![]() That’s the way I grew up and I’m afraid I’m getting a bit too much of a creature of habit to change. ![]() Now, of course, as everything has to go onto the CAD system, I’m lucky enough to have a team of two or three people who take my drawings and convert them into electronic images.īut whether you use a drawing board or go straight to the CAD I think it’s really a personal preference. ![]() It’s the way of taking an idea in the head – typically I’ll take an idea, sketch it on a bit of paper and then develop it on the drawing board. I guess I’m the last dinosaur in the industry. In terms of communicating my ideas and developing my ideas, I work on a drawing board – as opposed to all my colleagues now, who are obviously on computer-aided design (CAD) systems. You are well known for your low-tech approach to what is ultimately a very high-tech product – you draw a lot of your designs. I think the danger there is that if the regulations become excessively restrictive, then all the cars will be the same and it will effectively be a runway chassis format. What I don’t enjoy so much is when the regulations simply become more restrictive, when things that we’re doing become banned. The big changes we had at the start of 2009 gave all sorts of new opportunities different ways to approach things, don’t simply do things the way we’ve always done and really try to think what are we trying to achieve here, what is the best solution or set of solutions to suit new regulations. I enjoy regulation changes if they give new opportunities. Do you relish it as a challenge or is it a headache? I’m sure we all have different ways of working and I’m obviously not the only person coming up with ideas. Sometimes the solution will pop up in the shower the next day, the next week. I quite often find that if I think about a problem for a while, store it, walk away and do something else … the brain is an amazing thing. Where do you get your “light bulb” moments? So it’s really about trying to get that blend of evolution and revolution. So if regulations are stable, quite often it’s evolution in the Darwinian sense of the word, but occasionally we’ll come up with a new idea which is not a derivation of what we’ve been doing, it’s coming from left field. The design job is part iteration and part blue sky/light bulb-type thing.
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