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Brabham BT49

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The Brabham BT49 was a Formula One racing car designed by the South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team. It competed in the 1979 to 1982 Formula One World Championships, and Nelson Piquet used it to win his first World Championship in 1981. It was designed in 1979 at short notice as a replacement for the Alfa Romeo-engined BT48, after Bernie Ecclestone ended the team's relationship with Alfa Romeo, and was created in only six weeks from elements of the BT48 chassis with the widely used Cosworth DFV engine. Its monocoque is aluminium alloy and carbon fibre composite, and it used controversial hydropneumatic suspension and water-cooled brakes at different times. It took seven wins and six poles over four seasons. Seventeen were built and most survive today, some in historic motorsport.

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Year
1979 1
Status
Surviving 1
Units Built
17 1
Comparison
Body Style
Racing car 1
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The Brabham BT49 is a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team.

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  • Lead, body style
    The Brabham BT49 is a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team.
  • Lead, year
    The BT49 competed in the 1979 to 1982 Formula One World Championships
  • Production, units built
    Seventeen were eventually built
  • Survival
    most of which survive today
  • Lead, maker
    The Brabham BT49 is a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team.
  • Of Make: Brabham, Lead
    The Brabham BT49 is a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team.
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was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team
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