BRM P153

The BRM P153, also known as B.R.M. P153 designated, was a Formula 1 racing car, built and used from 1970 to 1972 by British Formula 1 team British Racing Motors.

BRM, the world champion team of 1962, 1969 brought the designer Tony Southgate to build a new car. Southgate already modified the P139 before he went to the designs for the P153. The car had a simple and lightweight monocoque bathtub-shaped, the hallmark for this vehicle and its successor, the P160 was. In the two beaded edges, the left and right of the cockpit, the tanks were located. The suspension was conventional, only the brakes were transferred to all four wheels to the outside, for 1970 an unusual idea (now standard). The P153 was the first BRM, of (the color of British racing teams ) did not appear in green, but in the finish of the sponsor Yardley.

The heavy, but powerful V12 engine has been thoroughly redesigned to get closer to the V8 engines from Cosworth. The car was handy, easy to tune and was generally considered a good throw.

Pedro Rodríguez won so the 1970 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa- Francorchamps and scored the first Grand Prix victory for BRM since Jackie Stewart's success in 1966 in Monaco. Although 1971 has followed the P160, the P153 has been further revised and for each third and fourth riders in the team (BRM sat four times a works car ) at the start brought. As P153B he ran even in 1972, but had the suspension of the new P160.