Cooper T43

The Cooper T43 was a Formula 2 racing car, built in 1957 by the British Motor Sport Team Cooper.

The Cooper T43 Cooper T41 followed the MKII in the Formula 2 version 1957. The car had an enlarged and slightly revised chassis. The regular drive - a first car had a FWB engine - was the Climax FPF engine with double camshaft and 150 hp.

Rob Walker got the first T43 with a larger fuel tank delivered. The Scottish team was the first racing team that began with a Cooper Climax engine in the World Cup. In retrospect, it turned out that this first -Cooper Climax was a converted T41 MKII Formula 2, since Jack Brabham had the original Walker - car completely destroyed during practice for the Monaco Grand Prix. In the race, Brabham was even briefly in the third place, in the end he crossed the finish line in seventh.

The big moment for Cooper and the T43 hit in the season opener in 1958 in Argentina, as Stirling Moss drove the race car for the first victory for the British team in the World Cup. That historic triumph - it was the first Grand Prix victory since 1950, which was achieved with a mid-engine car - outshone the success that could be achieved with the little race car during the season. So Brabham won the Grand Prix of New Zealand also on a T43. Still in the same season was the successor model, the Cooper T45, at the racetracks.