RICARDO DIVILA 1945-2020
Apr 30, 2020
4 minutes
GARY WATKINS
OBITUARY
Ricardo Divila did it all: the Brazilian engineer, who has died aged 74, worked across just about every racing discipline over a period of more than 60 years. He may be best known for designing a run of Fittipaldi Formula 1 cars in the 1970s, but his time with the team was just one chapter in the story of an amazing career that stretched from the Maserati 250F to the Nissan DeltaWing and beyond.
Divila, who was christened Richard at the behest of his English mother but by law required a Brazilian name on his birth certificate, had further stints in
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