Formula One's Power Triangle
Gordon Murray, arguably the most free-thinking of all car designers, built his Formula One career upon a single foundation: the strength of triangles. All cars designed and built by Murray for his boss Bernie Ecclestone, then owner of Brabham, relied upon three-sided monocoques with flat floors and tapering upper surfaces.
In 1974, shortly after Ecclestone won his first Grand Prix as constructor - at, fittingly, South African Murray's home track of Kyalami - Durban-born Murray, whose Brabham designs won 22 Grands Prix, plus two Drivers' and a Constructors' Championship, elaborated on the logic behind his chosen chassis architecture.
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