Brian
Redman

Brian Redman was born in Burnley on 9 March 1937. He began racing in 1959 and won numerous sports car races. In 1968 he won the first of four Manufacturers' Championships, sharing a Ford GT40 with Jacky Ickx for John Wyer Automotive Engineering. He won the Targa Florio in 1970, and his outright wins also include the 24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring.

He made his Formula One World Championship debut on 1 January 1968. That season he started three races for Cooper and finished third in the Spanish Grand Prix behind Graham Hill and Denny Hulme. It remained his only podium. At the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps he had an accident after the suspension on his Cooper broke.

In the years that followed he changed teams several times: in 1970 he was entered for De Tomaso but did not start a race, in 1971 he drove for Surtees, and in 1972 for BRM and McLaren. With McLaren he finished fifth in both the Monaco and German Grands Prix in 1972 and ended the year 14th in the championship, his best finish in the overall standings. He drove for Shadow in 1973 and 1974. From 15 entries he made 12 starts, with no race wins and no pole positions.

In 1973 he began racing full-time in the United States, and from 1974 to 1976 he won the Formula 5000 championship three years running, in Lolas run by Carl Haas and Jim Hall. He crashed in practice for the first race of the new Can-Am series at Mont-Tremblant. In 1978 he returned by winning the 12 Hours of Sebring in a Porsche 935, and in 1981 he took the IMSA Camel GTP championship in a Lola T600. His last year of professional racing was 1989, with the works Aston Martin team in the World Sports Prototype Championship. He later co-managed the Redman Bright team. His honours include induction into the Daytona and Sebring halls of fame.

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