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Old 18 Apr 2018, 14:12 (Ref:3816361)   #1
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I think I know the answer to this, but have any GM brands ever competed in Formula 1?
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 14:36 (Ref:3816365)   #2
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The Brabham Repco engine was originally a Buick all Aluminium V8.
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 15:58 (Ref:3816374)   #3
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Ahhhhh! But never any official presence? (I’m excluding the Indy 500 from 1950-60.)
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 16:03 (Ref:3816375)   #4
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Well, not according to Wiki, usual caveats apply.
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 16:06 (Ref:3816376)   #5
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Was Lamborghini under Chrysler control during its ill-fated entry? (I’m thinking the Big Three: obviously Ford went in hard with the DFV and beyond.)
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 16:14 (Ref:3816377)   #6
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Possibly but it was still not branded GM.
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 16:16 (Ref:3816378)   #7
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No, Chrysler were never part of GM. Big Three: GM, Ford, Chrysler (later DaimlerChrysler).
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 16:27 (Ref:3816381)   #8
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Sorry I misread you.
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Old 18 Apr 2018, 16:37 (Ref:3816383)   #9
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Easily done! My prose is not always as limpid as it could be.
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Old 19 Apr 2018, 00:45 (Ref:3816437)   #10
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According to a search on the interwebs: Nope. GM has never done anything in the realm of F1
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Old 19 Apr 2018, 06:50 (Ref:3816457)   #11
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The isuzu v12 engine that Lotus tried in '91. Don't think GM owned isuzu at the time?
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Old 19 Apr 2018, 11:55 (Ref:3816482)   #12
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Wasn't Lotus owned by GM around the time of the Isuzu project?
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Old 19 Apr 2018, 12:13 (Ref:3816488)   #13
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Wasn't Lotus owned by GM around the time of the Isuzu project?
Isuzu might have been, not sure about Lotus. But certainly what we’re saying is that GM has never had any *major* involvement in F1.
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Old 20 Apr 2018, 15:10 (Ref:3816664)   #14
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You’re probably thinking of the Opel/Vauxhall Lotus series that ran in the 90s.

I can’t think of any GM brands in F1 either
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Old 20 Apr 2018, 15:40 (Ref:3816670)   #15
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didnt GM own Lotus for a bit in the 80s?

but i guess the race team was always separate.
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Old 20 Apr 2018, 21:30 (Ref:3816695)   #16
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They owned Lotus Cars at one time, but never Team Lotus. (Team Lotus was always in Chapman hands, never a part of the public limited company.)
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Old 21 Apr 2018, 10:12 (Ref:3816773)   #18
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Yes but they were also F5000 engines.
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Old 21 Apr 2018, 19:19 (Ref:3816825)   #19
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The Brabham Repco engine was originally a Buick all Aluminium V8.
Now I understand why Rikky von O. raced for them in 1974
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When Jose Froilan Gonzalez was paid by Maranello with a Ferrari car to Argentina, he fitted it with a Corvette engine.
With that car he won the 1958-59 Torneo Triangular Sudamericano, his main single-seater title after F1, in an F1 car.
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