BRM: The Saga of British Racing Motors: Volume 3: Monocoque V8 Cars 1963-1969
by Doug Nye, Tony Rudd
Category: Transportation

The extraordinary Saga of the BRM Formula 1 racing team has previously been related in exhaustive detail in the first two Volumes of the author’s remarkable history of this legendary marque. Volume 3, details the story of the monocoque-chassised V8 Formula 1 and Tasman cars which BRM designed, manufactured and campaigned between 1963 and 1968, and which private owners continued to run for two further seasons. These were the exquisite 'Swiss watch' BRM V8s which were only narrowly defeated in the World Championships of 1964 and 1965 when they were driven by BRM's former World Champion Driver Graham Hill and his meteoric young team-mate, protege and future triple World Champion Jackie Stewart. The entire drama is related in painstaking and enormously revealing detail - warts and all - supported by contemporary internal reports, private correspondence and often hilarious first-person recollections and anecdotes from team members, including numerous team mechanics and engineers, in addition to Tony Rudd, Graham Hill and Sir Jackie Stewart. Volume 3 also embraces BRM's involvement in Formula 2, the Tasman Championship in Australasia, Le Mans and Indy projects with Chrysler Corporation and even an experimental 'Jumping Jeep' for military assessment.