SPARK-MODEL - BRABHAM - F1 BT19 N 12 WINNER FRENCH GP JACK BRABHAM 1966 WORLD CHAMPION

Scale: 1/18
Carmodel code: CAR131896
Manufacturer code: 18S505
Colour: GREEN GOLD
Material: resin
Year: 1966
EAN: 9580006475053
Notes: F1 WORLD CHAMPION

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Having left Dan Gurney to form his team, on the eve of the 1966 F1 championship, Jack Brabham announced that the Brabham Racing Organization would hire Denis Hulme and use Australian Repco V8 engines. The Repco was based on an Oldsmobile block which was developed by Frank Hallam and Phil Irving for the Tasman championship. The displacement had been raised to 2994cc, for a power, all in all modest, of about 300 horsepower. Young John Judd was commissioned by Coventry Climax to further develop the Repco engine. Ron Tauranac modified the Brabham BT19 chassis, initially conceived for the 1500cc 16-cylinder Climax, to accommodate the Repco V8 type 620. The Hewland HD5 gearbox was initially used, then replaced by the DG300. Jack Brabham used the BT19 for the first 7 out of 9 GPs, winning in France, England, Holland and Germany, becoming world champion. Brabham, which in that year also used the BT11 and BT20, won the constructors' championship.

By David Tarallo

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