The charismatic Pedro Rodriguez won his final F1 race on this day at the 1970 Belgian GP. With a new team, a new chassis and a new livery, the outfit had begun the season with higher hopes than for several years. This is the car that carried those dreams into battle, as Gordon Cruickshank remembers in today's Great Read
What happened? With a string of grand prix wins and the 1962 championship to its credit, BRM should have been building on success when 3-litre power was unleashed in 1966. But the H-16 disaster put the team in a spin, and the P126/133 barely got it back into level flight, let alone onto the podium.
As a sorry 1969 season unfolded, the situation was clear: only a major shake-up could rescue BRM. With team driver John Surtees exerting strong leadership, engineer Tony Rudd left the team and in came designer Tony Southgate, from AAR Eagle, and engine man Aubrey Woods. This is the car they built, the car which broke the team's drought.
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