Cooper T86

The Cooper T86 was a Formula 1 racing car, the British Formula 1 team Cooper 1967 and 1968 began.

In 1967, Cooper with the T86 from the middle of the season, a new race car to replace the completely outdated T81. The T86 was a dedicated effort to build a lightweight formula 1 race car. The car was extremely light, very low and narrower than its predecessor. However, the Maserati engine was the real problem of Cooper. The engine was much too heavy and needed too much fuel. The lightweight construction trailer was used only four times in 1967 and fell off every time.

In 1968, facing the charge of Cooper at BRM in order to replace the unloved V- 12 engine of Maserati can. After the experiment with the lightweight T86 had failed, the T86B again had a monocoque full length. The 12- cylinder engine of B.R.M. Although lighter than the Maserati engine, but the unit was the weakest engine of the season 1968. The car got enhanced front brakes and the mid- season front and rear wings.

The Cooper team was not pursued regardless of the motor inferiority, the entire season of happiness. Ludovico Scarfiotti, who joined from Ferrari to Cooper, crashed at hill climb on the Roßfeldhöhenringstraße with a Porsche 909 Spyder Mountain fatal. Brian Redman fell after a serious accident at the Grand Prix of Belgium almost the entire season off. Vic Elford and Lucien Bianchi, who were hired as a replacement pilot, but the gap was filled with flying colors. Both the race in both Spain and Monaco, the two each reached the third and fourth overall.

At the end of the 1968 season, there was the sixth rank the last placement for the British team in the constructors' championship of Formula 1

A T86B was converted for Formula 5000 and sold to a private person, the vehicle began in 1969. A T86C with Alfa Romeo engine was never quite finished. Vic Elford came in 1969 with a private T86 in Monaco once again into the vicinity of scoring points when he finished seventh. Thus, in the formula, the era of Cooper ended 1

Literature and sources

• David Hodges: Racing A- Z after 1945 motor -Verlag, Stuttgart 1994, ISBN 3-613-01477-7, page 68.