MG Car Club of South Australia
BRABHAM WINS ON DEBUT
From..Murray Stephenson
O
ne of our SA members, Scott Ste-
phenson, has been working with
Brabham in Adelaide since mid 2019 in
a design engineering role. It has been a
steep learning curve but a very exciting
job to be involved in the design and de-
velopment of the Brabham BT62.
On the weekend of November 9 and 10
the BT62 was run in its first two races at
the iconic Brands Hatch circuit in the
UK. The weekend consisted of practice
on Friday and then a one hour race on
Saturday night and a two hour race on
Sunday night.
The Brabham was driven by David
Brabham and Will Powell in wet and
cold conditions over the weekend. The
Brabham started on pole position for
both races and won the first race by
twenty seconds. Unfortunately an elec-
trical fault crept in for the second race
and, after one pitstop to attempt to rec-
tify the issue, it was retired after six
laps.
To win the first race for a new car is
impressive and suggests great things
to come for this car. Great to see the
Brabham name on the podium again
on both the car and driver.
Scott was part of the team taken from
Australia to work on the car for the
weekend and filled the roles of data
engineer and refueller, although we
can be sure that was not all he did.
A couple of quotes from Scott’s Face-
book page:
“Brabham's first race, Brabham's first
win! We won the hour race tonight with
David and Will putting in some great
laps in the dark and wet! Working with
such a professional driver has been
great!”
And after arriving home: “What an un-
real experience and can’t wait for the
next one”.
Scott seen kneeling at the front right of the car in the pits
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