Picked up a cracking book yesterday, its Brabham the grand Prix cars, which of course covers the mid 70's period when they used the Alfa flat 12.

Only got as far as the BT45 at the moment, but its interesting to read how good the Alfa engine was in some respects, it made over 500bhp and was fairly flexible. But also how crap alfa were when it came to quality control, apparently the mounting points were slightly different on every engine, along with the exhaust ports. Oh and it also liked to blow all its oil out.

The BT45 also used the radical new Dunlop carbon brakes. Was this the first GP to use them?