‘A PU R E RACI NG ENGINE GUY’

“He’s a pure racing engine guy, no question. He works in a methodical way and organises his whole department the same, so we never had to wait for engines. No matter how late everything was when the latest R18 or R15 was about to be finished, the engine was always ready. “He was very talented in convincing the board members who have to give the money that he needed so much time and so many engines, so we could make sure that once his engines were put into the race cars they were already running properly. “We used to joke with him saying that the engines are not powerful enough or must be overly safe because we never have engine failures. He always went mad and would tell you, ‘Of course we have engine failures, but we have them on the dyno where it should happen and not on the race track’. He was never afraid to try something new, but it was always proven before he put it on the track.”