GPL Cooper T81B

gpl67_cooper

Used at THR from 2019 to 2025

Brand: GrandPrix Legends
Country: Great Britain
Class: race
Year: 1967
Power: 390 bhp
Torque: 292 Nm
Weight: 558kg
Top speed: 300+km/h
Acceleration: --s 0-100
Power / weight: 1.43kg/cv

Derrick White was commissioned to design Cooper's very first monocoque chassis to house the Italian Maserati V12 engine. Dubbed the T81, the new 3-litre car was very conventional, perhaps with the exception of the front disc brakes, which were installed on the inside of the hub between the wishbones. Giulio Alfieri extensively reworked the almost ten year old engine, which produced a claimed 390 bhp. The Cooper team had always believed in the power of numbers and at various races in 1966, they fielded up to five Maserati powered T81s. Jochen Rindt scored the company's first Grand Prix win since 1962 at the Mexican Grand Prix and Pedro Rodriguez added another one in the 1967 opener in South Africa. The biggest problem of the 3-litre Coopers was the relatively high weight and in 1967 a lighter T81B was tried, but with little success.

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Championships11

Events35

Race sessions62

Drivers27

Years active2019–2025

Starts108

Wins1

Race laps1,671

Race distance8,534 km

Race time45.9 h

Championship	Period	Events	Starts	Wins	Drivers	Race laps
GPL Championship 7	2025	4	7	0	5	305
GPL Championship 7 - Practice Races	2025	2	8	0	4	170
6th Anniversary - GPL - 65 Laps at Mexico	2024	1	1	0	1	61
GPL 1967 Mod at Zolder - Fun Event	2024	1	4	0	5	101
GPL Championship 6 - Practice Races	2023–2024	2	3	0	2	37
5th Anniversary - GPL - 65 Laps at Fuji	2023	1	1	0	1	62
GPL Championship 5	2021	3	2	0	2	60
GPL Championship 4 (Throwback)	2020–2021	9	24	0	3	304
GPL Championship 4 (Throwback) – Practice Races	2020	1	2	0	1	11
GPL Championship 3	2020	5	35	1	7	330
GPL Championship 1	2019	6	21	0	3	230