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Old 17 Jul 2020, 06:49 (Ref:3988871)   #1
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RIP Ron Tauranac

A sad in Aust. The passing of a legend from the helicon days of F1 in the 60's - 70's

RIP Ron, thanks for the cars

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Old 17 Jul 2020, 09:33 (Ref:3988908)   #2
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A great engineer and a great man. RIP Ron
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Old 17 Jul 2020, 11:26 (Ref:3988961)   #3
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He formed a formidable partnership with Jack Brabham and showed a friendship and close working relationship that created one of the best engineer-driver partnerships ever. His work indeed stretched beyond the confines of Formula 1, with the Ralt chassis.
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Old 17 Jul 2020, 11:36 (Ref:3988969)   #4
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Old 17 Jul 2020, 13:19 (Ref:3989011)   #5
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Very sad, not many people have had more impact on motorsport
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Old 17 Jul 2020, 14:03 (Ref:3989018)   #6
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Very sad, but good to see he kept himself busy and active right to the end. He was Patron at the Phillip Island Historic meet when he was 90.
RIP Ron.
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Old 19 Jul 2020, 01:43 (Ref:3989360)   #7
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Sad loss of a great man. RIP Ron and condolences to his family and friends.
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Old 19 Jul 2020, 19:35 (Ref:3989578)   #8
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R.I.P. 95, what a great innings. When I first started following F1, I had no idea about who it was that actually designed F1 cars, until I saw a picture of the iconic Lobster Claw Brabham BT 34.

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Old 20 Jul 2020, 13:16 (Ref:3989738)   #9
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R.I.P. 95, what a great innings. When I first started following F1, I had no idea about who it was that actually designed F1 cars, until I saw a picture of the iconic Lobster Claw Brabham BT 34.

I may be wrong here, but I don't think that Ron can be blamed for that particular shambles, I think he had left Brabham by then!
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Old 20 Jul 2020, 13:36 (Ref:3989746)   #10
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I may be wrong here, but I don't think that Ron can be blamed for that particular shambles, I think he had left Brabham by then!
He designed the BT 34 in 1971 and left Brabham in 1972. I always liked it because it looked different, particularly in this photo from the 1971 Italian GP. It's best results were 5th in the 1971 Austrian GP and 1st in the BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone on April 23, 1972.

This is quite an interesting article on the car.

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Old 20 Jul 2020, 16:10 (Ref:3989791)   #11
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Beat me to it. RT designed the 1971 BT34... as he had done with every prior Brabham F1 car from the first in 1963, the BT3.
Ralph Bellamy designed the 1972 BT37 car.
The next F1 car was the 1973 BT42 of Gordon Murray.
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Old 20 Jul 2020, 16:56 (Ref:3989810)   #12
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Beat me to it. RT designed the 1971 BT34... as he had done with every prior Brabham F1 car from the first in 1963, the BT3.
Ralph Bellamy designed the 1972 BT37 car.
The next F1 car was the 1973 BT42 of Gordon Murray.
I thought it was interesting how Gordon Murray went back to Ron Tauronac's idea of two radiators in front of the left and right wheels and a wing positioned between them. He continued with the twin radiator concept with the BT 44 and 45.

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Old 21 Jul 2020, 08:00 (Ref:3989889)   #13
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I sstand corrected then, I thought Ron had moved on before the uncompetitive BT34 was penned.
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Old 21 Jul 2020, 16:35 (Ref:3990014)   #14
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I have one of his superb cars an RT34 nearly the last but not quite. The attention to detail is unbelievable. The panels are interchangable from car to car including all of the rivet holes.



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The amount of Ralts he produced was superb, he did a lot for the lower formulae. Left no stone unturned

Keep that prized RT34 possession
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The amount of Ralts he produced was superb, he did a lot for the lower formulae. Left no stone unturned

Keep that prized RT34 possession
He was RALT, with assistance from his younger brother Austin.
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I have one of his superb cars an RT34 nearly the last but not quite. The attention to detail is unbelievable. The panels are interchangable from car to car including all of the rivet holes.



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And here we are, took a while to find a couple of photos with me driving. Hope fully something attached. There is a photo of me in the Ralt, it is an RT34 with 33 front suspension, it shortens the wheelbase for Hill Climbing. The other photo is my other toy, a silhouette Singer Chamois Coupe.
The Ralt runs Formula 3000 wheels a normally aspirated 2 litre Duratec putting out close to 300bhp and a six speed sequential Hewland.
The Chamois has a supercharged Honda Blackbird engine 1137cc putting out 200bhp. Both cars were built from boxes of bit by me and my son.
Both cars are used in Sprints and Hill Climbs, The Ralt won the 2019 Southwest Sprint Championship with my son driving and guess who came 2nd.


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And here we are, took a while to find a couple of photos with me driving. Hope fully something attached. There is a photo of me in the Ralt, it is an RT34 with 33 front suspension, it shortens the wheelbase for Hill Climbing. The other photo is my other toy, a silhouette Singer Chamois Coupe.
The Ralt runs Formula 3000 wheels a normally aspirated 2 litre Duratec putting out close to 300bhp and a six speed sequential Hewland.
The Chamois has a supercharged Honda Blackbird engine 1137cc putting out 200bhp. Both cars were built from boxes of bit by me and my son.
Both cars are used in Sprints and Hill Climbs, The Ralt won the 2019 Southwest Sprint Championship with my son driving and guess who came 2nd.


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You've got a great little machine there Roy, as someone else said, it's a keeper!

We lost an absolute giant of the sport with Ron's passing - RIP!
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We built it from a box of bits including a brand new tub for the 2004 season, it is sooo nice to drive. It doesn't doanything silly. It has also had a new paint job over the winter, to match the Chamois metallic blue.


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...it is sooo nice to drive. It doesn't do anything silly.
The hallmark of a Ron Tauranac design.

That and the fact that they were safe, easy to set up, well priced and most importantly, fast.

The racing world, the engineering world has lost a giant.
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Sounds brilliant, really nice feeling of accomplishment when you transform something from bits to a car and then it is good on top of it!
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Not to bad for a hobbyist. I do a bit on an RT3 1984 that is pretty good to work on as well.
I have a roll bar certificate for my car, it was lodged with the MSA to show compliance. It is signed by Ron where it says calculations he put designed to my calculations. The MSA seemed to think that that was ok.

I bellieve the RT35 was the last of Ron's Ralt designs. The RT36 and RT37 were all carbon and didn't seem to work well. Most of the 37's ended up as Gould GR37's and went Hill Climbing.


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