ANDY SCRIVEN

Hometown:  Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, USA

Career Highlights:

By mid-1998 had finalized a new sports car design with Max Crawford, the basis for the Crawford SSC2K.  By November of that year the pair was working together full-time to make the dream become a reality.

Moved to California in 1998 to join Precision Preparation Inc., (PPI) as text engineer in the CART FedEx Championships Series and to set-up and run the 7-post vehicle dynamics project.

In early 1997, headed up Penske Racing South’s development of the Ford Taurus for the NASCAR Winston Cup Series.

In 1995 was promoted to chief engineer at Penske Racing South and coordinated all engineering projects.

Joined Penske Racing South in 1991 charged with starting the wind tunnel program.  Shortly thereafter, he moved to Marlboro Team Penske and spent four years working on the design for a new Penske chassis that, combined with Mercedes-Benz power, dominated the 1994 Indy 500.

In 1988 moved to Lola as chief designer of the Lola-Nissan Group C project, a clean-sheet-of-paper design for Nissan, that competed for two seasons in Group C racing.  One of these cars won the Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona in 1992.

Moved to Motor Racing Developments (Brabham) in 1988to work on the Alfa-Romeo Pro-car project.  Pro-car was Bernie Ecclestone’s vision of a high-tech NASCAR-style racecar powered by a Formula One engine.  It was one of the most expensive racecars ever designed.  The car was a full-size carbon fiber copy of the Alfa Romeo 155 road car with a 3.5-liter V10 engine mounted where the rear seat would be located.

Joined Tom Walkinshaw Racing in late 1985 and initially worked on the design of the Jaguar V12 engine for the Jaguar Group C program.  In 1987 was promoted to Le Mans project engineer and worked with Tony Southgate to coordinate the design and engineering of the Le Mans Jaguars.

Received first exposure to motor sports design and manufacturing in 1984 with Tiga Race Cars as a draftsman (and parts van driver).  The following year he produced the design for the GT285 IMSA Lights/C2 car.