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Ron Tauranac

1925 - 2020

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Ronald Sidney Tauranac (13 January 1925 – 17 July 2020) was a British-Australian engineer and racing car designer, who with Formula One driver Jack Brabham founded the Brabham constructor and racing team in 1962. Following Brabham's retirement as a driver at the end of the 1970 season, Tauranac owned and managed the Brabham team until 1972, when he sold it to Bernie Ecclestone. He remained in England to assist with a redesign of a Politoys Formula One chassis for Frank Williams in 1973 and helped Trojan develop a Formula One version of their Formula 5000 car. After a brief retirement in Australia, Tauranac returned to England to establish the Ralt marque (a name he and his brother Austin had used for some 'specials' in Australia in the 1950s, winning the NSW Hillclimb Championship in 1954 with the Ralt 500). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ron Tauranac is the 296th most popular engineer (up from 308th in 2019), the 4,046th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,980th in 2019) and the 29th most popular British Engineer.

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Among ENGINEERS

Among engineers, Ron Tauranac ranks 296 out of 389. Before him are Marc René, marquis de Montalembert, William Froude, Hideo Itokawa, Burt Rutan, Viktor Kozin, and Joseph Bazalgette. After him are Markus Reiner, Frederick Terman, Alan Shugart, Georgy Langemak, Percy Hobart, and Boris Lisunov.

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Among people born in 1925, Ron Tauranac ranks 383. Before him are Sándor Gellér, Tony Benn, Toma Caragiu, Alain Peyrefitte, Mal Waldron, and John Baptist Wu. After him are Ruth First, Olga Aroseva, Bert Bolin, Károly Makk, Jean Cau, and Rosemary Murphy. Among people deceased in 2020, Ron Tauranac ranks 490. Before him are Rafael Leonardo Callejas Romero, Claude Barthélemy, Efraín Sánchez, Kiki Dimoula, Ben Bova, and Hartwig Gauder. After him are György Kárpáti, Flavio Bucci, Jean Brankart, Eduardo Lourenço, Índio, and Gérard Mulumba Kalemba.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ron Tauranac ranks 4,047 out of 8,785. Before him are Bert Jansch (1943), Charles Blagden (1748), John Wilkinson (1728), John Byng (1704), Edgar Syers (1863), and Arthur Smith Woodward (1864). After him are Chris Blackwell (1937), Brian Murphy (1932), Ben Nicholson (1894), Patrick Malahide (1945), William Henry Smyth (1788), and Claire Williams (1976).

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Among ENGINEERS In United Kingdom

Among engineers born in United Kingdom, Ron Tauranac ranks 29. Before him are André Waterkeyn (1917), Harvey Postlethwaite (1944), James B. Francis (1815), Frederick W. Lanchester (1868), William Froude (1810), and Joseph Bazalgette (1819). After him are Robert W. Paul (1869), Mal Evans (1935), Ralph Bagnold (1896), Geoffrey de Havilland (1882), Ove Arup (1895), and Jesse Ramsden (1735).

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