Thread: Brabham BT16
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Old 10 Jun 2010, 12:33 (Ref:2708211)   #62
Chris Townsend
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Motoring News 23.1.69 has an interview based feature on Mohr. It says he bought Kurt Ahrens Brabham for 1966, sharing the car with Dieter Bonhorst.
We know that Ahrens had a BT16 [F2.3.65] in 1965 through chassis observations by F1 Register.

The feature goes on to say that he used this car in the 1967 Temporada, then in Italy from April 67 onwards, fitted with a Novamotor.
For 1968 the feature continues that Mohr was promised a works de Sanctis, but it never materialised so he went back to the BT16 [and it says BT16] The car eventually goes to Gagliardi in July 68, when Motoring News 18.7.68 describes his BT16 as "ex Mohr" [and this car is regularly called a BT16]

However, MN 19.1.67 p.2 says that Mohr bought Dubler's BT15. [F3.9.65] with the pair teaming up as Zurich Auto Racing Partnership.
Dubler then buys a second BT15 [Ghezzi's F3.17.65] and keeps this as a rental car - it was probably Beat Fehr's car at Casserta in 1967.

I suggest that the Mohr/Dubler/Bonhorst set up has three cars in 1966, two 1965 built BT15s and the Ahrens BT16, with Bonhorst, mostly, using the ex F2 car.



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