Brabham BT60


The Brabham BT60 was the final series of Formula One racing cars built for the Brabham Formula One motor racing team. Designed by Sergio Rinland, they raced in the 1991 and 1992 Formula One World Championships. The car brought to a close Brabham's 30 years of construction of purpose-built racing cars, which began with Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac and the Brabham BT1 Formula Junior design in 1961.

BT60Y

The first car, the BT60Y, was powered by the Yamaha OX99 V12 engine. It was driven by Martin Brundle, who was returning to Brabham and Formula One again after driving for Jaguar in the 1990 World Sportscar Championship. The team's second car was driven by Formula One rookie Mark Blundell.
Brabham only scored three points in 1991, with one 5th-place for Brundle, and Blundell scoring one 6th-place finish. The team finished 10th in the Constructors' Championship.

BT60B

For the 1992 Formula One season the team used a modified version of the car, dubbed the BT60B, which was powered by the Judd GV V10 engine. The cars were driven by Eric van de Poele from Belgium and Italian rookie Giovanna Amati. Part way through the year Amati was replaced by another Formula One rookie, future World Drivers' Champion Damon Hill. The BT60B was the last Formula One car produced by Brabham.
The season was a complete disaster for the once great Brabham team. After van de Poele qualified 26th and last and finished 13th at the opening race in South Africa, neither car qualified for a race until round nine, the 1992 British Grand Prix, where Hill qualified 26th.
Two races later the team had its last ever race meeting in Formula One, at the Hungarian Grand Prix, where Hill gave the team its highest finish of the season finishing 11th, some four laps down on race winner Ayrton Senna.

Complete Formula One results

YearEntrantChassisEngineTyresDrivers12345678910111213141516PointsWCC
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60YYamaha OX99
V12		USABRASMRMONCANMEXFRAGBRGERHUNBELITAPORESPJPNAUS310th
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60YYamaha OX99
V12		Martin Brundle11DSQRetRetRetRet11Ret91312105DNQ310th
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60YYamaha OX99
V12		Mark Blundell8RetDNQRetRetRet12Ret612RetRetDNPQ17310th
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60BJudd GV
V10		RSAMEXBRAESPSMRMONCANFRAGBRGERHUNBELITAPORJPNAUS0NC
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60BJudd GV
V10		Eric van de Poele13DNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ0NC
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60BJudd GV
V10		Giovanna AmatiDNQDNQDNQ0NC
Motor Racing DevelopmentsBT60BJudd GV
V10		Damon HillDNQDNQDNQDNQDNQ16DNQ110NC