Connaught Type B
The Connaught Type B was a Formula 1 racing car that was built by Connaught Engineering in 1954 and was used until 1958.
The first Connaught Type B wagon first appeared in the fall of 1954 . It had a streamlined one-piece body and a distinctive tail fin. The B-Type was in contrast to the A-type , that of a Lea-Francis was driven -Aggregat, an Alta - front engine with dual overhead camshafts. The engine developed 176 kW (240 PS) and gave the car a lot of propulsion. Like the A-Type, the B-Type had a pre-selection gear, a front suspension with wishbones and coil springs and a De-Dion axle at the rear .
In 1956 the works team took part in only two world championship races, but these were contested with astonishing success. Ron Flockhart was at the Italian Grand Prix by third parties, in the same race was Jack Fairman , of the British Grand Prix in fourth already had become, in fifth. 1955 won Tony Brooks with the B-Type the Gran Premio di Siracusa . The car had a wedge-shaped special body that gave it the name "toothpaste tube". Brooks' win marked the first British driver's win in a British car in a Grand Prix race in 31 years.
The last Grand Prix with a Connaught drove Stuart Lewis-Evans , who finished fourth in a B-Type at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix . Even before the successor model, the Type C , was completed, Connaught stopped racing.
Bernie Ecclestone bought some of the vehicles in 1958 and fielded two Connaught Type B at the 1958 Monaco Grand Prix , neither he nor his teammate Bruce Kessler managed to qualify for the race .
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- ↑ GRAND PRIX RESULTS: MONACO GP, 1958 , grandprix.com, accessed October 30, 2013.