Pacenotes – January 2013

• Tim Wardrop, who was Arie Luyendyk’s race engineer when the Dutchman set the all-time one- and four-lap speed records at Indianapolis of 237.492mph and 236.986mph, respectively, in 1996, has died at the age of 62 following a long illness. British-born Wardrop worked as a mechanic with the Williams, McLaren and Wolf teams in Formula One, and was an engineer with March, while his Indycar resume included time with teams such as Newman/Haas, A.J. Foyt, John Menard, Fred Treadway and Derrick Walker, among others, He also engineered Luyendyk’s second Indy 500 win in 1997 with an Oldsmobile-powered G Force.

• Gaston Andrey, a five-time SCCA National Champion and six times a winner in the Trans-Am’s U2L and 2.5 Challenge with Alfa Romeo, has passed away at the age of 86. The Swiss-born Andrey first raced in 1954 and was a regular competitor at Sebring in the late ’50s and early ’60s, scoring a pair of class wins there, the first in a Fitch Corvette he shared with Dick Thompson in 1957, the second in an Autodelta TZ2 partnered with Giacomo Russo in 1966. He also won an IMSA International Sedan race at Talladega in 1969 with an Alfa Romeo Giulia Super. For many years Andrey was a Ferrari, Alfa Romeo and Maserati dealer in the Boston area, and later also sold British, Japanese and Swedish cars as well.