BRM

"British Racing Motors"

H-16, moteur d'exeption, audace technique hors norme.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• BRM
• H16
• Lotus

[McLarenMercedes]

This video is wrong.

First of all the sound comes from a BRM P15 with a V16. It was front engined and raced in 1951.

The rear engined BRM with a H16 did NOT sound like this, not to mention it was a horrible engine even Jackie Stewart (3 time F1 champion) told was better used as a ship's anchor than as a racing engine.

Jim Clark was the only one to win a race with the H16 engine, in the US Grand Prix in 1966, with the Lotus-BRM 43

[superingo75]

now i´ve got wet eyes and pants....

[TheDavy666]

V16..

[justdoitasshole]

2:12 made my children cry and killed my parrot.

[ruubjumper126]

@McLarenMercedes exactly the Ford DFV ruled F1, BRM was just too heavy!

[81broncoman]

Damn, not 1963, it was 1966, i was being dense.

[81broncoman]

Now you can go up to the snotty F1 types and say "did you know Oldsmobile once won the F1 world championship? LOLOLOL they give you this look that's priceless. Like heresy to suggest that the retiree mobile manufacturer once took it to Lotus, albeit in a round-about way.

[81broncoman]

These funny engines, V and H-16 and so on, were actually beaten in 1963 by the Repco Oldsmobile engine, a two-valve V-8.

[Vollhirni]

The Sounds for this Video are taken from the book "Into the Red" By Nick Mason. He included a CD with sounds of some of his beloved racecars, among them these recordings. It's a 1954 BRM V16 MKII Front engine racecar, as correctly stated above. Give the man some credit for the recordings at least, man.

[Grunzaa]

Amazing sound, closest thing I could compare this too would be the sound of Lola Formula 5000's but even then I bet they come nothing close to these monsters in real life.

[identiticrisis]

@justforever96 I'm fairly sure it has the same mirrored cross-plane crank used in most straight eights. Compare the straight 8 from an Alfa Romeo 8C or 159 Alfetta (cross-plane) with that from the Bugatti Type 35 (flat-plane). The latter sounds similar to an inline four; this V16 doesn't :)

The early H16s had flat-planes, and cylinders in opposite banks (on the same crank) would fire simultaneously. Later, proper flat-eight cranks, with throws set at 90° (L) instead of 180° (|), were used.