BS Fabrications
| Full name |
 BS Fabrications |
|---|---|
| Founder(s) | Bob Sparshott |
| Noted staff | Bob Sparshott |
| Noted drivers |
 Henri Pescarolo Brett Lunger Nelson Piquet |
| Formula One World Championship career | |
| Debut | 1976 Monaco Grand Prix |
| Races competed | 36 [1] |
| Drivers' Championships | 0 |
| Race victories | 0 |
| Pole positions | 0 |
| Fastest laps | 0 |
| Final race | 1978 Italian Grand Prix |
BS Fabrications was an engineering company specialising in fabrications for Formula One teams founded by Bob Sparshott, a former engineer at Lotus who had worked with Jim Clark and Graham Hill, and John 'Ace' Woodington in Luton in 1972. The company also ran a number of private F1 cars for customers in Grand Prix racing between 1972 and 1978.
They first entered F1 in 1972 under the name of Space Racing when they built a hybrid F1/F2 March for Mike Beuttler using a Formula 2 monocoque with a F1 engine. They returned under the B&S Fabrications name in 1976, with a Surtees for Henri Pescarolo, then ran a March and a McLaren for Brett Lunger in 1977 and then a pair of McLarens for Lunger and Nelson Piquet in 1978.
The team also ran in F2 and F3000, under the name BS Automotive, providing Christian Danner with his F3000 championship winner in 1985.
Sparshott still operates an engineering company associated with motorsport.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key)
| Year | Chassis | Engine(s) | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | Surtees TS19 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | BEL | MON | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | CAN | USA | JPN | ||
| Henri Pescarolo |
DNQ | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 9 | 11 | 17 | 19 | NC | ||||||||||||
| 1977 | March 761 McLaren M23 |
Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | ESP | MON | BEL | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | JPN | |
| Brett Lunger |
14 | Ret | 10 | DNS | 11 | DNQ | 13 | Ret | 10 | 9 | Ret | 10 | 11 | ||||||||
| 1978 | McLaren M23 | Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8 | G | ARG | BRA | RSA | USW | MON | BEL | ESP | SWE | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | NED | ITA | USA | CAN | ||
| Brett Lunger |
13 | Ret | 11 | DNQ | DNPQ | 7 | DNQ | DNQ | Ret | 8 | DNPQ | 8 | Ret | Ret | |||||||
| Nelson Piquet |
Ret | Ret | 9 |
References
- Autosport 16 May 1974 pp29–31
- ↑ "BS Fabrications' results at chicanef1.com". Formula One Results. Retrieved 26 February 2012.