Neil Brown, who has died after a brief illness a few days short of his 75th birthday, was one of the most important figures in British motorsport. MarcusSimmons54 pays tribute to the prominent engine builder for tin-tops and single-seaters ⬇️
Few can match the record of his Lincolnshire-based Neil Brown Engineering company, which built engines that were victorious in European and British Formula Ford 2000 in the 1980s, via domination in British Formula 3, a host of DTM and British Touring Car Championship title successes, to servicing the spec engines in British Formula 4.
West Surrey Racing’s F3 deal with Mugen Honda for 1989 led the Japanese company to appoint NBE as its preparation house for European motorsport. The team’s Mika Hakkinen was the first to claim a title with NBE-supplied Mugen engines, in 1990, and NBE powered every British series champion but one with its Mugen hardware up to and including 2005.
NBE has also enjoyed tremendous success in the DTM. When Abt Sportsline began its Audi project in 2001, Brown’s company built the 4.0-litre, 90-degree V8 powerplants, and continued in the role once the Ingolstadt marque returned to the series in an official capacity, winning numerous titles. “I thought we were going to have engines straight from Japan, but he wanted to set up a European branch, so I took him to Neil Brown, Mountune and Nicholson McLaren. He then said, ‘Which one do you want?’ and I said, ‘It’s your money, Mr Honda!’
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