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1995 was a season of great expectation for McLaren. The disappointing 1994 alliance with Peugeot had been annulled, and Mercedes-Benz switched to the team from Sauber including third-party engine builder partnership with Ilmor Engineering Ltd. after Ilmor decided to reposition its Formula One program by becoming a third-party engine builder and assembler, and thus earned full-factory works ...
Like the other British 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 the drawing board, but it was not likely to be ready until late in the season.
The resulting car named Tyrrell 001 made its debut at Oulton Park in a non-championship race. After the season had finished, Gardner redesigned some sections of the car, altering the airbox, remodelling the nose section, lengthening the wheelbase and slightly narrowing the monocoque. The redesigned car became known as the 002 and 003, which ...
This is a list of car designers, both current and former, in Formula One. Please feel free to populate this list by adding [[Category:Formula One designers]] in the categories section of an article. About engine designers, please refer to Category:Formula One engine engineers
The BRM P25 was a Formula 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 P25's design emphasized simplicity. The car was fitted with a 2.5-litre straight-4 engine, producing some 275 horsepower.
The results were presented to Colin Chapman, who gave the team free rein to come up with an F1 chassis design. [4] After a round of design sketches and engineering drawings and further work in the wind tunnel at Imperial College, the car was put into production. Five examples were built, codenamed John Player Special Mk.
The Mercedes-Benz W196 (sometimes written as the Mercedes-Benz W 196 R [1]) was a Formula One racing car produced by Mercedes-Benz for the 1954 and 1955 F1 seasons. Successor to the W194, in the hands of Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss it won 9 of 12 races entered and captured the only two world championships in which it competed.
At the 2006 German Grand Prix, both cars were disqualified for running flexible wings that failed FIA testing. [10] The following race in Hungary was the M16's best results - Monteiro and Albers finishing 9th and 10th respectively. In September, the Midland team was sold by Alex Shnaider to Dutch car manufacturer Spyker Cars just before the ...