Benetton Formula
Fry had an interest in building suspension systems for motorbikes in his spare time, and joined the Benetton Formula One team's research and development department in Witney, Oxfordshire, who at the time were working on active suspension systems. He moved to the test team and then to the team's Godalming research and development department. He returned to the test team in , before being made Martin Brundle's race engineer in .