Legendary British F1 team Brabham reveals plans to make road cars just weeks after launching a £1.2m track-only comeback car
The resurrected racing brand is set to explore new avenues with mass production cars
HAVING followed in their father's footsteps as professional racers, Geoff, Gary and David Brabham have already successfully revived their namesake car brand.
The BT62 track-only hypercar was launched in May this year - the first to take the Brabham name since 1992.
Now the family plans to take a step further with road-going cars, according to youngest son, David.
He told automotive website Motor1: "When we launched on May 2 we demonstrated the Brabham BT62 which is a track car only, but we also said we want the go racing and we want to go to road as well.
"Obviously we need time to grow and mature, but those are the dreams.
"Brabham's DNA is racing, so we had to come up with a product which relates to the racing more than the road – a halo project which says 'bang, here we are.'
"It's fast, it looks great - it can go to road [and] it can go to racing with the next variants; to go straight into a road car would be a massive investment.
"It just didn't feel like that was the right strategy for us."
With Le Mans wins under his belt, David led a crowdfunding campaign in the hope of creating the BT62 to race in the 24 Hour series.
Almost £300,000 was raised by mid-November, 2014.
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The car made an appearance last week at the Goodwood Festival Speed, where David revealed Brabham's road-going ambitions.
Costing over £1million, the BT62's 5.4-litre V8 engine produces 700bhp.
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