BRM P67
The BRM P67 , also known as the BRM P67 , was a Formula 1 racing car from 1964 .
In 1964, British Racing Motors also experimented with four-wheel drive technology in monoposto construction. Technician Mike Pilbeam used a P61 chassis from the previous year. The V-engine was rotated 180 degrees so that the clutch was now directly behind the cockpit. The cockpit was moved slightly to the left to make room for the gearbox, which is now placed next to the driver's legs. The four-wheel drive came from Ferguson.
BRM works driver Richie Ginther took over the test work, which took some time because the drive was not fully developed. The P67 was supposed to accommodate the 16-cylinder engine that BRM was already working on in parallel. The P67 made its debut at the 1964 British Grand Prix . Richard Attwood was so slow in training that BRM pulled the car back again. Due to a lack of resources and because the BRM team management was never really convinced of the project, work on the P67 was stopped. The vehicle was not used in any races of the automobile world championship .
The car then stood in the BRM factory for two years before it was sold to the British racing driver Peter Lawson. Lawson replaced the 1.5-liter engine with a 2.1-liter unit and won the British hill climb championship with the P67 in 1968.
literature
- David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 47.
