Tony Southgate: Creating an Indy 500 winner, the Lotus 78 and conquering Le Mans with Jaguar

For success matched only by sheer diversity, few can hold a light to engineering ace Tony Southgate, who joins Rob Widdows for our Engineering the Greats podcast series, produced in association with Scalextric.
Designer of Bobby Unser's Indy 500-winning Eagle 68 car, a key contributor to the trailblazing ground-effect Lotus 78 and the creative mind behind Jaguar's Le Mans-conquering XJR-9, the Coventry native has marked himself out as one of racing's great lateral thinkers.
Along the way, Southgate worked with some of its greatest drivers, including Mario Andretti, Pedro Rodriguez and Dan Gurney.
In this newest episode of Engineering the Greats, Southgate pulls back the curtain on some of motor sport's seminal moments.

[@AmericasChoice]

My favorite designer. I could listen to his stories for hours..

[@mytinplaterailway]

What a fascinating man.
Motor Sport should do a series of these about people - like Tony Southgate - who worked with Colin Chapman.
ASAP! Why not approach Lotus to sponsor it?

[@chunterer]

No mention of when.Tony worked with Tom Pryce.

[@bramwell9544]

These podcasts are my favourite thing on RUclips and this is my favourite of them. The Shadow DN1 is still the most beautiful F1 car

[@christinalloyd9566]

It would have been far more interesting if the interviewer was even slightly technical rather than asking about drivers all the time.

[@friktionrc]

If you want more people to get involved you’re going to have to give them something to hook them in…in this case a driver….majority of F1 fans have little to no idea who the engineers are…all these gentlemen are famous now because of what happened in the past…similarly, no one knows the majority of engineers in F1 right now…but in years to come if they are interviewed and someone says how was it working with Nico Rosberg when he won his title, everyone will then have more of an idea…it’s not belittling the guest, just opening up the interview to those with just a passing interest in the guys (and gals) behind the scene.