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BRABHAM DELIVERY, SPEED RECORD RULES, BENTLEY RETIRES V8

ECONOMIC AND Covid issues aside, Brabham Automotive says it has delivered its first BT62 customer car, a major milestone in an effort that has weathered a gestation period of several years.

Led by David Brabham, the effort is concentrated around the one model for the time being, very much a track-focussed car that stacks up as something that might comfortably lead a GT3 pack, in its current form.

That form is a under1000kg package that is said to produce 12ookg of downforce at 270km/h.

It’s powered by a bespoke normally aspirated V8, based on a Ford block and claiming 522kW (700hp). It drives through a sixspeed sequential Hollinger transmission.

The company says, “The BT62 is limited to seventy vehicles, with each vehicle meticulously hand-built to order, enhancing the exclusivity for customers.

“The customer engagement process is a fundamental pillar of Brabham’s philosophy and go-to-market ethos, which includes opportunities for customers to visit the facility to fit componentry and parts to their cars during the build process.

”This level of customer engagement is consistent with how Sir Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac used to engage with customers in the 1960s when Brabham was the largest manufacturer of track cars in the world, producing over 500 hundred vehicles in that period.”

Long-term, the firm plans to produce road cars. See Brabhamautomotive.com.

See whichcar.com.au for a drive impression from MOTOR magazine.