“It was a crumbling stately pile, possibly one of the most inappropriate places to locate a Formula 1 team ever, but still an astonishing place to work in,” he says of the “extraordinary” Ketteringham Hall HQ. Working under late Ralt boss Ron Tauranac – his company bought out by March in 1988 – and Lotus 72 designer Maurice Philippe while at March shaped Cammaerts greatly.
He firmly recalls having an “epiphany” that his calling was in motorsport upon seeing a Jaguar XJR8 blow past him on the pitwall at Brands Hatch, and duly set about making it happen.įollowing graduation, his first proper job came at Ralt, where Cammaerts served as the design engineer on the Ralt RT33 Formula 3 car and Alfa 89C Ind圜ar, also overseeing the windtunnel programme for its successor, the 90C. As Cammaerts puts it, “if you wanted to simulate something, you pretty much had to write the code yourself.” So that’s exactly what he did.Ĭammaerts’ love affair with engineering began in the late 80s, working at sportscar constructor Tiga alongside his studies for a postgraduate diploma in industrial design engineering at Imperial College London. But in his early days of working in Formula 1 with Lotus, data acquisition and analysis was “relatively primitive” and commercial codes weren’t available.
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