British Racing Motors

And very basic, very simple.

And right after the war, an outfit calling itself BRM, which was a construct of a number of British companies that contributed money on the basis that Britain should be represented in Formula One, according to her national importance.

And they built this V-16 powered vehicle.

race car with this tremendous engine in a bonnet that stretched away toward the horizon from the driver and a chassis whose corner frequencies were appalling.

It's a great read about their early years.

Anyway, they decided, we are going to recycle... repurpose, I should say, now I'm getting trendy, repurpose what has been learned about centrifugal blowers, the Merlin, the Griffin, the great English V-12s, fighter engines, had centrifugal blowers that produced the boost that they needed to fight at altitude.

So that technology was applied to the BRM racing car.

It had a 1.5 liter engine.

Yeah.

So he ends up at BRM for '69, which was very much on the wane.

Um, the, the, you know, they'd been a top team in the one-and-a-half liter formula, but they...

Uh, that ended at the end of '65.