Martin Brain

Martin Brain was a British racing driver known for his exploits in British hillclimbs and club racing.

Brain was a familiar figure within the hillclimbing community both as driver and mechanic. The peak of his career was finishing as overall runner-up to Peter Lawson in the 1968 British Hillclimb Championship in a Cooper T81B F1 chassis which he had fitted with a 7.2l Chrysler V8 engine, taking one win and four second places.[1] The following year he drove this car and a Cooper T86B BRM F1 car to take 4th place in the championship with a further two wins.[2] Brain scored two race wins in club Formula Libre races, firstly at Silverstone in September 1969 and Croft in May 1970,[3] but died in a race organised by Nottingham Sportscar Club at Silverstone when his Cooper BRM left the track during a close dice with Graham Eden's Chevron and flipped.[4]

  1. ↑ http://www.oldracingcars.com/f1/car.php?CarID=T81B/1-67
  2. ↑ http://www.oldracingcars.com/f1/car.php?CarID=T86B/1-68
  3. ↑ http://jpgleize.perso.neuf.fr/gp/clumod.htm
  4. ↑ http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=4203
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