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JBW Cars was a British
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manufacturer in the late 1950s, who were a
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constructor from to 1961. Brian Naylor, an amateur driver from
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, financed his mechanic Fred Wilkinson to build a number of sports cars that were competitive against second-level national fields but were not competitive on the international stage. As well as constructing their own sports racers, JBW also prepared and entered
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single-seater racing cars for Naylor to drive in
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and occasional
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events.


Formula One

Following two seasons competing in Formula Two races with the JBW
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and T45, Brian Naylor decided to enter Formula One proper in 1959. To achieve this Fred Wilkinson constructed a car — the JBW Type 1 — that was strongly influenced by the contemporary Cooper designs, and carried its
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engine behind the driver. The first appearance of the JBW-Maserati was at the pre-season
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non-Championship race at
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, on 2 May 1959. Naylor arrived too late to post a qualifying time, and retired on lap 41 of the race with gearbox failure. On 18 July Naylor appeared in the JBW car at the
1959 British Grand Prix The 1959 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Aintree Circuit on 18 July 1959. It was race 5 of 9 in the 1959 World Championship of Drivers and race 4 of 8 in the 1959 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. It w ...
at
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. Although he managed to qualify ahead of such well known drivers as Tony Brooks,
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and
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, again the JBW let Naylor down and the car's transmission failed on lap 18. One final outing that year resulted in a failure even to qualify, after Naylor suffered an accident during practice for the Gold Cup race at
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on 26 September. The JBW Type 1 did not appear again until the following year's International Trophy race, on 14 May 1960. While Naylor and the JBW-Maserati qualified in 25th and last place, by the finish he had worked his way up to 11th position, the car lasting the distance for the first time in a competitive event. Unfortunately for Naylor, the first race of the World Championship season, the
1960 Monaco Grand Prix The 1960 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monaco on 29 May 1960. It was race 2 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 2 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was won ...
, was not to provide such positive results and he once again failed to qualify. However, his next race, the
1960 British Grand Prix The 1960 British Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit, Northamptonshire, England, on 16 July 1960. It was race 7 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 6 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup ...
provided Brian Naylor with his best ever Championship finish, after he came home in 13th place, having qualified in 18th place. His run of form continued at the Brands Hatch Silver City Trophy event on 1 August, where he finished 11th. Things appeared even to be looking up for the JBW team when Naylor qualified the JBW-Maserati in 7th position for the
1960 Italian Grand Prix The 1960 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Monza on 4 September 1960. It was race 9 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 8 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was w ...
at
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, but his luck had begun to change and the car's gearbox failed on the 42nd lap. One further World Championship race (in the
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) and two non-Championship events in the remainder of the 1960 season all resulted in early retirements. The JBW-Maserati had further outings in the 1961
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events, but on each occasion Naylor failed to finish. The car also ran with a 1.5-litre Maserati engine in some non-Championship events, but with no better result. For the World Championship and most other Formula One events Naylor and Wilkinson decided to switch to
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power, and redesigned the JBW car around their ''FPF'',
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motor. This new car — the JBW Type 2 — made its first appearance at the
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race at Silverstone (ironically an Intercontinental Formula event), but failed to finish. It also failed to reach the finishing flag in its only World Championship event, the
1961 Italian Grand Prix The 1961 Italian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 10 September 1961 at Monza. It was race 7 of 8 in both the 1961 World Championship of Drivers and the 1961 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. The race was marked b ...
, but only a week later provided Naylor with his best ever finish when he took 9th place in the
1961 International Gold Cup The 8th Gold Cup was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 23 September 1961 at Oulton Park, England. The race was run over 60 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver Stirling Moss in a Ferguson P99. This was the only tim ...
at Oulton Park. Naylor only made one further appearance in the JBW-Climax, and retired on the first lap of the
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-hosted Lewis-Evans Trophy. At the end of the 1961 season, and in increasingly poor health, Naylor retired from competition and wound up JBW Cars.


Complete Formula One World Championship results

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) (results in bold indicate pole position) (results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) Constructors' Championship not awarded until .
Ineligible for Constructors points.


References

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