BRM P207
The BRM P207 , also known as the BRM P207 , was a Formula 1 racing car , built and used in the late 1970s by the British Formula 1 team British Racing Motors .
The British designer Len Terry built the last BRM for the Formula 1 World Championship in 1977. The great days of the racing team were long over in 1977 when Louis Stanley tried again to build on the old successes. The P207, officially on the starting lists as the Stanley-BRM P207, had a massive design and was hardly competitive. Only the 480 hp V12 engine ensured that the car did not become a complete flop. The car constantly suffered from being overweight and the associated poor weight distribution. The front and rear suspensions also broke if the load was too great. Overall, the P207 could only be qualified for a race once.
The team registered for the first time for the second race of the season, the 1977 Brazilian Grand Prix . The driver was Larry Perkins . He qualified last, but was six seconds slower than the penultimate, Alex-Dias Ribeiro in a privately entered March 761B from last year . In the race, Perkins dropped out on the first lap when his engine overheated and collapsed. At the subsequent Grand Prix of South Africa , BRM reappeared with the old P201B. The team skipped the fourth race of the season entirely.
At the Grand Prix of Spain , Belgium , Sweden and France , BRM registered the P 207 for Conny Anderson ; he could not qualify in each case. Guy Edwards , who replaced Anderson at the British Grand Prix , even failed there because of the pre-qualification. Teddy Pilette finally appeared with the car at the Grand Prix in Germany , the Netherlands and Italy , although without even qualifying once.
The car later appeared in national Formula 1 races in Great Britain, the Aurora series , but there too without any countable success. In 1979 the P230 was derived from the P207, which was built for Derrick Berridge and John Jordan. The car, which already relied on Groundeffect technology but was still based on the P207 with its weight problem, drove as Jordan-BRM in national races in Great Britain in the Aurora series in the early 1980s. Again the successes failed and BRM finally disappeared into oblivion.
Results
| driver | No. | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | Points | rank |
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 L. Perkins
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C. Andersson
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35 | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||||||||
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G. Edwards
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T. Pilette
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40 | DNQ | ||||||||||||||||||
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T. Pilette
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29 | DNQ | DNQ | |||||||||||||||||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Literature and Sources
- David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 49.
