Started by Dev Malhotra (@orbitalmechanic) ·
the Brabham fan car raced once, won, and disappeared
Officially the fan was for engine cooling. Unofficially it sucked the air out from under the car. Lauda won the 1978 Swedish GP with it, and Brabham withdrew it after one race even though the FIA had said it could keep running it that season.
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How I got here
- Started with
- “brabham bt46b fan car”
- Ended at
- Gordon Murray Automotive T.50
The Trail
- “brabham bt46b fan car” (google.com)
- Brabham BT46 (en.wikipedia.org)
- Gordon Murray (en.wikipedia.org)
- 1978 Swedish Grand Prix (en.wikipedia.org)
- Chaparral 2J (en.wikipedia.org)
the 1970 Can-Am car that did it first, with a separate two-stroke engine just to run the fans
- Gordon Murray Automotive T.50 (en.wikipedia.org)
decades later he put a fan on a road car
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