Formula One
He started in auto racing as a chief mechanic for the Brabham Formula One team from 1970 to 1975. It was quite an operation with F1 media czar Bernie Ecclestone the team owner, and drivers such as series champion Graham Hill and race winners Carlos Reutemann, Carlos Pace and John Watson. Both he and Watson moved to the ill-fated Penske team in 1976, a year after Mark Donohue was killed in the Austrian Grand Prix. Watson won the race that year and finished 7th in the World Championship.
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Famous quotes containing the word formula:
“Ideals possess the strange quality that if they were completely realized they would turn into nonsense. One could easily follow a commandment such as “Thou shalt not kill” to the point of dying of starvation; and I might establish the formula that for the proper functioning of the mesh of our ideals, as in the case of a strainer, the holes are just as important as the mesh.”
—Robert Musil (1880–1942)
“Given for one instant an intelligence which could comprehend all the forces by which nature is animated and the respective positions of the beings which compose it, if moreover this intelligence were vast enough to submit these data to analysis, it would embrace in the same formula both the movements of the largest bodies in the universe and those of the lightest atom; to it nothing would be uncertain, and the future as the past would be present to its eyes.”
—Pierre Simon De Laplace (1749–1827)