NationMaster - Encyclopedia: British Racing Motors

British Racing Motors (generally known as BRM) was a British Formula 1 motor racing team. Founded in 1945, it raced from 1950 to 1977, competing in 197 Grand Prix and winning 17. In 1962, BRM won the Constructors' Title. At the same time, its driver, Graham Hill became World Champion. In 1963, 1964, 1965 and 1971, BRM came second in the Constructors' Competition. Image File history File links BRMLogo. ... Location within the British Isles Bourne is a town in southern Lincolnshire, England. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... Reg Parnell was a Formula One driver from Britain. ... John Michael Hawthorn (April 10, 1929 - January 22, 1959) was a race car driver, born in Mexborough, Yorkshire, England. ... Maurice Trintignant, born October 30, 1917 in Sainte-Cécile-les-Vignes in the Vaucluse departement of the Provence-Alpes-Côte dAzur Region of France, is a race car driver. ... Joakim Jo Bonnier (Djurgarden, Stockholm, January 31, 1930 - Le Mans Circuit, Le Mans, France, June 11, 1972) was a Swedish racing driver. ... Daniel Sexton Gurney (born April 13, 1931) is one of the most important figures in the history of American auto racing. ... Norman Graham Hill (February 17, 1929 - November 29, 1975) was an English motor racing champion. ... Jackie Stewart talks with fans at the 2005 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis Sir John Young Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire), better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a three-time Scottish Formula One racing champion. ... John Surtees (Ferrari) at the British Grand Prix 1964 John Surtees MBE (born February 11, 1934) is an English World Champion motorcycle racer and race car driver. ... The litre (spelled litre in Commonwealth English and liter in American English) is a unit of volume. ... A V12 is an internal combustion engine with 12 cylinders in V configuration. ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Silverstone Circuit is a racing circuit at Silverstone, England. ... Renault F1 are the current World Constructors Champions The Formula One World Constructors Championship (WCC) is awarded by the FIA to the most successful Formula One constructor over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Formula One World Drivers Championship (WDC) is awarded by the FÃ©dÃ©ration Internationale de lAutomobile (FIA) to the most successful Formula One race car driver over a season, as determined by a points system based on Grand Prix results. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... This article recaps the 1977 Formula One season. ... Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel auto racing. ... Auto racing (also known as automobile racing or autosport) is a sport involving racing automobiles. ... 1945 (MCMXLV) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1945 calendar). ... 1950 (MCML) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... For the album by Ash, see 1977 (album). ... Georges Boillot winning the 1912 French Grand Prix in Dieppe, France Grand Prix motor racing has its roots in organized automobile racing that began in France as far back as 1894. ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... Norman Graham Hill (February 17, 1929 - November 29, 1975) was an English motor racing champion. ... 1963 (MCMLXIII) was a common year starting on Tuesday (the link is to a full 1963 calendar). ... For the Nintendo 64 emulator, see 1964 (Emulator). ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1971 calendar). ...

History

BRM was founded just after the Second World War by Raymond Mays, who had built several hillclimb and road racing cars under the ERA brand before the war, and Peter Berthon, a long-time associate. Mays' pre-war successes led to contacts with Alfred Owen in 1945, with the idea to form a British motor racing team to compete with the Europeans on the Continent. Owen ran the Rubery Owen group of companies, which primarily manufactured auto parts. German soldiers at the Battle of Stalingrad World War II was the most extensive and costly armed conflict in the history of the world, involving the great majority of the worlds nations, being fought simultaneously in several major theatres, and costing tens of millions of lives. ... Thomas Raymond Mays (born in Bourne, Lincolnshire, August 1, 1899 - dead January 6, 1980) was an auto racing driver from England. ... Hillclimbing (sometimes known as speed hillclimbing) is a branch of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock to complete an uphill course. ... Road racing can be a term involving road running, road bicycle races, or automobile races. ... English Racing Automobiles (ERA) was a Formula One constructor from 1950 through 1952. ...

