John Barnard's all-carbon fibre chassis McLaren MP4/1 changed F1 for good. On the anniversary of its first victory, today's Great Read has Barnard recalling the design journey to James Elson.
Colin Chapman had his Archimedes moment whilst scrubbing up in the bath and thinking of F1 driver seat positions. Jim Hall took inspiration for the revolutionary Chaparral 2J fan car from a drawing sent to him by a young fan. The moment John Barnard's ground-breaking F1 idea took flight was during a visit to British Aerospace.
"I went into this little room, where there was one guy working in there," Barnard told Motor Sport. "They just had the usual tools you'd find in any workshop, which he was using to cut pieces of carbon fibre.
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