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User:Donnie Park/Brock Racing Enterprises

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United States Brock Racing Enterprises
Team principal(s)Pete Brock
Noted driversJohn Morton

Brock Racing Enterprises (BRE) was an American racing team from that was run by Pete Brock, a car dealership owner and former racing driver in Wilton, Connecticut. It is best known for being factory supported by Nissan (Datsun in its earlier career) for the majority of its period in showroom stock and sportscar racing. Although Sharp had been competing for a considerable period, his involvement with Nissan began as a dealer backed drive in the mid 1960s which would become a fully factory backed team and from the mid seventies to the early nineties, he employed John Morton who helped the team to take titles but the team became best known for taking on film star as a driver which not just brought attention to the team and series that he competed in, he helped to yield numerous championship titles throughout its history.

John Morton was an employee of Brock when he was offered the chance to race the 240Z. He made his name racing the 2000 Roadster

the car was standard other than the Mikuni carburetors they were required to fit[1]

C-Production, at the time fielded strong oppositions such as Bob Tullius with his Triumphs, Peter Gregg with his Porsche, Richie Ginther, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, Al Holbert with his 914

According to Morton, the only thing that remained from the original 240Z was the chassis plate that was removed during it's preparation as a race car[2]

Art Oehrli, former Chaparral engine mechanic; Mac Tilton, who later went on to found Tilton Engineering; John Caldwell in addition to his work to the Nissan GTP engines, he also developed the Viper engines for Dodge; John Knepp, co-founder of Electramotive Engineering; Trevor Harris, race car designer and George Boskoff.[2]

BRE ceased racing the Z after it's second championship title in 1971[2]

http://www.freddifred.com/trevorlharris/assets/trevor-lee-harris-bio-resume.pdf

References

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  1. ^ Evanow 2005, pp. 28–39.
  2. ^ a b c Evanow 2005, pp. 6–7.

Works cited

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  • Evanow, Pete (October 11, 2005). Z: 35 Years of Nissan's Sports Car. Motorbooks. ISBN 9780760321812. {{cite book}}: |access-date= requires |url= (help); Cite has empty unknown parameter: |archive= (help)CS1 maint: ref duplicates default (link)
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