Jean-Pierre Beltoise produced a truly magnificent performance in torrential conditions to score a surprisingly dominant victory in the rain-soaked 1972 Monaco Grand Prix with the Soutgate-designed BRM P160B. It would turn out to be the only triumph of the Frenchman’s Formula One career,
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The BRM Years
Last November we began an ongoing series of interviews with Tony Southgate, the English designer whose lengthy résumé includes stints with some of the most prominent teams in the sport across a variety of disciplines. In this second installment, Mike Jiggle talks with Southgate about his time with British Racing Motors, more commonly known as BRM, as it attempted to stave off its inevitable decline.
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