1968 Brabham BT25

This is a car I photographed at the Donington Park Museum on a visit there in October 1989.

It's the Brabham BT25 that competed in the Indianapolis 500 race in 1968 and 1969, and the book 'Great Cars of the Donington Collection' says this about it:

'The Indianapolis BT25

Brabham’s first Monocoque

 The late Peter Revson raced a turquoise-painted 4.2 litre Repco-Brabham at the Indianapolis Raceway Park road course in 1969, and won. It was his first success in the United States Auto Club’s race series, and marked the high-tide of the first monocoque Brabham’s career.

Jack Brabham had raced a rear-engined Cooper-Climax in the Indianapolis ‘500’ in 1961, pioneering the road-racing involvement which culminated in Clark’s win for Lotus in 1965. Indy rules for 1968 demanded that the cars’ fuel tanks be sheathed in metal panelling, and so Ron Tauranac’s practical mind decided that a monocoque should replace his long-standing allegiance to the spaceframe. The special 4.2 litre Repco V8 engine was slung in a tubular spaceframe behind a forward monocoque nacelle, and so the BT25 was born.

Brabham and Jochen Rindt drove the first cars, unsuccessfully, in the 1968 ‘500’, and in 1969 Jack returned with Revson as team-mate in developed BT25s. The American starred in the race, starting in thirty-third position and coming through to fifth by the finish. It was his first Indianapolis and signalled the beginning of his rise to new-found prominence as Can-Am Champion and Formula 1 Grand Prix winner before his tragic death.'