# Chevron B42 (F2)

- Source: https://racingcarnetwork.com/wiki/chevron-b42/
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- Type: car · Brand: Chevron
- Discipline: formula
- Series: f2
- Era: 1970s
- Last updated: 2026-07-06
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The B42 is Bolton's Formula 2 farewell: the 1978 monocoque whose season carried the house through its tragedy — the Hart-and-BMW-engined campaigns — the marque's single-seater testament at the category's hardest tier.

## Specifications

| Spec | Value |
|---|---|
| Engine | 2.0 Hart/BMW F2 options |
| Power | ~300 hp (Hart 420R era) |
| Construction | Monocoque-era commitment |
| Season | 1978's grief-shadowed campaign |
| Testament | The founder's final F2 design |
| Diligence | Register law + fitment precision |
| Years | 1978–1979 |
| Class | Historic F2 testament |

## History

Chevron's Formula 2 programme closed with the B42 (1978): the house's monocoque-era commitment to the category's hardest customer tier — the European F2 Championship's works-adjacent war (the Hart-and-BMW engine options against the March-Ralt-and-works field), the season the type fought as Derek Bennett's death (March 1978, mid-season) turned the campaign into the marque's grief — with the B42's races carrying Bolton's single-seater story to its effective close, the B48-era attempts after the founder's loss the epilogue the registers record.

The category's stakes explain the choice: F2's late-seventies depth (the works-junior teams and future champions the grids carried), the Hart 420R's era arithmetic against BMW's four, and the monocoque transition's engineering demands — the tier where customer constructors proved themselves or didn't.

The testament weight is the type's identity as the B36 carries it for the sports-racers: the founder's final F2 design, the mid-season tragedy's campaign, and the closing-chapter scholarship the marque's apparatus preserves.

The present is historic-F2 custody: the 2-litre F2 revival classes' welcome (the BDG-and-Hart-era categories), engine-option economics per fitment, and the affection layer the testament designations carry heaviest.

## Palmarès

European F2 Championship campaign results through 1978's grief-shadowed season — the farewell's ledger at the category's hardest tier.

## What to check before you buy

Testament-tier law at the single-seater close: register scholarship per chassis (the run's identities and the 1978 season's campaign histories — the mid-season tragedy's documentation the marque scholarship holds), engine-option precision (Hart-versus-BMW fitment histories pricing specifications per the era's F2 law), and monocoque-era construction forensics per the transition's stakes. Historic-F2 revival eligibility structures the racing life; engine-first economics per the category's arithmetic. The farewell affection prices the founder's final F2 design as the testament rule runs.

## Did you know

- Mid-season grief: Bennett's March 1978 death turning the B42's campaign into the house's mourning — racing's cruelest testament timing.
- The hardest tier was the choice: F2's works-adjacent war being where Bolton's single-seater farewell chose to stand.
- The epilogue designations exist: the post-founder attempts the registers record as the story's fading close.

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