Gustav Brunner | |
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| Born | (1950-09-12)12 September 1950 (age 75) Graz, Austria |
| Occupation(s) | Formula One designer and engineer. |
Gustav Brunner (born 12 September 1950) is an AustrianFormula One designer and engineer.
Born inGraz, he started his career in racing car design at the German-based constructorMcNamara. He first entered F1 in a brief spell working for theATS team in 1978, before designing cars forFormula Two andsportscar racing. He came to prominence in Formula One in 1983, by returning to ATS. He designed two chassis for the team, the 1983D6 and the 1984D7, before quitting after a number of arguments with team principalGünter Schmid. In 1985 he joinedRAM Racing, designing the RAM 03 car. By this time he was gaining a reputation within the sport for designing good chassis on a limited budget, even if the teams he had worked for had a conspicuous lack of results.
He then worked forArrows[1] andFerrari, working for the latter on theirF1/87 car, before reuniting with ATS boss Schmid as designer for his newRial F1 outfit in 1988. He fell out with Schmid again and became Technical Director of theZakspeed team. When the team folded at the end of the 1989 season, he moved on toLeyton House, where he worked on theMarch CG891 and stayed on as they reverted toMarch Engineering.
When March Engineering folded, he moved toMinardi for 1993, designing their successfulM193 chassis, before another switch, to Ferrari's Research & Development department, eventually returning to Minardi as chief designer in 1997 to help new technical director,Gabriele Tredozi, and became the technical director in 1999.
Following three successive seasons where his Minardi designs had been praised for their innovative design considering such small resources, he was head-hunted byToyota to become their Technical Director for their new Formula One team in 2001. He left Toyota at the end of 2005.
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