Brabham BT28 (F3)

History

The BT28 refined the Tauranac F3 line for the one-litre formula's final act: lower and lighter than the BT21 lineage it evolved, with suspension geometry sharpened against Lotus's 59 in the era's fiercest customer-car rivalry. MRD's production discipline did the rest — BT28s shipped in numbers through 1969–70 to national F3 grids across Britain, Europe, Scandinavia and beyond.

Its racing was the screamer formula at maximum: fifteen-car slipstream packs at Silverstone and Chimay decided by tenths, national championships won on consistency through mechanical attrition, and a driver intake — the 1969–70 F3 generation fed directly into 70s F1 — using the car as its audition machinery. When 1600cc F3 arrived in 1971, BT28s cascaded into libre and club racing, which preserved an unusually high survival rate.

Historic F3 now rates the BT28 at or near the screamer class's sharp end: the HSCC grid's serious contenders include well-developed examples, values sit above the BT21's entry tier on that competitiveness, and the type shares the whole Tauranac ecosystem of spares knowledge and register documentation.

Palmarès

National F3 race wins and championship placings across Britain and Europe 1969–70 in the one-litre formula's closing seasons; the graduation results of the era's F1-bound class — and a modern record as a front-running HSCC Historic Formula 3 contender.