Andy Brown is a British engineer currently running his own motor sports engineering company, ACB Consulting Ltd.
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Andy Brown is a British engineer currently running his own motor sports engineering company, ACB Consulting Ltd.
Brown studied Aeronautical Engineering at the University of Bath graduating in 1981. He then joined British Aerospace at Filton, Bristol (now Airbus), before leaving in 1984 to join March Engineering. He was there until the end of 1990, the last three years being with the March-Leyton House Formula One team as race engineer. [1]
In 1991, Brown joined Brabham as Chief Race Engineer with primary responsibility for Martin Brundle's car. Controversy happened when Brown allegedly became angry with the radios and placed the microphone in the tailpipe keyed up. Authorities never were able to prove the validity of the offense. Brown left the world of Formula One to join Galmer Engineering as Assistant Technical Director. In 1992 they won the Indy 500 with a car of their own design. [1]
Brown later became a founding member and Chief Engineer for PacWest Racing, where they set a new closed course world record of 240.9 mph (387.7 km/h) at Fontana, California in 1997. Following this he joined Panther Racing as Chief Engineer with World Renowned Simulation Engineer Seth Fleming for the 1999 season subsequently winning back-to-back Indy Racing League series championships in 2001 and 2002.
Brown left Panther Racing at the end of 2005 to join Chip Ganassi Racing as race engineer for the No. 10 Target Honda-powered Dallara driven by 2005 IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 champion Dan Wheldon. [2] . Ably backed up by support engineer & Data Logging Guru Brad Goldberg, they finished equal on points with series champion Sam Hornish in 2006 ("We was robbed!", said Brown). He stepped back from race engineering for the 2008 season to concentrate on R&D work, mainly aerodynamics.
For 2011, Brown returned to the UK and created ACB Consulting Ltd., but with his Indycar background most of the company's business interests are naturally still in the USA, the main customers being Chip Ganassi Racing and Honda Performance Development. But with a shortage of such specialised knowledge in the UK, media work, reporting on Indycar activities, has been forthcoming for both magazines and television.
In September of 2020 Andy successfully built a Porsche 911 RSR
Andy has been known to like vintage race cars, Jim Beam, Driving his Purple Corvette, Long Walks on the Beach, Strolling through the English Countryside
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