Martin Richard Brain (22 December 1932,

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) was a British racing driver known for his exploits in British hillclimbs and club racing. Brain was a familiar figure within the hillclimbing community both as driver and mechanic. The peak of his career was finishing as overall runner-up to Peter Lawson in the 1968 British Hillclimb Championship in a Cooper T81B F1 chassis which he had fitted with a 7.2l

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V8 engine, taking one win and four second places. The following year he drove this car and a Cooper T86B BRM F1 car to take 4th place in the championship with a further two wins. Brain scored two race wins in club

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races, firstly at Silverstone in September 1969 and Croft in May 1970. He died in a race organised by Nottingham Sportscar Club at

when his Cooper BRM left the track during a close dice with Graham Eden's Chevron and flipped.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Brain, Martin 1932 births 1970 deaths English racing drivers British hillclimb drivers Racing drivers from Birmingham, West Midlands 20th-century English sportsmen