Well, the end of an era, what a career, just amazing: https://www.speedcafe.com/2020/07/17/legendary-f1-designer-ron-tauranac-passes-away/
He was always a gentleman and very generous with his time & knowledge. I had the honour of presenting the Tauranac Trophy (for Formula Atlantics) at our SMSP meeting in Nov 2017. Ray Stubber from Perth was the recipient. Image Unavailable, Please Login
The engineers engineer, I saw a book about the F1 Mclaren the Ron was sent by by Gordon Murray that was lent to Bob Britton, that had the signed note along the lines of, To Ron, thank you you taught me everything I know, Gordon Murray. I regret not taking a picture.
That was a nice read, I have never heard of him before until now. He will definitely be missed by many, cheers CJ.
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Sadly, the speedcafe article has basic facts and chronology wrong. This is how journalism is in the modern age, nothing you read or hear is fact checked. Ron's brother was Louis. RALT stands for Ron And Louis Tauranac. The company was formed after he sold Brabham. Ron was the best racecar engineer in the world. The others in his time weren't even on the same page.
The RALT cars were the class of the field in the day, every time I went to Oran Park or Amaroo to watch the formula 2, 3 and Atlantic races the RALTs won unless they broke down. According to some info I have the RALT name was formulated as follows : Maybe this is wrong
Another great article on Ron : https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/july-1978/36/ron-tauranac-and-ralt-cars
Just a bit slow getting there that's all. Someone should tell them they are going to stop making P76's.
They’re going to be devastated when they hear Holden are closing.........in 7 or 8 years time. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Leave The Papster alone , he's too busy making money & baby Papsters & lifetime records for belts&tyres to be catching up on world news.:-