Comments by "John D" (@johnd8892) on "NASCAR Fan Reacts to Jim Clark - F1 "The Best RacIng Driver Ever"" video.

  1. Although running his own team with lots of help from Phil Irving of Repco for engines and Ron Tsurenac for chassis design. The T in the BT model names of Brabham cars. Lots it others less well known too, but still an unmatched achievement getting such a team together.
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  2. The only Ford components of the so called Ford Cosworth DFV V8 multi championship winning engine is the 100,000 quid Cowsworth got from Ford to develop the engine and allow Ford to have naming rights to the engine. Quite a bargain as still so many think it reflected Ford engineering skills when none were involved. Similar with the Lotus Cortina with its Lotus twin cam head that gave it the big advantage but never developed
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  3. Both Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren likely got there car building and designing skills at the Cooper F1 team in 1959 to 60. The Cooper approach was to point a new driver at a set of tubing saying there is your car just build it. A great learning experience for Frank Gardiner as well. Might have flowed on to Dan Gurney when driving for Brabham cars too. Three drivers that drove F1 cars of their own company.
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  4. Yes , but his position was a unpaid water boy gofor. Not to many racing mechanic skills.
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  5. And the Repco Brabham car won the championship again in 1967 with Denny Hulme driving. Jack got a bit greedy with the new development parts kept for himself to use first. Denny kept the proven parts which proved more reliable enough for him to win the championship. Not a bad record for the Repco engine company starting with cast off Oldsmobile aluminium engine blocks that they beat all the Ferrari, Maserati, Honda, BRM and Ford engined cars in 66 and 67.
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  6.  @fugawiaus  Never saw any information that Lotus supplied half the F1 field. In 1966 and 1967 it was the Repco Brabham cars that won the championship. Definetly the Ford Cosworth DFV V8 was used by half the field or more after 1968. But only Lotus involvement was being the first and at first exclusive user of the engine. Separate company Cosworth were the brains behind that engine..
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  7. Can you ask your dad if Lotus used a special 2.5 litre version of the Cosworth DFV in the Australian Tasman series around 67,68 or 69? Or did they just use the standard 3.0 litre F1 DFV engines?
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  8. Although with the current points scoring system he would have barrowly come second. Lucky for him his many poor races were discounted in the points system.
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