A rocket that cuts the air at incredible speed. The BT52 has made history and it deserves to be among those cars that every F1 fan remembers and appreciates. A car that was impressive since the first race and still is unique in the genre.
After the end of the "miniskirts" era with the introduction of the flat surface underneath the car, 1983 saw a number of new technological attempts to gain the competitive edge. Gordon Murray, the head project manager for Brabham, made the decision of reducing the size of the lateral air pods to the minimum, making them part of the car and shaping them like an arrow, including the radiators.
This solution was made possible by the particular shape of the BMW engine. The front of the car was very finely tuned as well, with the aerodynamic shape of the cone where you could just see the suspensions attachments; a rounded body, the arrow shaped front wing and the good choice of blue and white as colours that followed the lines of the car shape.
