British Racing Motors (BRM)

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Jo Siffert
7 July 1936
24 October 1971

Jo Siffert died driving BRM P160/02 at the Rothmans World Championship Victory Race, Brands Hatch.

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Chris Flack is writing a biography of Spencer, his late father.

Chris is looking for any information, photographs or results from his father's racing events. If you can help, in the first instance contact Chris via e-mail at christopherflack@btinternet.com

British Racing Motors (or BRM as it was more widely known) was created to put the UK at the forefront of the Grand Prix world as the FIA Formula One Championship became the top level of motor racing in 1950.

BRM had always been "the English Ferrari" in its aim to produce the chassis, engine and gearbox to its own design and within its own workshops. Ferrari have major industrial backing, the likes of Lotus & McLaren have taken advantage of a wide choice of outside suppliers but BRM eventually succumbed to high ideals and low resources.

Spencer Flack
17 June 1942
23 February 2002

Spencer Flack died driving BRM P258 at the Shannon's Phillip Island Classic , Phillip Island, Australia

The team was soon under the control of Alfred Owen of the Rubery Owen industrial empire based at Darlaston in the Black Country of England. It took years to bring the cars from their base at Bourne, Lincolnshire to the starting grid and a further decade to reach a fully competitive level, leading to the World Championship success of 1962.

Williams, McLaren & Ferrari may have won more races but surely no team struggled harder or went through more heartache to gain success.

The team remained a championship chasing concern during the mid sixties and a regular race winner into the early seventies. The team then started its slide out of the F1 top rank and then out of GP racing altogether. Rubery Owen even decided to sell its BRM collection of racing cars during the Motor Show at Earl's Court, London, in October 1981.

Folkingham airfield was used as a testing track from the BRM's official launch on 15th December 1949. The site was also used for early workshops. Engine testing continued on at the site. Later a further dyno testing house was added and was used for commercial projects and the CanAm Chevrolet engines – this is still in use by Hall & Hall for engine work. Hall & Hall (Rick and son Rob) currently have their restoration centre there in place of the earlier Hall & Fowler concern. Former BRM workers Rick Hall and Rob Fowler set up on their own after the 1977 season. In 1981, when BRM finally closed, the pair took over the engine test house on the airfield which are now part of their more modern workshops.

Spalding Road, Bourne was the main BRM factory having 100 employees by 1965. The site was later sold to Delaine Buses.

New workshops were erected in 1960 on the site of the Bourne gas works for the BRMs to be prepared for racing. It was sold and is now an auction salesroom.

Graham Hill Way, an industrial estate off Cherryholt Road, Bourne, is named in memory of BRM's World Champion.

Pilbeam Racing Designs, had it's Bourne factory opened in 1997 by Graham Hill's widow Bette.