BS Fabrications

BS Fabrications was a British supplier to the race car industry. The company was founded by Bob savings Hott, a former engineer at Lotus, who had worked with Jim Clark and Graham Hill. BS Fabrications entertained in the 1970s and 1980s, a private racing team, in the Formula 1 World Championship races as well - was launched in Formula 2 and Formula 3000 - now under the name BS Automotive. In Formula 1, BS Fabrications operated as so-called customer team, he set a chassis from other manufacturers under their own name. An attempt to construct my own race car for the 1981 Formula 1 season, failed for financial reasons.

BS Fabrications in Formula 1

1976

In the Formula 1 1976 season the team Norev Racing with BS Fabrications stepped up to nine races of the Grand Prix of Monaco on to the U.S. Grand Prix East. The team reported a Surtees TS19; Henri Pescarolo driver was. At seven races, Pescarolo could qualify; his best grid position was the position 21 at the Grand Prix of Canada. Five times Pescarolo finished the race; his best finish was ninth place at the Grand Prix of Austria. Here he was lapped twice.

1977

1977 BS Fabrications joined with Brett Lunger in the Formula 1 World Championship. The team was sometimes referred to with reference to a sponsor as Chesterfield Racing; the organization was, however, always have in the workshop of BS Fabrications. The South American race early in the season, the team left out. The first announcement was made for the Grand Prix of South Africa. Sat here and in the following two races BS Fabrications an a March 761 Cosworth DFV engine with. In South Africa Lunger was Fourteenth and Tenth in Spain. In Long Beach, he collided with Carlos Reutemann and then fell out. From the Belgian Grand Prix, the team replaced the old March by an ( equally old ) used McLaren M23. With it Lunger could qualify with one exception regularly for the last third of the starter box. His best race result was the ninth place at the Grand Prix of the Netherlands.

1978

In the Formula 1 season 1978 BS Fabrications continued commitment continues as a customer team. The team presented throughout the season ( with the exception of the North American race in the fall ) a car for Brett Lunger ready; in late summer next to a second car for Nelson Piquet was used.

Lunger drove the McLaren M23 used in the previous year in the first four races of the year; from the Monaco Grand Prix, he moved to a younger McLaren M26. The new car did not increase the competitiveness of the team. In ten experiments Lunger missed with the M26 four times the qualification. In the six races to which he qualified, however, he was able to achieve promising results in part: The Belgian Grand Prix he finished seventh, and at Brands Hatch, as well as in Zeltweg he came in eighth place respectively.

For the last three European races the team of Bob savings Hott reported a second car for the Brazilian Nelson Piquet, who in 1978 was driven his first Formula 1 race for Ensign at the Grand Prix of Germany. Piquet drove each of the outdated McLaren M23 at the Grand Prix of Austria, the Netherlands and Italy for BS Fabrications. He was able to qualify for every race, but came only in Italy to the finish. Here he was ninth at 40 seconds behind the winner.

1981

After BS Fabrications had not participated in the Formula 1 World Championship in 1979 and 1980, Bob savings Hott was planning a renewed commitment in the Formula 1 season 1981. Unlike in previous years, should now be a separate, self-constructed vehicle can be used. As a motivation for this intention is expressed in the literature, to better utilize the capacity of his company. On the financing of the project, the Argentine racing driver Ricardo Zunino was involved, who had lost his cockpit in the works Brabham Héctor Rebaque during the 1980 season. Saving Hott and Zunino commissioned the engineer Nigel Stout with the design of the racing car. The project initially thrived well. End of 1980, the monocoque was built; also the body and the chassis parts were completed. Early 1981, however, withdrew Zuninos donors, so that the financing of the Grand Prix commitment was no longer guaranteed. BS Zunino and gave the project to then. Zunino drove in 1981 on the occasion of the two South American races at the beginning of 1981 for Tyrrell; then he ended his Formula 1 career.

Formula 2 and Formula 3000

In the 1980s, BS Fabrications took part in the Formula 2 and Formula 3000. The company used mostly the name BS Automotive. 1985 Christian Danner won the Formula 3000 European Championship title with the team.