Rodney Quaife

July 7, 2014

This leading transmission designer died recently. In the 1960s, his company enjoyed great success with motorbikes, ridden by stars such as Mike Hailwood and Barry Sheene.

During the 1980s, he patented the torque-biasing differential used in Gerhard Berger’s 1986 Mexican GP-winning Benetton. Quaife transmission products continue to be widely used in motorsport. PL

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Paul Lawrence

Here is a man who goes racing every weekend from March to October. Paul’s passion for the sport goes back to when he was a child of the 1960s. He has organised, competed in and marshalled on scores of events, and has written about the subject for 20 years. He is as at home in the paddock at Brands Hatch as in a Welsh forest or at Shelsley Walsh.

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