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Andrew Edwards

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
821 total appearances

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Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

So that's kind of, you know, quite an amazing opportunity

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

place to start your career i guess um and uh you know so i did the two years there i started as one and they progressed into two went back finished my degree and then went back there and went over to uh ilmore and or mercedes high performance engines as it was as it turned into

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

And I built the V10 and all that kind of stuff.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

And then it just got banned just before basically it went in the car, unfortunately.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

So yeah, I mean, that was kind of my road in, you know what I mean?

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

I kind of did all the stuff at uni, like Formula Holden, volunteering in Formula Ford, you know what I mean?

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

All that normal stuff, but yeah.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

Yeah, the F1 engine, the engine side of it, that was, I mean, that was amazing to be part of.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

You know, you would never think that that type of project would exist in Australia.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

Yeah, look, it started out, it was Arthur Bishop.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

It was called Bishop and Arthur Bishop, who was a founder there, I guess.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

He had the patent on this rotary valve head that he'd come up with.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

And they did all sorts of stuff.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

They did steering and they did all sorts of things.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

innovation work, I guess, if you like.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

This was just one of his projects and it went on for a while and it's a pretty small, I mean, there's only four people working on this thing.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

And so, you know, they had some money and they developed this thing to a point.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

They went over to England, the F1 teams and spruiked it and said, who wants to, who's interested in this?

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

Only one team was interested.

Lucky Dogs
#30 - Andrew Edwards

That was Mario Willian at