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Tue Mar 27, 2012 1:46 pm
There were also some surprise winners in the very beginning of the 3-litre era, in 1966/67. For example Jim Clark's win at Watkins Glen in '66, with a Lotus-BRM H16 - surely the worst engine that ever won a race in Formula 1 (BRM had a very good 1.5 litre V8 engine, so when the formula changed from 1.5 to 3.0 litres for 1966, they took two of those trusty 1.5 litre V8's, made flat-8's out of them, and clamped them together, forming a huge "H16" unit - needless to say this was only a good idea on paper...). Or consider Pedro Rodriguez' win in the opening round of the 1967 season at Kyalami, in a Cooper featuring a very out-of-date Maserati V12 engine, dating back to the mid-50's. Or John Surtees' win with the huge, noicy and terribly overweight Honda RA300 at Monza the same year.