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    Motors V8 was a four-stroke, naturally aspirated, 1.5 L (92 cu in), V-8 racing engine, designed, developed and built by British Racing Motors (BRM) to compete...
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  • British Racing Motors (redirect from BRM)
    By the end of the 1961 season BRM had managed to build an engine designed by Peter Berthon and Aubrey Woods (BRM P56 V8) (2.6975 x 2.0 in, 68.5 x 50.8 mm)...
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    teams, BRM was caught off-guard by new regulations for the 1961 Formula 1 season that limited engines to 1.5 litres. They had a new 1.5 liter V8 engine on...
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    looking for a new engine supply while BRM, who built their own very successful V8 engines, had to decide on what manner of new engine to develop to meet...
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    The BRM P75 was a 3-litre (183 cu. in.) H16 motor racing engine, developed by BRM. The engine was relatively competitive but highly unreliable, and was...
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    constructed. It was powered by a naturally-aspirated 2.0 L (120 cu in) BRM V8 engine. Over its racing career, spanning 4 years, it won a total of 3 races...
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    The 33 was pressed into service with bored out 2 litre Climax V8 and BRM V8 engines for the early races of 1966, until the 3 litre Lotus 43 was ready...
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    Crossplane (redirect from V8 Burble)
    in 1963. BRM made the same switch at about the same time, and this carried over into their 1964 P261 F1 car. Four stroke crossplane V8 engines have even...
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    V12 engines are more common than V10 engines. However, they are less common than V8 engines. The first V12 engine was built in 1904 for use in racing boats...
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  • larger engines, the transition was not smooth and 1966 was a transitional year, with 2.0 L versions of the BRM and Coventry-Climax V8 engines being used...
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  • BRM's type 56 engine, a 1.5 litre V8 and a Colotti gearbox. With approximately 200 horsepower, BRM's V8 rivaled Ferrari for the most powerful engine in...
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    common crankshaft. V16 engines are less common than engines with fewer cylinders, such as V8 and V12 engines. Each bank of a V16 engine can be thought of as...
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    caused complications early in the P261's life, as BRM's new, high-exhaust version of the P56 V8 engine was not ready for the start of the 1964 season, and...
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    teams, amongst whom the Cosworth DFV V8 had become nearly ubiquitous, BRM chose a different route for the P153's engine. In accordance with their long-standing...
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    A V8 engine is an eight-cylinder piston engine in which two banks of four cylinders share a common crankshaft and are arranged in a V configuration. The...
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    Lotus 43 (redirect from Lotus-BRM 43)
    Colin Chapman for the 1966 season. Hampered by its heavy and unreliable BRM engine, it won only one race, the 1966 United States Grand Prix. The Lotus 43...
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  • supercharged 1.5-litre (90.8 cu. in.) V-16 cylinder racing engine built by British Racing Motors (BRM) for competing in Formula One motor racing in the immediate...
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    refitted the car with a BRM V8 engine in place of the Climax unit. In turn, when Raby sold BT3 to David Hepworth in 1965, the BRM engine was replaced by a 4...
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  • outing.: 41  This was still less power than the new Coventry-Climax and BRM V8 engines.: 318  With the improved six-speed transmission from the Type 718 and...
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  • combustion engines. After doing several projects with British Racing Motors (BRM), including work on the 1.5-litre F1 V8 engine which powered BRM and driver...
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  • Matra MS620 (category Mid-engined cars)
    built by the company. Fitted with a 1.9 litre version of the BRM Formula One V8 engine, four cars were built, but were mostly used as developmental cars...
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    design from BRM, but it was finished too late and very heavy. So they began the season with a hastily prepared and uncompetitive 2 litre Climax V8. (The team...
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  • outing. This was still less power than the new Coventry-Climax and BRM V8 engines. Work began on Type 753 in 1960, following the announcement of a 1.5-litre...
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    notable exception of Ferrari, BRM and Alfa Romeo scoring wins and titles with V12 engines) to use one of these engines – this at a time when independent...
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    moved from BRM to Lotus, replacing Peter Arundell. Mike Spence was hired as his replacement at BRM, having gained experience with their V8 engine at Reg Parnell's...
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    was powered by the famous Cosworth DFV V8, while rivals BRM and Ferrari made use of self-designed V12 engines. 1970 champions Team Lotus had a desultory...
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    around Honda's revolutionary F1 engine, a 1.5 L V12, at a time when V8s dominated the F1 paddock, as constructed by BRM, Climax, Ferrari and ATS. The only...
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    Ferrari to BRM, where Tony Brooks had retired. The team introduced their own V8 engine for this season, after they had had to rely on Climax engines the year...
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    engine that was originally produced by Cosworth for Formula One motor racing. The name is an abbreviation of Double Four Valve, the engine being a V8...
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    lost its exclusive right to use Cosworth DFV engines, McLaren also started using Cosworth instead of BRM. Scuderia Ferrari ran Chris Amon as their only...
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