Ray Mallock
Anthony Raymond Mallock is a British former racing driver and founder of RML Group Ltd, the motorsports and high performance automotive organisation formally known as Ray Mallock Limited.
Mallock competed in Formula Ford in 1969, Clubmans Formula in 1970 and 1971, Formula 3 in 1971 and 1972 all in Mallock U2 cars of his father's design, Major Arthur Mallock. He then competed in Formula Atlantic, Formula 2 between 1973 and 1977 before the British Formula One Championship from 1978 to 1980.
Mallock competed at Le Mans for the first time in 1979 before returning with the Aston Martin Nimrod programme in 1982, 1983 and 1984. In 1985, 1986 and 1987 he was responsible for the design, development and operation of the Ecurie Ecosse Group C2 cars with which the team won the C2 class of the World Sportscar championship in 1986 with Austin Rover engines. Mallock won 8 rounds of the World Sportscar championship in cars of his own design between 1985 and 1987.
Mallock was responsible for the design and development of the Aston Martin AMR-1 Group C1 cars, employing Canadian Max Boxstrom as chief designer.
He retired from professional race car driving in 1989 to concentrate on engineering and developing his business, Ray Mallock Limited.