Len Terry

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Len Terry (born February 11, 1924 in Hackney , † August 25, 2014 ) was a British motorsport engineer.

Life

Len Terry came to motorsport in the 1950s after completing his studies and began successfully building formula junior racing cars. In 1960 he came to Gilby and constructed next to a sports car and his first Formula 1 - seater , which however did not succeed. His breakthrough as a designer came at Lotus , where he developed Jim Clark's world champion car from 1965 with the Lotus 33 . The Lotus 38 was also a design by Terry.

After a few years with Dan Gurney's Eagle team, he was responsible for a wide variety of projects until the mid-1970s. For BRM he built the P126 and for Lola the Formula 2 - BMW T102 . It was followed by the very successful Formula 5000 - Surtees TS5 . The BRM P207 was Terry's last major work in motorsport; but the car was a bad design.

After leaving motorsport, he was a passionate cyclist.

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SURNAME Terry, Len
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British designer
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Hackney
DATE OF DEATH August 25, 2014