Tim Densham was born on 31 March 1955 and is a former British Formula One engineer.
12 Facts About Tim Densham
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Tim Densham was most recently the chief designer at the Renault Formula One team.
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Tim Densham went on to work with Satoru Nakajima when the team landed Honda engines in 1986.
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Team Lotus was plagued with financial issues, so in 1990 Tim Densham decided to move on and found a job with Brabham.
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Tim Densham worked as a designer and was the race engineer for Stefano Modena in 1990 and Mark Blundell in 1991.
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When Sergio Rinland left the team at the end of 1991 Tim Densham was named chief designer for the BT61 project but the team went bankrupt so it closed down in the middle of the season with the new car never having been built.
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In late 1992 Tim Densham joined Tyrrell as a design engineer.
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Tim Densham was back on the racing team as race engineer to Andrea de Cesaris, Mark Blundell and Ukyo Katayama, who he engineered in 1995 and 1996.
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At the start of 1998 Tim Densham decided that he no longer wanted to attend races as he had in the past and moved to the test team.
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The death of Harvey Postlethwaite in 1999 resulted in Honda canceling the program and Tim Densham was recruited to be chief designer at Benetton.
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Tim Densham led the engineering department which designed the Benetton-Playlife B200 and remained with the team after it was taken over by Renault Sport.
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In 2011 Tim Densham left Renault and retired from Formula One.