the BRM Type 15 was unveiled at the beginning of the 1950s. The Type 15 name was in reference to the vehicle's 1.5L V16 engine. That may seem small, but this supercharged engine was able to exceed ...

Sadly, the reliability of the V16 engine was simply not good enough, eventually leading to one BRM’s driver at the time, Stirling Moss, writing to Mays and leaving his post until the engine’s ...

That engine helped Bernd Rosemeyer win that year's European Driving Championship. In 1951, during the second year of Formula 1 racing, British Racing Motors (BRM) built the V16-powered P15 ...