21st Feb, 2006 0:00
The Centaur
1973 Brabham BT38/40 Single Seater
Estimated at £25,000 - £28,000
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Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac set up Brabham Racing Developments in 1962 with the aim of building single seaters and sports racing cars and running a team up to the level of F1. Their shrewd partnership lasted for less than twelve years after which Tauranac ran it briefly before one Bernard Ecclestone Esq. bought in and discontinued the line of customer cars to become an F1 constructor. Bernie moved out some twelve years later as it was impossible to wear his hat as a team owner and the one he had to wear in the official governing body. Brabham had been a great success as Ron Tauranac and Gordon Murray had won 35 championship races out of a total of 343 contested - a better than 10% success rate - and they had built some very successful privateer cars as well as getting Jack Brabham the world championship crown driving cars bearing his own name. The BT38 was a completely new customer model in 1973 with the basic designation applied to F2, F3 and Formula Atlantic. Designed by Geoff Ferris, about 40 cars had been ordered before the formal announcement including four for the ambitious Motul-backed Rondel F2 team, but by and large development was left to the customers and the professional F2 teams could handle that as Jaussaud in the ASCA and Reutemann and Wollek in the Rondel cars proved. However the only driver to win with a BT38 in F3 was Tony Brise. This particular BT38/41 has completed one race since a full McDonald Race Engineering restoration was undertaken and is now running in the well-respected James Watt racing organisation. It began racing as DFV engined sprint and hill climb car by Peter Kaye with Waring and Gillow sponsorship. Tommy D Read drove it in period in Formula 2 and Formula Libra over 1600cc events and there are photos of it at Ingliston and Croft in 1975.
We are informed by the Watt Organisation that it is race ready, but has been stored and remained unused for three seasons, and comes complete with a set of wet tyres and another fuel tank has been added to the right hand side to aid better weight distribution on right handed circuits and of course is complete with the 2500c four cyclinder Hart engine.
Registration No: N/A
Chassis No: N/A
Mot Expiry: N/A
Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac set up Brabham Racing Developments in 1962 with the aim of building single seaters and sports racing cars and running a team up to the level of F1. Their shrewd partnership lasted for less than twelve years after which Tauranac ran it briefly before one Bernard Ecclestone Esq. bought in and discontinued the line of customer cars to become an F1 constructor. Bernie moved out some twelve years later as it was impossible to wear his hat as a team owner and the one he had to wear in the official governing body. Brabham had been a great success as Ron Tauranac and Gordon Murray had won 35 championship races out of a total of 343 contested - a better than 10% success rate - and they had built some very successful privateer cars as well as getting Jack Brabham the world championship crown driving cars bearing his own name. The BT38 was a completely new customer model in 1973 with the basic designation applied to F2, F3 and Formula Atlantic. Designed by Geoff Ferris, about 40 cars had been ordered before the formal announcement including four for the ambitious Motul-backed Rondel F2 team, but by and large development was left to the customers and the professional F2 teams could handle that as Jaussaud in the ASCA and Reutemann and Wollek in the Rondel cars proved. However the only driver to win with a BT38 in F3 was Tony Brise. This particular BT38/41 has completed one race since a full McDonald Race Engineering restoration was undertaken and is now running in the well-respected James Watt racing organisation. It began racing as DFV engined sprint and hill climb car by Peter Kaye with Waring and Gillow sponsorship. Tommy D Read drove it in period in Formula 2 and Formula Libra over 1600cc events and there are photos of it at Ingliston and Croft in 1975.
We are informed by the Watt Organisation that it is race ready, but has been stored and remained unused for three seasons, and comes complete with a set of wet tyres and another fuel tank has been added to the right hand side to aid better weight distribution on right handed circuits and of course is complete with the 2500c four cyclinder Hart engine.
Auction: The Centaur, 21st Feb, 2006
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