Brabham BT23
This page is designed to act as a summary of the information being collected and discussed on a Brabham BT23 thread in the 10 Tenths Chassis Archive. The histories have been constructed by Andrew Fellowes with the extensive assistance of Allen Brown, Bryan Miller, David McKinney, Chris Townsend, Philippe Demeyer, Ted Walker, Simon Hadfield, Steve Wilkinson and others.
Brabham BT23-1 RF5 FVA 7021
1967 Jack Brabham
1968-9 Irish Racing Cars/Tommy Reid
1970 Walter Kinnear
1971 Nelson Todd, new BT23C chassis, RF/5/46
1973 Maurice Stirling
1974 W.J. Riley, Tenbury Wells for sale
1982 For Sale by Northdown Racing, Ripley, Surrey
next with Bob Wilson, Glasgow and sold to
1984 Jon Bradburn
1984-6 Andrew Fellowes to Joe Farley
1997 John Moulds & retains 2010
Brabham BT23-2 RF6 FVA 7012
1967 Denny Hulme/Frank Gardner *1
1968 Hulme for Tasman but numbered BT23-4 then to Picchio Rossi,Scuderia Picchio Rosso, Tino Brambilla/Enzo Corti
1969 Scuderia Picchio Rosso, Enzo Corti
1970 Scuderia Picchio Rosso, Vittorio Brambilla
2009 a chassis being restored may be this one.
Brabham BT23-3 RF8 FVA 7003
1967 Frank Gardner
1968 Xavier Perrot, Günther Huber
1969 Damaged at Nürburgring 27th April by a Porsche landing on top of it. (Perrot had already bought BT23C-17 earlier)
1969 Jo Siffert
1970-5 Jacques Joliat, (CH). 1971 replaced FVA with FVC
1975-6 Michel Salvi, (CH) sold to Ribager nr Mulhouse
1979 Alain Ribager
1982 Jean-Pierre Mutel (probably)
1984 Gérard Gamand found nr Valance, France with Renault engine
1989 Michel Champelovier
sold to Hollinger
2006 Thierry De Mortier
2010 Max Pearson, Australia
Brabham BT23-4 FVA 7008
1967 Winklemann for Rees *2
1968 Walter Habegger (CH)
1969 Gérard Pillon (CH)
1969 (listed as Enzo Corti at Rheims and Albi)
nothing further
Brabham BT23-5
1967 Winklemann for Rindt & van Lennep
1968 Denny Hulme, accident NZ, Feo Stanton & Alex Mildren bought the wreck,
then to Bob Britton (less suspension), to Graham Hepburn to
1981 Denis Lupton, Melbourne (who also bought the suspension, by then with Les Sargent)
1983 George Goodare, Sydney
2008 Jean-Marie Muller, France
Brabham BT23-6 FVA 7027
1967 Whitley Racing Services for Robin Widdows
sold at the end of the 1967 season to Mitsubishi Motors and shipped to Japan. May have been used by Kouichi Satou in 1973 and Masaru Tanaka in 1975
Brabham BT23-7
1967 Gerhard Mitter
1968 Werner Lindermann
1969 Werner Lindermann/Montan Racing
1970 Montan Racing/ Helmut Gall, last seen at Hockenheim on April 12th, then destroyed?
nothing further
Brabham BT23-8 Alfa
1967 Nanni Galli
1968 Giorgio Pianta, Enrico Pinto
1969 Claudio Francisci, Novamotor, 3rd Italian F3 Championship
1972 Possibly for sale in Autosprint in May and/or raced in F3 in Italy
1990 reported in Italy
2002 reported as sold.
2010 Understood to be undergoing restoration
Brabham BT23-9
1967 David Bridges for Brian Redman
1969 Etienne Vigoureux, Rouen F3
nothing further
*1 BT23-4 reported as scratched in chassis
*2 Brabham BT23-4 may have been given the wrong chassis plate on rebuild, see BT23-2
