Chevron Cars
Chevron was a British manufacturer of sports cars and racing vehicles.
The brand of British designer Derek Bennett (1933–1978) was known in the 1950s for the sports and touring cars, which were built in small series in a small workshop in Bolton . Like Eric Broadley , the founder of Lola , and Colin Chapman , who built his vehicles under the Lotus name , Bennett soon turned to racing cars. He developed vehicles for Formula Junior , two-seater sports cars and in 1967 the first Formula 2 car , the Chevron B7 . The Chevron racing cars were an integral part of the Formula 2 European Championship until the 1980s. Chevron was also involved in Formula 5000 . Peter Gethin won in 1973 in a Chevron B24 in the Race of Champions in Brands Hatch .
In 1978, Chevron prepared to enter Formula 1 . Although the Chevron B41 was a viable racing car, the team never drove a world championship run. Bennett's death in a hang glider accident quickly got the company into trouble. Bennett had been the driving force, his panache was lost with him.
In the spring of 1980, Chevron had to file for bankruptcy and the company was liquidated. The German Formula 2 racing team Maurer Motorsport moved into Chevron's factory halls at the beginning of 1980 in order to produce its own vehicles there over the next two and a half years and to prepare the works team for racing. A Scottish consortium took over the remaining company and moved it to Winchester. After the construction of some racing cars for Formula Ford , the company was finally closed in 1983.
literature
David Hodges: Racing Cars from A to Z after 1945 , Stuttgart, Motorbuch Verlag, 1994, pp. 53–55, ISBN 3-613-01477-7
