British Racing Motors - The Reawakening

My other passion (hence my avatar):

From my home town (Bourne, Lincolnshire), Hall & Hall have built a completely new chassis and engine of the original 1950's BRM v16 (that's a supercharged 1.5 litre v16), to be launched at the Goodwood Revival, next weekend.

Way too complex a design, so massively unreliable at the time, but always regarded as one of the best sounding F1 engines ever. I always wondered if, with modern materials and engineering, it could be made more reliable without impacting the essence of the original.

Homepage - British Racing Motors

This video features Dick Salmon, who happens to be my mother's next door neighbour (and mine, before I left home in 1993!).

 

When historic F1 and railway infrastructure come together!

 

At 2.16 you can see Raymond Mays' house, which still stands. That house backs onto the former BRM workshops, now the home of Golding, Young and Mawer, a Lincolnshire firm of auctioneers. It is also adjacent to the home of the Delaine Buses depot and heritage collection.