Contacting Brian Hart

[PeterMorley]

Having just come into possession of most of a 1998 Hart V-10 F1 engine I'd like to try to find a few more pieces to turn this into a nice show engine.

What happened to Hart engines?
I gather that TWR took them over, what happened then?
Any idea who would have ended up with the components?

And if anyone happens to know the history of engine no. 98105 I'd be really interested!

[Peter Mallett]

Not sure but aren't they still in Rugby?

[PeterMorley]

I've been looking on the internet and can't find anything - might just mean they are old fashioned (or I'm searching for the wrong thing), but it's the easiest thing for me to try from Belgium.
They aren't in the Autosport directory either

[Peter Mallett]

Good luck anyway. They were the last of the privateer engines if I recall correctly./

[vaughan jones]

brian hart engines were in harlow [essex] dont ever think there moved to rugby

[Peter Mallett]

Ah it was another engine builder then.

[h4887]

Originally Posted by Peter Mallett

Not sure but aren't they still in Rugby?

Brian Hart was on the Pinnacles trading estate in Harlow, just across the road from where I work. The premises are now occupied by a firm called Tecno, but sadly not the one that made racing cars!

Geoff

[mountainstar]

Hart was absorbed by the TWR empire and what happened to it after the bankruptcy don't know. Was it picked up by Menard perhaps?

Motorsport did a article on Hart a sometime ago. If I remember correctly he is now living in France and is out of the business.

[andy97]

I had a feeling that Paul Stoddart picked up a lot of the ex Hart machinery & dynos etc so that he could self prepare the engines in his F1 two seaters and (originally) in his EuroBossTyrrells.

[PeterMorley]

Originally Posted by andy97

I had a feeling that Paul Stoddart picked up a lot of the ex Hart machinery & dynos etc so that he could self prepare the engines in his F1 two seaters and (originally) in his EuroBossTyrrells.

That would make sense - apaprently it is the same engine that was fitted in the Arrows 2 seaters, which I think Stoddart bought and still uses?

I will chase them up (via my EuroBOSS contacts).

[driftwood]

stodart did not get the hart v10 engines when twr took over hart they used them and twr thought they could do a better job at their factory- they couldnt
Brian was shafted big time in the end and the company was wound down and sold off by auction
twr carried on with their v10 engine a derivative of the hart v10
twr went bust all motors where sold at auction in 2004
stoddart bought the 2003 cars and parts for the carbon gearbox
the motors where sold off elsewhere
the hart v10 was used in Jordans 93 94 F1 cars
if u pm me i will tell u more
Ruby location is Judds ( engine developments mr Mallet! )

[andy97]

I didn't say that Stoddart got the V10 engines, just the machinery & dynos, and I thought that it was that that happened as a result of the auction. I might still be wrong but I thought that I'd read that somewhere. I'll bow to driftwood's greater knowledge though.

[driftwood]

stoddy already had dynos etc at his factory cant see him buying more
u may be right would want to say yr wrong till i have the dna to prove it!!
if yr right how low do i have to bow!!