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Harvey Ernest Postlethwaite (4 March 1944 – 15 April 1999) was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams during the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. He died of a heart attack in Spain while supervising the testing of the aborted Honda F1 project.
Harvey ‘Doc’ Postlethwaite was one of Formula 1’s top motorsport engineers for nearly 3 decades. He first made his name working with Hesketh, designing the car which led to James Hunt’s first F1 victory, then moving on to Wolf, Ferrari, Tyrell and finally ending his career at HONDA.
Jul 7, 2014 · To rectify this situation, Ferrari recruited former Hesketh and Wolf designer Harvey Postlethwaite mid-way through 1981, the Englishman at this time finding his design ambitions thwarted by a chronic lack of finance within the Fittipaldi team to which he’d transferred after its takeover of the Wolf team’s assets.
Postlethwaite's first Ferrari design, the 126C2, was the dominant car in 1982 winning for Ferrari the constructors' title, a feat they repeated in '83. Postlethwaite brought to Ferrari the then...
Feb 27, 2024 · Harvey Postlethwaite (1944-1999) was a British engineer and Technical Director of several Formula One teams in the 1970’s, 1980’s and even 1990’s. Indeed during these three decades, Postlethwaite was a leading engineer for the Hesketh, Tyrrell, Ferrari and Honda F1 teams.
Postlethwaite was amongst the first to properly realise the potential of sliding skirts/ground effect with the 1978 Wolf. His next car, the WR7, featured a sleek monocoque construction that eliminated the weak joints of previous fabricated designs, which proved very timely, bringing him to the attention of Enzo Ferrari.
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His next car, the WR7, featured a sleek monocoque construction that eliminated the weak joints of previous fabricated designs, which proved very timely, bringing him as it did to the attention of Ferrari.
