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Richard Parry-Jones CBE 1951-2021

4/19/2021

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The automotive industry has lost one of its leading figures of the last 30 years in Richard Parry-Jones, following his death from a heart attack on 16 April, aged 69.

Winner of the Tom Pryce Memorial Trophy in 1998 – the prestigious honour awarded by Welsh Motoring Writers – as well as numerous other awards and accolades, it is still possible to underestimate the impact Richard had on the automotive industry in Europe and beyond.

His philosophy in developing automotive dynamics was to achieve a sense of a vehicle’s behaviour during the first 50m of a drive rather than driving flat out on a test track. It would be these subtleties and nuances that would matter more to the majority of car owners than any behaviour at the limit.



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