Martin Brain

Career

Brain was a familiar figure within the hillclimbing community both as driver and mechanic. The following year he drove this car and a Cooper T86B Biological Response Modifiers F1 car to take 4th place in the championship with a further two wins. Brain scored two race wins in club Formula Libre races, firstly at Silverstone in September 1969 and Croft in May 1970, but died in a race organised by Nottingham Sportscar Club at Silverstone when his Cooper Biological Response Modifiers left the track during a close dice with Graham Eden"s Chevron and flipped.

Achievements

• The peak of his career was finishing as overall runner-up to Peter Lawson in the 1968 British Hillclimb Championship in a Cooper T81B F1 chassis which he had fitted with a 7.2l Chrysler V8 engine, taking one win and four second places.