16 Facts About BRM

BRM won the constructors' title in 1962 when its driver Graham Hill became world champion.

Stirling Moss believed that the BRM engine was superior to the Coventry-Climax unit used in his Cooper, and a P25 was briefly run in 1959 by the British Racing Partnership, for Moss, and Rob Walker backed the construction of a Cooper-BRM to gain access to the engine.

BRM was given greater responsibility in 1960 after two of the drivers, Graham Hill and Dan Gurney, went on strike and told Alfred Owen they would not drive again, and in early 1962 full executive authority was given to Tony Rudd.

In 1965 Jackie Stewart was signed to partner Hill; he took his first grand prix win at Monza in his debut season, and won the first world championship race of the new three-litre formula with a car fitted with a Tasman two-litre V8; BRM were not ready for the start of a new formula and the old cars continued to be used, even on occasion after the H16 was ready.

H16 engine was redesigned with a narrow-angle four-valve head and magnesium main castings to reduce weight and increase power, but was never raced as BRM decided to use the V12 unit which was being sold to other F1 and sports car teams with encouraging results.

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BRM themselves built further examples of the Terry design, which were designated P133 and 1968 team drivers Mike Spence and Pedro Rodriguez appeared competitive in early season non championship races at Brands Hatch and Silverstone, but then Spence was killed driving the Lotus 56 turbine during qualifying at Indianapolis.

Surtees' time at BRM was not a happy one and, despite the fact that a ground effect "wing car" was designed, this was never constructed and the team's performances were lacklustre.

BRM won the non-championship 1972 World Championship Victory Race later in the year.

BRM were involved with Donald Campbell's gas-turbine Bluebird-Proteus CN7 project.

The BRM-tuned version of the 1557 cc Lotus-Ford Twin Cam engine was particularly popular as the Special Equipment option on the Lotus Elan.

BRM were contracted by Chrysler Competition Department to develop a sixteen-valve cylinder head for the Hillman Avenger engine.

Owen Organisation expected BRM to turn a profit through sales of racing engines; the four-cylinder appeared briefly in a Cooper-BRM special for Stirling Moss but found no other customers.

The BRP-entered BRM for Moss and Herrmann was a non-metallic duck-egg green.

BRM raced again as part of a project by John Mangoletsi for a Group C sports car known as the P351 with the backing of the Owen family to use the BRM name.

In 2012, Bobbie Neate, granddaughter of Alfred Ernest Owen and daughter of Jean Stanley wrote of her memories of BRM racing in the 1950s and 60s in her book Conspiracy of Secrets.

BRM team won seventeen Formula One Grands Prix as follows:.