The Brabham BT46B followed a similar story in Formula 1, eight years later. A development of the existing BT46, the fan car design was chosen when the team realised they couldn’t modify their ...
Even more interesting is that it will keep its fan, similar to the ’70s Brabham BT46 F1 car or Gordon Murray’s upcoming GMA T.50. The fan is used to suck air from underneath the car ...
One such is the Brabham BT46 ‘fan car’ in which Niki Lauda won the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix. An ingenious circumvention of the laws of physics – the Alfa Romeo flat-12 engine’s shape ...
The most iconic machine from this list is probably the Gordon Murray-created Brabham BT46 “fan car” Niki Lauda drove to victory at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix. “I have been collecting these ...