As if Friday and Saturday’s magnificent BRM Formula 1 75th anniversary demonstrations - topped by Rob Hall’s mesmeric helmet cam lap in a shrieking V16 Mk1 - was not enough, Andy Willis’ Historic Gold Cup victory in P48-7 was the icing on the cake, delighting American owner Charles McCabe on Sunday.
BRM never won Oulton Park’s non-championship F1 race, first run in 1954, but Graham Hill finished third in the 1960 Gold Cup on that very chassis’ race debut, behind Stirling Moss (Lotus 18) and world champion Jack Brabham (Cooper T53). Winner of 2022’s Historic Grand Prix Cars Association opener, Willis sealed aggregate victory this time around in the mirrors of 10th-placed McCabe’s V8 P57-3, fifth in the 1961 US GP with Hill up.
