Well spotted ;)Originally posted by petefenelon
Well you could argue that the MP4 was a Project Four design
that just happened to be built by McLaren - after
all, people stopped calling "McLaren Elva Oldsmobiles"
anything other than McLarens, and the Trojan-built cars
were McLarens..... so it cuts both ways ;)
About MP4: that car was definitely a long way coming even before the "merger" with BMMR, but Trundle had nothing to do with it. That was "Project 1" - from the top of my head, here's Ronzo's projects:
P1 Rondel Racing (with Neil Trundle), 1971/2 Brabham F2 works team, 1973 own F2 car called Motul (hey, isn't that a sponsor's name? Hush, hush... ), 1974 own F1 car, but Motul switched to BRM so project was sold off to Token.
P2 Marlboro team Ecuador, 1974 Surtees F2 works team, an excersice best forgotten
P3 Project Three Racing Team, 1975 F2 team, why did that go under?
P4 Project Four Racing, Ron saw "wonderboy" Eddie Cheever race in F3 in late '75 and immediately snapped him up, ran Ralt and March F2 cars for him and then for others such Ingo Hoffmann, Andrea de Cesaris, Chico Serra, Hans-Joachim Stuck. Also started F3 team (in '78?), very successful (see British F3 thread) with Serra (78/79) and Stefan Johansson (1980), sold to Dick Bennetts in late 1980 complete with new car (4 races, 4 wins), and Dick made a career of it.