Cooper T90
The Cooper T90 was a Formula 5000 racing car built by the British racing team Cooper in 1969.
Development and racing history
"A production series of 24 cars has been launched, and one can expect the Cooper-Chevrolet T90 to be a huge success."
With this announcement, published in a brochure in 1969, the British racing team, which was just about to end, wanted to draw attention to the new racing car. The company was unable to transfer the optimism that Cooper spread about the brochure into actual racing car construction. Only two T90s were built. Both vehicles, based on the Cooper T86 from Formula 1 , were presented at a number of racing car exhibitions in early 1969. One vehicle was tested intensively, but it was no longer used in the factory.
When Cooper ceased racing in June 1969, the two T90s were sold with the remaining inventory. The T90s ran until the early 1970s, revised several times (one got a Ford engine instead of the Chevrolet ) and used by private teams in the European Formula 5000 Championship , for the first time in September 1969 by Chris Warwick-Drake at the last race the 1969 season . Then with the last two Cooper monopostos, the once so successful racing team finally disappeared from the international race tracks.
Literature and Sources
- David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945. Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 68.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Hodges, Rennwagen von A - Z, page 68.