This is one of the cars I photographed on my visit to the Donington Park Museum in September 2014.
It's a 1969 BRM P139, the last of the revisions to the P126/P133/P138/P139 series of cars that proved no better than the previous models. It was powered by the 2,998cc V12 BRM P142 engine and in his five starts in the car in the 1969 season John Surtees only managed to complete one race, finishing third in the United States Grand Prix, and Jackie Oliver similarly only managed one finish out of four, a sixth place in the Mexican Grand Prix. The car's only appearance in the 1970 season was with one car in the South African Grand Prix where George Eaton failed to finish the race. The car was succeeded by the BRM P153 with which Pedro Rodriguez finished in seventh place in the 1970 World Drivers' Championship, winning the Belgian Grand Prix. This car in the Donington Museum is chassis BRM P139/02.
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