Michael Simon Brindley Bream Beuttler was a British racing driver who competed during the late 1960s and early 1970s. Born in Cairo, Egypt, to a military family—his father being Colonel Leslie Brindley Bream Beuttler—he was also a descendant of the Scottish ornithologist William Robert Ogilvie-Grant. Beuttler established himself as a talented competitor in Formula Three before progressing to Formula Two and ultimately entering Formula One in 1971.\n\nBeuttler's Formula One career was distinguished by his unique financial backing, which came from a group of stockbroker friends. This partnership led to the team names Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie Racing and later Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher Racing, earning his privately entered March cars the nickname 'Stockbroker Special.' Though he primarily drove private entries, he also raced once for the works March team at the 1971 Canadian Grand Prix.\n\nOver his career, Beuttler competed in 28 Formula One races, securing six top-ten finishes. While he did not achieve a points-scoring finish under the scoring systems of his era, his results would have delivered points by modern championship regulations. His career-best result was a seventh-place finish at the 1973 Spanish Grand Prix. Following the 1973 oil crisis, which financially impacted his backers, Beuttler retired from professional racing in 1974 at the age of 34, after competing in the 1000 km of Brands Hatch.
