Lucien Bianchi was sadly killed when testing OTD in 1969. His greatest day came in F1 at the wheel of beleaguered Cooper T86B, which went through several iterations. Andrew Frankel thinks the original, driven by Jochen Rindt and Vic Elford, is worth reappraisal in today's Great Read
It may not be immediately obvious what this Cooper-Maserati T86 is doing on these pages, other than going rather fast and looking gorgeous. Look at its race record and while you'll find a few interesting footnotes — Jacky Ickx drove it in only his second grand prix, it had but one significant result. Monza in 1967 will forever be remembered as the race in which John Surtees' Honda RA300 gained itself the unique distinction of winning a Formula 1 race not only on its debut but on the only lap of the only race it ever led.
By comparison, few were bothered by the green and white Cooper that Jochen Rindt brought home in fourth place that day. Cooper may by then have already been a shadow of its former self but it had still won a race that season, thanks to the superlative efforts of Pedro Rodriguez nursing a T81 with a sick gearbox to the flag in Kyalami, and Rindt wasn't even on the podium. And that's not why it's here...
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