What is Nigel Stepney?
{{Infobox sportsperson | name = Nigel Stepney | image = Stepneytodt.JPG | caption = | birth_date = 14 November 1958 | death_date = {{death date and age|2014|05|2|1958|11|14}} | occupation = [[Race car]] [[mechanic]] }} '''Nigel Stepney''' (14 November 1958<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.jrm-group.com/files/AreaArticles-pdf-165.pdf|format=PDF|accessdate=2 May 2014|date=2 May 2014|title=Nigel Stepney 1958&nbsp;– 2014|work=JRM Group|publisher=JR Motorsports Group|location=[[Daventry]], [[Northamptonshire]]|archive-date=3 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140503035903/http://www.jrm-group.com/files/AreaArticles-pdf-165.pdf|url-status=dead}}</ref>&nbsp;– 2 May 2014) was a [[British people|British]] [[Formula One]] [[mechanic]]. He was the team manager and chief mechanic of [[JRM Racing]],<ref>{{cite web|title=THE TEAMS JRM Racing|url=http://www.jrm-group.com/jrm-racing-and-sumopowergt-gt1/the-teams|accessdate=15 Oct 2012|archive-date=21 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120921020900/http://www.jrm-group.com/jrm-racing-and-sumopowergt-gt1/the-teams|url-status=dead}}</ref> in the [[FIA World Endurance Championship]]. He started in Formula One as a mechanic at [[Shadow Racing Cars|Shadow]] in 1977, then followed [[Elio de Angelis]] to [[Team Lotus]] before moving to [[Benetton Formula|Benetton]] for the late 1980s and early 90s. He worked with [[Scuderia Ferrari]] with [[Michael Schumacher]], [[Rory Byrne]] and [[Ross Brawn]]. He was killed in a road traffic incident on the [[M20 motorway]] in [[Ashford, Kent]] on 2 May 2014, aged 55.<ref name=autosportdeath>{{cite news|title= Ex-Ferrari Formula 1 mechanic Nigel Stepney killed in road accident |url= http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/113739 |last= Noble |first= Jonathan |work= Autosport.com |date= 2 May 2014 |accessdate= 2 May 2014 }}</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Stepney, Nigel}} [[Category:1958 births]] [[Category:2014 deaths]] [[Category:Sportspeople from Kent]] [[Category:Road accident deaths in