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The Brabham BT46 is a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team, owned by Bernie Ecclestone, for the 1978 Formula One season.The car featured several radical design elements, one of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil radiators.
(original named MRD, later Brabham BT1) 1961 1 BT2: Formula Junior: 1962 11 BT3: Formula One: 1962 1 BT4: Tasman Formula: 1962 4 BT5: Sports racing 1963 2 BT6 Formula Junior: 1963 20 BT7: Formula One: 1963 2 BT7A: Tasman Formula: 1963 2 BT8: Sports racing 1964–66 12 BT9 Formula Three: 1964 13 BT10: Formula Two: 1964 17 BT11: Formula One: 1964 ...
The 1976 and 1977 seasons saw Brabham fall towards the back of the field again, before winning two races again in the 1978 season when Ecclestone signed the Austrian double world champion Niki Lauda, intrigued by Murray's radical BT46 design. The Brabham-Alfa era ended in 1979, the team's first season with the up-and-coming young Brazilian ...
The 1978 South African Grand Prix (formally the XXIV Citizen and Asseng Grand Prix of South Africa) was a Formula One motor race held on 4 March 1978 at Kyalami. It was the third round of the 1978 Formula One season and the 300th World Championship Grand Prix held since the championship began in 1950 .
The Brabham BT46 was a Formula One racing car, designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team, owned by Bernie Ecclestone, for the 1978 Formula One season.The car featured several radical design elements, the most obvious of which was the use of flat panel heat exchangers on the bodywork of the car to replace conventional water and oil radiators.
The Brabham BT45 was a Formula One car designed by South African ... The BT45C competed in two Grands Prix in 1978, before the arrival of the BT46. With this latest ...
Ian Gordon Murray CBE (born 18 June 1946), [1] is a successful and influential South African-British [2] former (Formula One) race-car designer, renowned firstly as lead designer for both the Brabham and McLaren Formula 1 racing teams, during 1969–1986 and 1987–1991 respectively, then as designer of high-end, high-performance sports cars and a variety of other innovative automotive projects.
The radical 1978 Brabham BT46B, which was known as the "Fan Car" due to its large fan was powered by an Alfa Romeo engine. In 1976, Bernie Ecclestone did a deal for the Brabham Formula One team to use Alfa Romeo engines based on their new flat-12 sports car unit designed by Carlo Chiti.