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Ascot Roadster |
Wayne Rogers - Project Designer, CEO |
Wayne Rogers
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Wayne Rogers, creator of the Ascot Roadster Project, has spent over three decades in the automotive and racing industry.
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Rogers at the wheel of his first Formula Car Design. Volkswagen Power. 1969 |
Rogers is a graduate of Commonwealth College of Sciences with a Master's degree in Physics, and is currently the Chairman and CEO or Semray Industries, Inc., a registered holding company and the parent company of Rogers Automotive Design International, Inc., home of the Ascot Roadster Project.
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Rogers as a Championship Driver. Discussing handling of race car with engineer. 1989 |
As a driver, he has won numerous championships in a variety of racing machines and later developed his skills as a racing teacher, chassis engineer and designer. Driven by the need to continuously improve the breed, many of the lessons learned on the track have made their way into the design of the Ascot Roadster.
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CanAm design that inspired the Macho street version. Aluminum Buick V8. 1973 |
Rogers spent many years teaching others the art and science of performance driving. As CEO of the worlds leading racing school, Rogers has been responsible for instructing thousands of drivers from amateurs to professionals competing in Indy cars to NASCAR.
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Rebuilding team tube frame chassis, in original shop building. 1969 |
Designing his first complete chassis in the late 60's, he has penned countless designs since that time.
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Original sketch of the Rogers Designed "Macho" CanAm street kit car. 1972 |
These include single seat formula cars, full body sports
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Rogers Designed "Macho" CanAm street kit car. Turbo Corvair, VW or Porsche power. Produced form 1973 to 1975 |
racing machines, to his Macho kit car design of the early 70's. This was a street version one of his successful U2 CanAm designs. Approximately 250 of the kits were sold before production was intentionally discontinued.
Rogers has worked with Carroll Shelby and Shelby American on several projects, including a TV documentary on how to build a race car. This project started from a clean sheet of paper and went through the final testing of the design.
While driving, chassis and suspension design has always been Rogers first love, the urge to bring something to the street that was unique, high performance and fun had always been an important goal.
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7 Liter CanAm design at speed. 1979 |
The Ascot Roadster was the brain child of Rogers in late 1998. After considerable work on the concept, pen was put to paper and the project was born.
A brief pictorial history of designs and experience..............
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Tuning 850 HP Formula Car. 1977 |
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Rogers instructs Craig T. Nelson on driving at Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey, CA. 1994 |
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Rogers, in car, Pat Patterson, owner of Race Day TV show. Testing Shelby CanAm Car. 1995 |
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Rogers, on right, and Pat Patterson during of taping of Race Day documentary on how to design and build a race car. 1995 |
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Shelby Project ready for testing, Rogers at the wheel. 1995 |
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Wayne and Karen Rogers, test session in rotary formula car. 1989 |
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Rick Mears, Al Unser, Jr. and Rogers in rear. Racing School 1994 |
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F2000 Design in Rogers race shop. Car driven by Jimmy Vasser in Canadian Championship Series. Unique radiator design behind driver to improve drag. 1990 |
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Rogers and Shelby testing design for mass produced race car. 1990 |
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Building of prototype body for open wheel race car. Roy Rogers, father of Wayne Rogers, seen in background. Sr. Rogers developed the final body by hand. 1989 |
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Formula car design in Rogers prototype shop. 1988 |
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Rogers designed system for filming of IMAX productions. Car driven by Mario Andretti. 1992 |
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Prototype of small formula car design. This car has been massed produced since 1984 and is still in use today. Top speed 150 MPH. Picture shows new aerodynamic body update. 1995 |
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Rogers giving race car driving lessons to Craig T. Nelson prior to filming of TV show on racing. 1995 |
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Example of tube frame design and manufacture for formula car. 1992. Note concept of passing steering through upper frame holes. |
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Complex front suspension on Indy car. Shocks and springs are mounted in the nose, activated by rockers. 1994 |
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Front view of complex tube frame chassis. Rogers used these chassis in the racing school and mechanics training programs. |
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Rogers owned racing school fleet and mechanic ready for action. |
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