Brabham Debuts BT62 Competition, ‘World’s Most Track-focused Hypercar’
Poised to complete in Britcar Endurance championship, BT62 is limited to 70 hand-built vehicles.
Brabham Automotive has announced that “the world’s most track-focused hypercar”–the BT62 Competition–has been built and delivered to the U.K. to compete in this year’s Britcar Endurance championship. Brabham will reportedly continue to produce both track and road variants in the coming months, delivering them across Europe, Australia, and New Zealand as logistic and operational restrictions are lifted.
The BT62 Competition has been prepared for racing and delivered to its new owner, Horsepower Racing in the U.K.
That the BT62 has been completed and delivered during the COVID-19 pandemic is an outcome made possible by the Brabham team’s planning, and commitment to maintaining operations across its vertically integrated capabilities in a safe manner along with a strong engagement with suppliers on continuity planning.
The BT62 is limited to 70 vehicles, with each vehicle meticulously hand-built to order.
The customer engagement process is a fundamental pillar of Brabham’s philosophy and go-to-market ethos, which includes opportunities for customers to visit the facility to fit componentry and parts to their cars during the build process. This level of customer engagement is consistent with how Sir Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac used to engage with customers in the 1960s when Brabham was the largest manufacturer of track cars in the world, producing over 500 hundred vehicles in that period.
The Brabham team, which is growing in line with production commitments and the company’s forecasted growth into new vehicle variants, has experienced team members from McLaren, Aston Martin, Ferrari, General Motors , Koenigsegg, and Tesla, to name but a few, each of whom contributes to the delivery of customer cars around the globe.
The amazing BT62 Competition built for Horsepower Racing can be seen in the accompanying gallery.
“The growth of Brabham Automotive over the last couple of years is a testament to the up-front planning that we put in place operationally,” said Dan Marks, CEO of Brabham Automotive. “This ensures that we can scale Brabham to meet demand and as future vehicle variants come on line.”
The BT62 Competition features a 700hp, naturally-aspirated V8 and 6-speed sequential drivetrain driving an extreme lightweight chromoly safety cell, carbon fiber body, and world’s best stopping power via carbon-carbon brakes. The chassis is FIA compliant and ready for racing along with the onboard data and telemetry system, lightweight wheels shod with Goodyear slick racing tires (with wets supplied), and telematic control carbon fiber steering wheel.
Put simply, the BT62 is the most dynamic closed-wheel driver’s car in the world and this BT62 Competition is set to thrill both spectators and competitors alike in the coming season in the hands of owner/driver Paul Bailey and Ross Wylie.