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Robin Herd, former McLaren and March designer, has passed away
McLaren's very first car designer and one of March Engineering's founders, Robin Herd, has died at the age of 80. Herd entered the world of Formula 1 in the mid 60s with McLaren, having been signed by the fledgling team from the Concorde project. Herd had worked as a design engineer on the supersonic aircraft but had his head turned by motorsport when a position as a designer with McLaren became available. Herd was part of the ragtag group that McLaren were in those days, designing the initial cars Bruce McLaren raced in the mid 60's, including the Ford powered car raced by McLaren at the 1966 Monaco Grand Prix. Herd remained with McLaren until 1968 before leaving to set up March...
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