A single-seater Brabham arrives in Singapore for the 1969 Singapore Grand Prix. On the nosecone reads “Costin Brabham”, not the customary Repco Brabham badge seen on other Brabham single-seaters. Many would have already heard of the name Costin, some would even have known the name from Mar-cos, the more learned might even have suspected some involvement from Cos-Worth. Only the owner and his crew had an inkling of this car’s history and now you are going to be privy to that too.
COS-WORTH
As fate would have it, the story of Cosworth has strong links with a garage in Hornsey owned by a genius by the name of Colin Chapman. The infectious enthusiasm that existed within Chapman’s garage, with its homemade kit racing cars called Lotus, was the crucible that produced many chance encounters that went on to shape motor sports in the 1960s and ’70s.
