Antony Dodworth, Principal Research Manager, Bentley Motors Limited

Antony started work in 1982 at Schmidt Manufacturing on the development of compact road sweepers, the slowest vehicle in the world.

He moved to Ralt racing cars in 1985, developing sheet metal chassis skins for the production of F3 cars. From there Antony joined March Racing in 1987, working in the Indy Car division and became involved with the development and production of carbon fibre composites for racing car chassis.

In 1988 he transferred to the Formula 1 division of March Racing, which later became Leyton House.  Here Antony continued carbon fibre chassis development from where, in 1990, he moved to McLaren Racing to work as a senior composites engineer as part of the racing car development programme.  This included Ayrton Senna’s world championship winning McLaren-Honda in 1990, which he worked on before moving to McLaren Cars Ltd, to work on the fastest road car, the McLaren F1.

Since leaving McLaren, Antony has worked on road car programmes in the styling studios in Spain and Germany producing one-off show cars as tasters of cars to come.  At Bentley Motors, Antony has worked on the new product line and is currently developing a cost effective hybrid chassis solution using an automated carbon fibre delivery process as well as a low cost sheet metal process for a vehicle demonstrator at Bentley.