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“Penske Cars was setting build standards which few could approach”
Way back Motor Sport became renowned in the publishing world for reducing the type size of a story to squeeze it uncut into a page space. Today such a ploy is pretty much anathema to designers, and probably readers too. I was reminded of this last month when I tried to distil the Indianapolis Penske ‘Beast’ story down into the available space.
The perhaps too-often unsung Penske Cars outfit based in Poole, Dorset, was setting build standards then which precious few other constructors could approach. The outfit was run by former Brabham mechanicturned-manager Nick Goozée with its mid- ’90s designer being Nigel Bennett. One of the team engineers was Nigel Beresford, son of long-time McLaren staffer Don. This latter pair were known in Penske shorthand as ‘NB1’ and ‘NB2’.