Matra MS5
The Matra MS5 was a Formula 3 racing car from Matra that was used from 1965 to 1969.
The MS5 was Matra's definitive Formula 3 car based on the MS1 test car. Just before the Formula 3 race in Monaco , the first two cars were ready. A total of five MS5s were built in 1965, others followed, and some remained in racing until 1969.
For Matra, the national races in France had absolute priority. In 1965, Jean-Pierre Beltoise won the French Formula 3 championship ahead of his teammate Jean-Pierre Jaussaud . In 1966 Beltoise won the important Formula 3 race in Monaco with the MS5. In 1967 the works team dominated the Argentine championship and the two new works drivers Henri Pescarolo and Jean-Pierre Jabouille won the races in Monaco and Rouen . At the end of the season, however, the works team was dissolved; French private teams bought the factory cars.
Matra managing director Jean-Luc Lagardère had already signed an agreement with Ken Tyrrell in 1965 to enter Formula 2 with the British racing team owner . Tyrrell was given an MS5 with a BRM Formula 2 engine for test purposes, and from 1966 the team competed in Formula 2 under the team name Matra International . The MS5 adapted to the regulations ran there under the type designation MS6 .
literature
- José Rosinski: Matra. La Saga 1965-1982. ETAI, Boulogne 1997, ISBN 2-7268-8301-X .
