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3 unusual facts about Connaught Engineering


Jack Fairman

He took a Connaught Type B to two points finishes during the 1956 Formula One season, his only points in a very long Formula One career, finishing tenth in the World Championship that year.

His most significant contribution in this role was during the development of Connaught's Formula Two and later Formula One cars.

Tony Brooks

He participated in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 14 July 1956, and scored the first win by a British driver in a British car in a Grand Prix since 1923, in 1955 driving a Connaught at Syracuse in a non World Championship race.



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