History
David Cooper - Technical Director
David Cooper, the founding director, was racing a Supervee single-seater car back in the late 70's. Nigel Rees, a colleague and fellow competitor, was racing a similar car. It wasn't long before the two began comparing notes on the rather 'quaint' handling of their cars. Nigel, being a qualified mechanical engineer, became interested in vehicle dynamics and started writing some early software to analyse the behaviour of the cars. Meanwhile, David, coming from an aeronautical background, started experimenting with different bodywork, ducts and alternative nose and wing profiles.
Eventually, the development potential of both cars was reached, and, Chris Groves - David's racing technician - set up in partnership with Nigel to form a business widely known as Geoscan. Nigel extended the scope of the software so that a full geometrical analysis could be made of a racing suspension system. The service was very popular and many, otherwise mediocre designs, were made to perform remarkably well. In the meantime, David had been busy testing and developing F3 cars in preparation for an attempt at the European championship whilst, Nigel, began race engineering cars at the international F3 and F3000 levels.
Dave Gallop - Workshop & Operations Director
At this point, Dave Gallop enters the picture. Dave began his career studying a 5-year apprenticeship in all aspects of vehicle engineering. He was employed in several well-known garages in the Bristol area, and, subsequently, started his own business specialising in Lotus cars. He had a short period sprinting and hill-climbing a Lotus 7.
In parallel with this, Dave started supporting a local driver in Formula Ford 2000, later in Formula Libre, and winning the national championship. This progressed to F2 /F3000 full-time and culminated with Yvan Muller winning the British F2 championship. Dave was then employed as Head Technician on the Geoscan project in Melksham.
In mid-2002, Nigel spoke to David about a complete re-write of the software that had taken place. The new software, RaceDyne was not just about suspension geometry any more, but was now capable of optimising all aspects of competition car performance. David called Dave Gallop about this work and they began discussing the launch of a new development engineering company which would employ Nigel as their principal consulting engineer.
2003 - 2006
At the end of 2003, Track Developments ltd was created. A workshop was established, minutes away from Castle Combe Circuit, Wiltshire. We are rapidly growing, and our workshop is under continuous improvement, but one thing has stayed the same - our guarantee of customer satisfaction. Please take time to view our website, which will give you an insight into how we can assist with your vehicle, and to read our technical FAQ. Please feel free to contact us to discuss plans for your particular vehicle.
