The British Racing Motors V16 was a supercharged 1.5-litre (90.8 cu. in.) V-16 cylinder racing engine built by British Racing Motors (BRM) for competing...
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Formula One portal British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula One motor racing team. Founded in 1945 and based in the market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire...
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135-degree V16 engine was installed in the Alfa Romeo Tipo 162. The only known use of a V16 engine in the post-World War II era is the British Racing Motors (BRM)...
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BRM Type 15 (category Use British English from November 2013)
with a revolutionary and highly complex supercharged 1.5-litre British Racing Motors V16 which produced considerably more power than any of its contemporaries...
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Richardson started as an engineer for British Racing Motors, before becoming the main development driver for the BRM V16 project in the early 1950s. He was...
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Paul Jaray. Of the four Auto Union racing cars, the Types A, B and C, used from 1934 to 1937 had supercharged V16 engines, and the final car, the Type...
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BRM P25 (section Racing record)
One racing car raced from 1956 to 1960 and the second car produced by the British Racing Motors consortium. After the failure of the complex BRM V16, the...
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Bugatti (category French auto racing teams)
revealed at the Geneva Motor Show on March 1, 2016. In February 2024, Bugatti announced the successor to the Chiron, which will use a V16 hybrid-electric powertrain...
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Chrysler (redirect from Chrysler Motors Corporation)
General Motors brand diversification and hierarchy strategy that he had become familiar with when he worked in the Buick division at General Motors. He then...
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Bentley Mulsanne (1980–1992) (category Use British English from January 2017)
Bentley-Talk: Exclusive Bentley Community and Forum "Engine Types Explained: V16 Engine". Motor Car Net. Retrieved 22 November 2019. Rijkers, Marinus. "Bentley Mulsanne...
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Cadillac introduced the crossplane crankshaft for its V8, and added V12 and V16 engines to the top of its lineup. Ford never adopted the straight-eight;...
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Harry Mundy (category Use British English from February 2018)
War II he moved to British Racing Motors (BRM) in 1946 as head of the design office, being involved in the design of the BRM V16 Formula One engine,...
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Silver Arrows (category Mercedes-Benz racing cars)
in automobile racing. German race cars for their Silver Arrows silver, Italian for their Rosso corsa red, British ones were British racing green green,...
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Tom Wheatcroft (redirect from Wheatcroft Racing)
had to be there to know what it was like. The W125 Mercs and the V16 Auto Union racing cars were doing 170mph by halfway down the straight. The noise and...
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Stirling Moss (category British Racing Partnership Formula One drivers)
Stirling Craufurd Moss OBE (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British racing driver and broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from 1951 to 1961...
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Reg Parnell (redirect from Bowmaker-Yeoman Racing)
then became involved with BRM, initially as a test driver of the original V16 and later as the team's lead driver of the BRM Type 15, although BRM did...
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"Ulster" by John Eason Gibson in Motor Racing 1946 published 1948 by Motor Racing Publications Ltd. Ludwigsen, Karl (2007). BRM V16, p. 59. Veloce Publishing...
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Cameron Earl (category British automotive engineers)
HMSO, reprint edition, 1996. ISBN 0-11-290550-1 Ludvigsen, Karl "BRM V16: How Britain's auto makers built a Grand Prix car to beat the world ," Veloce, 2007...
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Juan Manuel Fangio (category Argentine racing drivers)
championship and remained absent from F1 until June, when he drove the British BRM V16 in non-championship F1 races at the public road circuits at Albi in...
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Frank Hershey, who produced a remarkably clean, elegant vehicle. A single V16-engined 1931 Peerless was finished in June 1931, the last Peerless ever produced...
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José Froilán González (category Argentine racing drivers)
Argentine racing driver, particularly notable for scoring Ferrari's first win in a Formula One World Championship race at the 1951 British Grand Prix...
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British Racing 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...
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History of the automobile (redirect from Advent of the motor car)
overhead camshaft engines produced at the high end, and V8, V12, and even V16 engines conceived for the ultrarich. Also in 1919, hydraulic brakes were...
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1952 Formula One season (section Race 5: Britain)
The 1952 Formula One season was the sixth season of FIA Formula One motor racing. It featured the 3rd World Championship of Drivers, which was contested...
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Circuit de la Sarthe, he finished seventh in the RAC British Grand Prix in a supercharged 1.5-litre V16 BRM Type 15, with his teammate Reg Parnell in fifth...
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V6 engine (section Motor racing)
engines were based on V8 and V16 engines which also used a V-angle of 45 degrees. 54 degrees — 1994-2004 General Motors 54-degree automotive engine. A...
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Michael (24 May 2010). "Hartz". OldRacingCars.com. "1930 AAA Champ Car Season". nicheforspeed.com. "1931 Miller V16 Racing Car – Car Profile". Sports Car...
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Luigi Fagioli (category Racing drivers who died while racing)
1898 – 20 June 1952), nicknamed "the Abruzzi robber", was an Italian motor racing driver. Having won his last race at 53 years old, Fagioli holds the record...
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Donington Grand Prix Collection (category Auto racing museums and halls of fame)
Donington Grand Prix Exhibition, was a museum of motor racing cars, based at the Donington Park motor racing circuit in Leicestershire, England. The collection...
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Coventry Climax (category Coventry motor companies)
Coventry Climax was a British manufacturer of forklift trucks, fire pumps, racing engines, and other speciality engines. The company was started in 1903...
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