Brabham BT36 (F2)

History

The BT36 (1971) closed the Tauranac F2 line in the designer's last MRD year: the spaceframe philosophy at maximum refinement — lower, cleaner and better-balanced than the BT30 it evolved — built for the FVA formula's final seasons before the 2-litre era swept in. Works-supported and customer cars ran across the 1971–72 European championship.

Its drivers spanned the formula's whole ecology: Graham Hill took the BT36 to victory in the 1971 International Trophy's F2 companion events and European rounds' points, Wilson Fittipaldi and Carlos Reutemann-generation rising names ran them hard, and the graded-star structure kept every weekend a mixed showcase of Grand Prix names and hungry juniors. Against March's volume and Tecno's speed the BT36 held the marque's end up to the spaceframe's very limit.

Historic Formula 2 gives the type its due: eligible in the FVA class alongside BT30s, rarer than its predecessor (a short production run in a transition year), and carrying last-of-line collectibility — the final Tauranac F2 design, from the final Tauranac year, at values that track that story.

Palmarès

European F2 championship round wins and podiums 1971–72 (Graham Hill among the type's winners); Argentine temporada and non-championship F2 results; the closing chapter of Brabham's works F2 record before the marque's 2-litre retreat — now an FVA-class historic F2 contender.