Nick Wirth
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Nick Wirth was an Aerodynamicist for the March Formula One racing team, responsible for all aerodynamic concepts and scheming and design of windtunnel model components for the 1988 and 1989 Leyton House March F1 cars. In addition, he conceived and designed all components of the March Active suspension system, which ran successfully in February 1989.
From October 1993 to June 1995, Wirth was Founder / Owner / Technical Director of the Simtek Formula One team, which started in the 1994 F1 championship. Simtek Research provided the team with all of the engineering and design of the cars. Uniquely for the team principal of a Formula One team, Nick was a regular contributor to the Usenet newsgroup rec.autos.sport, describing the team's progress [1].
From 1996 until 1999 Nick was Chief Designer and later Board Member for the Benetton Formula One team.
In 1999 Wirth founded RoboScience, creators of the RS-01 RoboDog.
In 2006 Wirth has been working for the FIA in the Casumaro windtunnel in Italy on the split rear wing design that the FIA has proposed for the 2008 F1 season. In 2007 he will be involved with the Acura programme in the American Le Mans Series.
Wirth has B.Sc.(Hons) in Mechanical Engineering (First Class) from University College London and is the youngest-ever Fellow of the Royal Institute of Mechanical Engineers.
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