Born on this day in 1950, Frank Dernie is one of F1's pioneering engineers, introducing data loggers, active suspension and extensive wind tunnel testing to the development process. In today's Great Read, from 2004, he speaks about one of his greatest designs: the Williams FW11.
If you were drawing up a list of the best-looking Formula One cars, Williams' FW11B would be passed over in an instant. Williams cars, despite their huge success over the last quarter-century, have always looked workmanlike, with colour schemes shorn of flair. But that doesn't make them any less memorable.
On the contrary, their shape and colours are always evocative of certain eras, races, drivers. Take FW11B: its white Canon sidepods, hump-backed yellow engine cover, angular front end-plates, deep blue Mobil 1/Honda stripe, little brown Barclay logo just behind the front wheels.., close your eyes and it's 1987.
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