A national project funded by British industry that took sixteen years to win a championship — and did it once.
Seasons
1951–1977
Identities
1
Race wins
17
Titles
1 CWC · 1 WDC
Identity timeline
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British Racing Motors was conceived as a patriotic answer to Alfa Romeo and Mercedes, funded by a trust of British companies. The committee structure nearly destroyed it before the team ever became competitive.
Written history by identity
1951 — 1977
1951–1977: the V16, the title and the long decline
British Racing Motors
One double championship in 1962 with Graham Hill.
The supercharged 1.5-litre V16 of the early 1950s was extraordinary — 12,000rpm and an unforgettable noise — and almost entirely unraceable. Public ridicule followed, and Alfred Owen's Rubery Owen group took control in 1952.
The team matured through the late 1950s and won the 1962 drivers' and constructors' championships with Graham Hill and the P57. Hill, Jackie Stewart and Jo Siffert kept BRM near the front through the 1960s.
A complex H16 engine, then thin funding after Rubery Owen withdrew in 1974, left BRM entering ever fewer races. It made its last championship start in 1977.
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