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Racing car model
BRM P48
Category
Formula One
Constructor
British Racing Motors
Designer(s)
Stewart Tresilian
Predecessor
P25
Successor
P57 Climax
Technical specifications[1]
Chassis
Steel ladder frame
Suspension (front)
double wishbones, coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
Suspension (rear)
double wishbones, coil springs over dampers, anti-roll bar
Wheelbase
90 in (228.6 cm)
Engine
British Racing Motors 25 2,491 cc (152.0 cu in) S4 N/A, rear-mounted.
Transmission
British Racing Motors 4-speed transverse shaft. ZF differential.
Weight
1,102 lb (499.9 kg) (Unladen)
Fuel
Petrol/alcohol mix.
Tyres
Dunlop.
Competition history
Notable entrants
Owen Racing Organisation
Notable drivers
Graham Hill Harry Schell Joakim Bonnier Dan Gurney
Debut
1960 Monaco Grand Prix
Races
Wins
Poles
F/Laps
7
0
0
1
The BRM P48 was a Formula One racing car raced in 1960. It was BRM's first rear-engined car. With rear-engined cars in the ascendancy, BRM hastily reworked the front-engined, now five-year-old P25. The car proved to be slow and unreliable, and was replaced by the P48/57 the following year.
^Ménard, Pierre (2000). The Great Encyclopedia of Formula One. London, England: Constable & Robinson Ltd. p. 432. ISBN 1-84119-259-7.
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Monaco Grand Prix, retiring with a halfshaft failure. In 1960, Hill joined BRM, he won also in that year on 8 May 1960 the Targa Florio in the class Sports...
Club of Australia. The race was won by American driver Dan Gurney in a BRMP48. Official Programme, International Motor Race Meeting, Ballarat Air Strip...
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Formula One season Drivers' Champion: Graham Hill International Cup Champion: BRM Previous 1961 Next 1963 Races by country Races by venue The 1962 Formula...
written off. His greatest achievement in Formula One was taking victory for BRM in the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix at Zandvoort, when the notoriously unreliable...
fastest lap and finished second in another T53. Graham Hill was third in a BRMP48. The event was held on the same day as the 1961 Pau Grand Prix, which compromised...
set fastest lap. John Surtees in a similar Cooper and Graham Hill in a BRMP48 were second and third, Surtees having started from pole position. "XXIII...
behind the wheel of a factory-prepared BRM. At the Dutch Grand Prix, at Zandvoort, a brake system failure on the BRM caused the most serious accident of...
field. Jim Clark in a Lotus 18-Climax was second and Graham Hill in a BRMP48 was third. Bruce McLaren in another T53 set fastest lap and finished fourth...
of Stroud - of which Lewis was now also a director. He bought a 1961/62 BRM V8 to race, but the car was unsatisfactory and eventually went back to the...
in the works Cooper-Climax by just 4.4 seconds from Graham Hill in the BRMP48, after the gearbox of Jim Clark's Lotus expired after leading 22 laps of...
Ginther switched to the British-based BRM team to race alongside Graham Hill. The highlight of his time at BRM was finishing equal-second (with Hill)...
in February 1961, which was attended by some European Formula One teams. BRM factory drivers Dan Gurney and Graham Hill finished first and second in the...
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Global Information
Graham Hill
Harry Schell 
Joakim Bonnier