1972 BRM P180

I took this photograph at Old Hall Corner during the Friday practice for the Gold Cup meeting at Oulton Park in May 1972.

It's Reine Wisell in the  1972 BRM P180, chassis number P180/02 who started in seventh place on the grid but retired after a collision with Ronnie Peterson’s March on the first lap of the race. The P180 was intended to be a replacement for the P153 and P160 cars that had raced in the 1971 season, sharing the same 3 litre V12 engine. Only two cars were built but were so uncompetitive that they were dropped at the end of the season, being replaced by updated versions of the P160.

BRM 50th Anniversary 1999

The 50th Anniversary of the BRM was marked at the Coys International  Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1999 by a display of many of the cars, some of which took part in track parades.

This is a photograph I took during one of these parades when I was stuck in the middle of the Silverstone paddock overlooking the Abbey curve. Not a terribly good photograph, but the pale green BRM V16 was being driven by Argentinian driver José Froilán González who drove the V16 car in a few non-Championship races in 1952 and 1953.The car in front of the BRM V16 looks to be the 1968 BRM P133 which was driven in the display by Reine Wisell, whilst the BRM P25 at the rear seems to have Tony Brooks at the wheel.