Few can match the record of his Lincolnshire-based Neil Brown Engineering company, which built engines that were victorious in European and British Formula Ford 2000 in the 1980s, via domination in British Formula 3, a host of DTM and British Touring Car Championship title successes, to servicing the spec engines in British Formula 4.
From his early days at BRM and Vegantune, then one of the top Ford twin-cam engine tuners in the 1600cc Formula 3 era, Brown formed NBE in 1973, initially working on Ford F3 and Cosworth BDA Formula Atlantic powerplants. But it was after the launch of the Pinto-engined FF2000 category in 1975 that his company really came to prominence in single-seaters.
