Skaife Sports.
mangogrooveworkshop - 11/3/09 at 09:02 PM
Seems he builds aus lotus seven knock offs
http://www.elfin.com.au/elfin/2008/
