Martin Brain

{{Short description|British racing driver (1932–1970)}}

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Martin Richard Brain (22 December 1932, Birmingham – {{death date and age |1970|5|25|1932|12|22|df=yes}}, Silverstone){{Cite web |title=Martin Brain |website=motorsportmemorial.org |url=http://www.motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=4203 |access-date=2013-10-03}} was a British racing driver known for his exploits in British hillclimbs and club racing.

Brain was a familiar figure within the hillclimbing community both as driver and mechanic. The peak of his career was finishing as overall runner-up to Peter Lawson in the 1968 British Hillclimb Championship in a Cooper T81B F1 chassis which he had fitted with a 7.2l Chrysler V8 engine, taking one win and four second places.{{Cite web |title=Cooper T81B F1-1-67 |website=oldracingcars.com |url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/f1/car.php?CarID=T81B/1-67 |access-date=2013-10-04}} The following year he drove this car and a Cooper T86B BRM F1 car to take 4th place in the championship with a further two wins.{{Cite web |title=Cooper T86B F1-1-68 |website=oldracingcars.com |url=http://www.oldracingcars.com/f1/car.php?CarID=T86B/1-68 |access-date=2013-10-04}} Brain scored two race wins in club Formula Libre races, firstly at Silverstone in September 1969 and Croft in May 1970.{{cite web |title= So British! F1 and FL Club races 1945-today |date=2009-01-23 |website=jpgleize.perso.neuf.fr |url=http://jpgleize.perso.neuf.fr/gp/clumod.htm |access-date=2013-10-04 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100117133142/http://jpgleize.perso.neuf.fr/gp/clumod.htm |archive-date=2010-01-17}}

He died in a race organised by Nottingham Sportscar Club at Silverstone when his Cooper BRM left the track during a close dice with Graham Eden's Chevron and flipped.