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Racing car model
Cooper T51
Category
Formula One, Formula Two
Constructor
Cooper Car Company
Designer(s)
Owen Maddock
Predecessor
Cooper T45
Successor
Cooper T53
Technical specifications
Chassis
Steel spaceframe
Suspension (front)
Double wishbone, coil spring and damper
Suspension (rear)
Double wishbone, leaf spring and damper
Axle track
F: 55 in (1,397 mm) R: 53 in (1,346 mm)
Wheelbase
104 in (2,642 mm)
Engine
Climax, Maserati, Castellotti, Borgward or Ferrari 2.5- or 1.5-litre straight-4, naturally aspirated, rear mid, longitudinally mounted.
Transmission
Citroen, Colotti (and others) manual gearbox.
Weight
1,545 lb (701 kg)
Tyres
Dunlop
Competition history
Notable entrants
Cooper, Rob Walker Racing Team, Scuderia Centro Sud, Yeoman Credit Racing Team
Notable drivers
Stirling Moss Jack Brabham Bruce McLaren Phil Hill Wolfgang Von Trips Tony Brooks Maurice Trintignant Masten Gregory Olivier Gendebien Roy Salvadori
Debut
1959 Monaco Grand Prix
Races
Wins
Poles
F/Laps
24
5
6
6
Constructors' Championships
1 (1959)
Drivers' Championships
1 (Jack Brabham, 1959)
The Cooper T51 was a Formula One and Formula Two racing car designed by Owen Maddock and built by the Cooper Car Company for the 1959 Formula One season. The T51 earned a significant place in motor racing history when Jack Brabham drove the car to become the first driver to win the World Championship of Drivers with an engine mounted behind them, in 1959. The T51 was raced in several configurations by various entrants until 1963 and in all no less than 38 drivers were entered to drive T51s in Grand Prix races.
The CooperT51 was a Formula One and Formula Two racing car designed by Owen Maddock and built by the Cooper Car Company for the 1959 Formula One season...
The Cooper Car Company is a British car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood...
warm, dry, sunny conditions. Bristow wrecked his Yeoman Credit Racing CooperT51 at the Burnenville corner on lap twenty while fighting to stay in front...
F1 machines. The T53 was lower and slimmer than its predecessor, the CooperT51. It was equipped with a new tubular steel frame clad in aluminium panels...
Mustang Bugatti T51, a French racing car CooperT51, a British Formula One and Formula Two racing car Jiabao T51, a Chinese microvan Lester-MG T51, a British...
The race was won by Australian racer Jack Brabham driving a CooperT51 for the factory Cooper Car Company team. It was the first win for Brabham, a future...
Points also scored by the Cooper T45. ^5 Points also scored by the CooperT51. ^6 Points also scored by the CooperT51 and Cooper T53. ^7 Gerard's car designated...
a CooperT51 for privateer race team Rob Walker Racing Team. Moss finished a lap ahead of American racer Masten Gregory driving a similar CooperT51 for...
McLaren. McLaren continued to race and win in Coopers (including the New Zealand GP in 1964). McLaren left Cooper at the end of 1965, and announced his own...
kilometres. The race was won by British driver Stirling Moss driving a CooperT51 for the privateer Rob Walker Racing Team. Moss won by 46 seconds over...
Silverstone Circuit CooperT51 Practice Chris Bristow (UK) June 19, 1960 22 Belgian Grand Prix Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps CooperT51 Race Alan Stacey (UK)...
part of the Cooper Car Company's racing team, building as well as racing cars. He contributed to the design of the mid-engined cars that Cooper introduced...
He drove various cars under the banner of the ENB team, including a CooperT51, a Lotus 18 and an Emeryson. After a couple of races for the UDT Laystall...
won by fifteen seconds over Australian driver Jack Brabham driving a CooperT51, to become the first Swedish driver to win a Formula One Grand Prix. Brabham's...
in the 1961 Formula One World Championship. The team first entered a CooperT51 for Maurice Trintignant at the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix, where he finished...
Pre-1959 Frank Sytner Ferrari 250 TR D Grand Prix Pre-1960 Rod Jolley CooperT51 E Sports cars Pre-1960 Lindsay Owen-Jones Maserati Tipo 61 F Grand Prix...
Trintignant competed in the 2000 Historic Grand Prix of Monaco, reunited with the Cooper T45 he had driven to victory there in 1958. Trintignant died, aged 87, in...
a 6th in the last race of the year, this Moroccan Grand Prix. Moving to Cooper-Climax for the 1959 season alongside Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren, he...
cars, including the Formula One World Championship-winning CooperT51 and T53 models. The T51 was the first mid-engined car to win either the World Drivers'...
at the Nürburgring 1000 km and second overall at Rouen. He also raced a Cooper in Formula Two in 1960 but only achieved a sixth place at Syracuse. In 1961...
Australian Drivers' Championship. The race was won by Jack Brabham driving a CooperT51 Coventry Climax. Pole Position: Jack Brabham, 2m 33.7s Starters: 26 Finishers:...
during the race. Stirling Moss in a Porsche 718/2 was second and Roy Salvadori in a CooperT51 was third. "XI Lavant Cup 1960". Retrieved 23 March 2023....
was one of the Cooper Car Company's first customers, using winnings from competing in horse-riding events to pay the deposit on a Cooper 500 in 1948. He...
series of Coopers, with Mildren placing second in both the 1958 and 1959 Australian Drivers' Championships. A Maserati powered CooperT51 was campaigned...
won by Maurice Trintignant for the second year in a row, driving the CooperT51. Bruce McLaren finished second and Lucien Bianchi third. "F2 Register...
Global Information
Stirling Moss
Jack Brabham
Bruce McLaren
Phil Hill
Wolfgang Von Trips
Maurice Trintignant
Olivier Gendebien