V 16

A factory was set up in Spalding Road, Bourne, Lincolnshire, behind Eastgate House, Mays' family home. (At this stage it was in the former ERA works, vacated in 1939 and used in 1944 as a billet for the Parachute Regiment as it regrouped before going to Arnhem.) Several people involved with ERA returned to the firm to work for BRM, including Harry Mundy and Eric Richter. The first post-war set of rules for the top level of motor racing allowed 1.5 litre supercharged or 4.5 litre unsupercharged engines. Location within the British Isles Bourne is a town in southern Lincolnshire, England. ... Lincolnshire (abbreviated Lincs) is a county in the East Midlands of England. ... 1939 (MCMXXXIX) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1944 (MCMXLIV) was a leap year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1944 calendar). ... The Parachute Regiments display team, the Red Devils at an American airshow The Parachute Regiment is the main body of elite airborne troops of the British Army. ... Operation Market Garden was an Allied military operation in World War II, which took place in September 1944. ...

BRM's first engine design was an extremely ambitious 1.5 litre supercharged V16. Rolls-Royce was contracted to produce centrifugal superchargers, rather than the more commonly used Roots type supercharger. Since his experience on the supercharging of the ERA engines, Berthon had been doing war-time work on aero-engines at Rolls Royce, Derby. The design concept of the V16 had not been used extensively on automobiles before so that design problems were many and the engine did not fire for the first time until June of 1949. It proved to be outstandingly powerful but this output was produced over a rather limited range of engine speed. This compressor charged 16 cylinder engine from 1951 was competing in Formula 1. ... The Rolls Royce logo Rolls-Royce is a set of several companies, all deriving from the British automobile and aero-engine manufacturing company founded by Henry Royce and C.S. Rolls in 1906. ... Cover of Hot Rod magazine showing Ford Flathead V8 engine with centrifugal supercharger (on top) The centrifugal type supercharger is practically identical in operation to a turbocharger, with the exception that instead of exhaust gases driving an impeller, there is only a compressor housing, and that is driven from the... The Roots type supercharger is a positive displacement type device that operates by pulling air through a pair of meshing lobes not dissimilar to a set of stretched gears. ... Derby (pronounced dar-bee ) is a city in the East Midlands of England. ... 1949 (MCMXLIX) is a common year starting on Saturday. ...

The Type 15, which was the designation for the V16 car won the first two races it actually started, the Formula Libre and Formula One events at Goodwood in September, 1950, driven by Reg Parnell. However, it was never to be so successful again. The engine proved unreliable, and the team's development efforts were not up to the task of improving the situation. A string of failures caused much embarrassment, and the problems were still unsolved when the CSI announced in 1952 that for 1954, a new engine formula of 2.5 litres unsupercharged or 750cc supercharged would take effect. Formula One - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Goodwood is an area in eastern Leicester. ... Reg Parnell was a Formula One driver from Britain. ... The FÃ©dÃ©ration Internationale de lAutomobile, commonly referred to as the FIA, is a non-profit association established on June 20, 1904 to represent the interest of motoring organisations and motor car users. ... 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Crisis

The Type 25 was the next car. It used a 2.5L unsupercharged four-cylinder engine and it too was unsuccessful, not winning a race until a long awaited victory at the dutch gp in 1959. The firm moved to a purpose-built workshop on an adjoining site in Spring 1960 but when the 1.5 litre unsupercharged Formula 1 regulation was introduced in 1961, Alfred Owen was threatening to pull the plug unless race victories were achieved very soon. 1960 (MCMLX) was a leap year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1960 calendar). ... 1961 (MCMLXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

Champions

BRM managed to build an engine designed by Peter Berthon and Aubrey Woods (BRM P56 V8) which was on a par with the Dino V6 used by Ferrari and the Coventry-Climax V8 used by other British teams. However, the real change was a junior engineer who had been with the team since 1950; Tony Rudd was elevated by Owen to the position of chief development engineer. Rudd was the first competent engineer in that role in the team's history, and problems which had plagued the team for years began to vanish. He was appointed after the two drivers, Graham Hill and Ritchie Ginther, went on strike and told Alfred Owen they would not drive again unless executive authority was given to Tony Rudd. Raymond Mays and Peter Berthon were sidelined. The team designed their first mid-engined car, matching the other teams, and won the World Drivers Championship with Graham Hill as a driver, in 1962. The current Ferrari logo Ferrari is an Italian manufacturer of high-end Formula One cars, race cars, Exotic cars and high-performance sports cars formed by Enzo Ferrari in 1929. ... Coventry Climax was a British specialty engine manufacturer. ... In Automobile design, an MR or Mid-engine, Rear wheel drive layout drives the rear wheels with an engine placed just in front of them, behind the passenger compartment. ... Norman Graham Hill (February 17, 1929 - November 29, 1975) was an English motor racing champion. ...

