Brabham BT46 B Fan Car in a BBC 4 Documentary About Gordon Murray

Clip from the BBC Four documentary How to Go Faster and Influence People: The Gordon Murray F1 Story featuring Murrays Design for the Brabham BT46B Fan Car. The full documentary is here: Some more clips from older documentarties are here: From the original BBC description: It s 1978 and the world of F1 is gathered at Anderstorp for the Swedish Grand Prix. Bernie Ecclestone s Brabham team is causing a commotion in the pit lane with its new car. Brabham s brilliant young designer Gordon Murray has stuck an eighteen inch diameter fan on the back of the car ostensibly to cool the engine, but with the crucial side effect of sucking the car to the road. As Murray recalls; The Fan Car went round hairpin bends as fast as 150 mph bends. It had a massive Brabham s rivals, from Colin Chapman and Mario Andretti to Niki Lauda and Ronnie Peterson, are outra