[allenbrown]

<expletive deleted>! I just found B40 stuff on the B34-39 thread. This dates from 3 Mar 2003.

Chris's list is much better than mine:

Originally Posted by Chris Townsend

... here are Chevron B40 ... summaries to spark further debate:

Chassis 1 Hart 420R: 1977: Works/Ardmore/ICI: Ray Mallock/Patrick Tambay/Guy Edwards/Brian Henton
Chassis 2-BMW M12: 1977: Trivatello: Riccardo Patrese [taken to Japanese GP late season and won] 1978: F1R say Roloil: Sandro Cinotti [I wonder why didn’t the car stay in Japan?
Chassis 3-Chrysler: 1977: ROC : Michel Pignard
Chassis 4-Chrysler: 1977: ROC: Jean-Pierre Jaussaud; 1978: Sc. Everest [BMW engine]: Gianfranco Brancatelli/Giancarlo Martini/Miguel-Angel Guerra/Clay Regazzoni
Chassis 5-Hart 420R: Opert: Wink Bancroft
Chassis 6-Hart 420R: Opert: Keijo Rosberg; 1978: Opert: Alain Prost
Chassis 7-BMW M12: 1977: Trivatello: Lamberto Leoni; 1978: Sc. Everest [Ferrari engine]: Elio de Angelis
Chassis 8-Hart 420R: 1977: Opert: Jacques Laffite/Gregg Young; unknown to 1980 then Ron Harper
Chassis 9-Nissan: Probably Kojima: Masahiro Hasemi [BMW engine late season]; 1979: Tomy Racing for Hasemi
Chassis 10-BMW M12: Probably Keiji Matsumoto; 1978 maybe used by Fumiyasi Satoh for F.Pacific
Chassis 11 Not built
Chassis 12- BMW: Probably for Tetsu Ikuzawa, retained 1979
Chassis 14-BMW: KWS Autotechnik: Klaus Ludwig; 1978: KWS: Rudi Deutsch (perhaps rented to Helmut Bross for Wolfgang Locher at Nurburgring F2) then sold to Iain McLaren [appears Mallory 30.7 G8]. For sale as chassis 14 A.S. 8.3.79 in UK, '5 races from new' but a subsequent also says it's ex Iain McLaren; See also MN 'Bob Leckie, Chevron B40, the ex Iain McLaren car' 26.7.79 p.9

Problem cars
1979: Kojima: Masahiro Hasemi [FPac]
Matusmoto and Satoh probably run in the same team with a B40-BMW which may also be swapped for a Nissan engine for Pacific races, or there is another B40 with a Toyota in the team for 1978 onwards.
1979: Harada: Noritake Takahara
1979: Speed Star: Masao Segawa
1979: Nico Nicole (Japan)
1979: Vicic: Patrese spare JAF GP
1979: Phoenix: Brian Henton [Suzuka 5.3; Lamberto Leoni Fuji 3.5; Ghinzani Suzuka 21.5; Masami Kuwashima [Suzuka 2.7]
1979: Phoenix: Larry Perkins [Fuji 3.5; Gabbiani Suzuka 21.5; Naohiro Fujita [Suzuka 2.7]Patrick Gaillard
Phoenix had two cars in 79 and there's no certainty that the Gabbiani car wasn't that used by Henton etc.
BMW engine [debut 20.8.78 Salzburgring] Werner Ruckelshausen
Albert Poon [F. Pacific] probably a B39
1979: Paul Gibson
1980: Kazuyoshi Hoshino [Suzuka FPac: Nissan engine]
1980: Fumio Moto [Suzuka FPac: Nissan engine]
1980: Fumiyasi Sato [Suzuka FPac: Toyota engine]

I'm not comfortable with the identification of 03, 04 and 07. In F1R, 03 and 07 had dots after them whereas 04 just doesn't look right.

We then had this on 5 March

Originally Posted by Teretonga

Chris
There was a B40 rolling chassis that has just been sold in Japan, alledgedly chassis 07, formerly Nissan powered and originally driven by Masahiro Hasemi. I didn't get the buyers name. You had him down for 09 but the seller's say 07.

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Originally Posted by Chris Townsend

Teretonga

Thanks for that. My only source for B40 no. 7 as a European car at the start of its life is F1R, who are unreliable on F2 in that period. So, it could be that 7 was the original Hasemi car. However, equally possible is that the car eventually made its way to Japan after a couple of seasons in Europe and became the basis for Hasemi's B40 in F. Pacific racing, meaning that Hasemi used two different B40s at different times.

My attribution of chassis 9 to Hasemi as the Kojima car is based on there being three vacant numbers in the build series [ie cars not raced in Europe] and three Japanese B40s from new. Kojima's was the first to appear, hence the first vacant number. I'll do some more digging!

Chris

Allen