Tony Brooks led home a quartet of Brits at the 1958 Belgian GP on this day, driving for Tony Vandervell's Vanwall, the first ever F1 constructors' champion. Robert Edwards looks at the man who walked out on BRM and yet scaled the top of the GP mountain in today's Great Read
It was Tony Vandervell's impatience as much as anything else which created the machine which won the inaugural Formula 1 Constructors' Championship in 1958. He had, like other notables in British engineering, been on the advisory board of the British Motor Racing Research Trust, established after the war to guide Britain to laurels in the new racing world. He had, though, weighed the venture in the balance and found it wanting.
The product of this vast committee was to be the BRM; its assumed success would pivot upon a host of little synergies which the companies involved would theoretically generate with each other – parts at cost, research facilities, and, of course, (for this was to be a racing car) testing, testing and more testing. With time and patience, the chimera would surely emerge...
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