BRM P201
The BRM P201 , also known as the BRM P201 , was a Formula 1 racing car , built and used in 1974 and 1975 by the British Formula 1 team British Racing Motors .
The P201 was developed by Mike Pilbeam and had very angular flanks, which were created by protruding coolers. The driver sat very low in the cockpit. The weak point of the racing car was the completely outdated BRM 12-cylinder engine, which had too little power but consumed a lot of fuel.
The P201 raced for the first time with Frenchman Jean-Pierre Beltoise at the 1974 South African Grand Prix in Kyalami . Beltoise had already finished 11th in training and in the race he surprised the competition with second place behind Carlos Reutemann in a Brabham BT44 . What looked like a return to success to the professional world was the final podium for a BRM Formula 1 racing car. At the Belgian Grand Prix in Nivelles-Baulers , Beltoise finished fifth, the last points for BRM in Formula 1.
BRM deployed four works drivers in 1974, but only two P201 were fully operational. Henri Pescarolo and François Migault therefore had to take turns using the P160 .
In 1975 BRM tried again with the British Mike Wilds a new start. Most of the employees had left BRM and Louis Stanley was using the P201 as the Stanley-BRM P201 . From the South African Grand Prix , Wilds was replaced by Bob Evans , who, like his predecessor, had no chance of achieving success with this vehicle.
literature
- David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 49.