Cover of Road & Track magazine, showing BRM H16 engine. ... Cover of Road & Track magazine, showing BRM H16 engine. ...

H 16

For 1966, the engine regulations changed to 3.0 litre unsupercharged (or 1.5 litre supercharged) engines. BRM refused Aubrey Woods' proposal to build a V12, and instead built a strange engine H 16 (BRM 75), which used two flat-8 engines one above the other, with the crankshafts geared together. This engine was powerful but heavy and unreliable, had low torque and a high centre of gravity. The reason for the choice of this design remains obscure but it is probable that BRM found the H 16 attractive because it shared some parts with the 1.5 litre V8. Jackie Stewart (who drove for BRM in this period) is believed to have said "This piece of metal is better used as a ship's anchor than as a power plant". At that time BRM earned the nickname of "British Racing Misery". However, Lotus had been using the BRM 1.5 V8, and along with others, had used the engines stretched to 2.0 litre form for some races during 1966, as competitive 3.0 engines were in short supply in this first year of the new regulations. Lotus took up the H16, building the Lotus 43 to house it, and Jim Clark managed to win the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen with this combination. It was the only victory for this engine in a World Championship race. 1966 (MCMLXVI) was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ... A V12 is an internal combustion engine with 12 cylinders in V configuration. ... An H engine (or H-block) is an engine configuration in which the cylinders are aligned so that if viewed from the front appear to be in a horizontal letter H. An H engine can be viewed as two flat engines, one atop the other. ... Jackie Stewart talks with fans at the 2005 United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis Sir John Young Stewart, OBE (born 11 June 1939 in Milton, West Dunbartonshire), better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a three-time Scottish Formula One racing champion. ... Lotus Cars is a British manufacturer of sports cars and racing cars based in East Anglia and formed as Lotus Engineering Ltd. ... This article is about the racing driver Jim Clark. ... The United States Grand Prix is a motor racing event which has taken place at various times since 1959 in several locations, at first as a part of the American Grand Prize series and later as a race in the Formula One World Championship. ... Watkins Glen is: a town in New York state, an Auto racing course near the town, and a state park. ...

V 12

The H 16 was replaced by a V 12 designed by Woods. This engine was first used by McLaren. Jean Pierre Beltoise won the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix with the P160. The last notable performance was a second position in the 1974 South African Grand Prix with the P201. McLaren, founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren (1937â€“1970), is a racing team based in Woking, England, which is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, Canadian-American Challenge Cup, and 24 Hours of Le Mans. ... Jean Pierre Beltoise (Paris, April 26, 1937) was a Formula One driver from France. ... Results from the 1972 Formula One Monaco Grand Prix held at Monaco on May 14, 1972 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Jean Pierre Beltoise 140. ... Results from the 1974 Formula One South African Grand Prix held at Kyalami on March 30, 1974 Classification Notes Fastest Lap: Carlos Reutemann 118. ...

Later, the firm sold engines to other constructors of which the most notable were John Wyer, McLaren and Matra. John Wyer, born Dec. ... McLaren, founded in 1963 by Bruce McLaren (1937â€“1970), is a racing team based in Woking, England, which is best known as a Formula One constructor but has also competed in the Indianapolis 500-Mile Race, Canadian-American Challenge Cup, and 24 Hours of Le Mans. ... MÃ©canique Avion TRAction or Matra is a French company covering a wide range of activities mainly related to aeronautics and weaponry which today operates as the LagardÃ¨re Group. ...

Exhibition

There is a small exhibition about Raymond Mays, including his interest in BRM, together with the trophies won by BRM while it was owned by the Owen Organisation, at Bourne Civic Society's Heritage Centre. It is open on weekend and bank holiday afternoons, Christmas excepted.

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Computer simulation

You can drive a detailed virtual recreation of the BRM H16-powered P115 and the BRM P261 in the pc-based F1-simulation Grand Prix Legends. Grand Prix Legends (GPL) is a computer simulation of the 1967 Formula One season. ...

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Where it happened

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