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The F1 car nobody wanted to drive

When the BRM P25 was good, it was very, very good - but for the first years of its life it was very, very bad. STUART CODLING describes the car that allegedly tripled Mike Hawthorn's laundry bills

British Racing Motors had been founded with the laudable intention of flying the flag at the top level of international motor racing.

But this post-war British engineering showcase spent much of its first decade mired in humiliation.

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