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James Newbold

How to be an ace engineer: F2 and damper specialist Gavin Bickerton-Jones

Years of preparing his own karts and single-seater cars gave Gavin Bickerton-Jones plenty of the core skills needed to make a career from motorsport. But never one to rest on his laurels, Norfolk-based Bickerton-Jones developed a specialism in dampers that has made him one of the most in-demand engineers in junior single-seater racing.

A title-winning race engineer in Formula 3000, one of the founding partners of GP2 championship-winning squad iSport International and latterly a Le Mans class-winner, Bickerton-Jones has come a long way since the days he spent scraping together second-hand tyres for his equally second-hand Class B Reynard in the 1987 British Formula 3 championship.

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