#Brabham

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Riccardo Patrese Brabham - BMW 1982

#Riccardo Patrese #Brabham #1982

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Brabham BT44. - source Moto Vitelloni - Wheels n' wings.

#brabham

[308ferrari]

#alfa romeo #brabham #classic f1 #formula 1 #formula one #real f1 #red #f1

[retromania4ever]

1967 Dutch GP at Zandvoort 🏁

Jim Clark 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and Jack Brabham 🇦🇺

#vintage car #antique car #automobile #supercar #old car #retrocar #old cars #lemans24h #formula 1 #ferrari #Brabham #Jim Clark

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"Melbourne made its debut on the F1 race calendar #OnThisDay in 1996 🤩 It was also the day that Michael Schumacher raced in scarlet red for the first time ❤️ Swipe 👈 to see more of Albert Park where Damon Hill took the chequered flag and Martin Brundle walked away unscathed from a dramatic opening lap crash. We can't wait to go back Down Under again for round 3 of the 2024 season on March 22-24 🙃" - march 10, 2024 📷 @.f1 / instagram

#eddie irvine #michael schumacher #ferrari #mika hakkinen #david coulthard #mclaren #damon hill #williams #martin brundle #jordan #1996 #1990s #australia #melbourne #1996 australian gp #australian gp 1996 #tw crashing #tw smoking #jack brabham #brabham #(note to self: the last pic is jack brabham in his brabham bt20 repco. confirmed on mi.)

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Niki Lauda testing his Alfa-Brabham BT45C in Rio de Janeiro, in 1977 (x)

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On track he was always the toughest of tough competitors, tough sometimes to the point at which I’d wonder how could such a nice bloke out of a car grow such horns and a tail inside one,

Stirling Moss on Jack Brabham

Sir Jack Brabham's three world championships ( 1959, 1960, 1966) were the product of both his engineering expertise and driving skill. His first two titles, in rear-engined Coopers he helped develop, confirmed the obsolescence of front-engined Formula One cars. His third title, in a Brabham, made him the only driver to become champion in a car of his own make. His last win came at the 1970 South African Grand Prix, after which, aged 44 and with 126 races behind him, the triple champion retired to Australia. His now-defunct team was sold to future Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone while Ron Dennis, Brabham’s erstwhile chief mechanic, went on to transform McLaren.

At 18 he joined the Royal Australian Air Force in Adelaide, where he wanted to learn to fly but was instead trained to fill a wartime shortage of flight mechanics. Upon his discharge, in 1946, an uncle in the construction business built him a workshop in Sydney, where Jack opened his own engineering establishment. 

Jack's introduction to motorsport came through a friend who raced midgets on dirt track ovals in 1951. Jack helped him build a new car and when his friend decided to stop driving Jack took over and became a regular winner. In self-prepared midgets he won four successive Australian championships and was the 1953 hillclimb champion in a British-built Cooper-Bristol. Two years later his growing ambition to expand his motorsport horizons brought Jack to England. A meeting with John and Charles Cooper, constructors of his successful Australian car, led to a friendship and partnership that would propel the tiny Cooper Car Company and 'Black Jack' Brabham into the forefront of Formula One history.

With Brabham providing the inspiration (he helped persuade the Coopers to take the rear-engine route into Formula One racing) and the perspiration (he built up his first chassis in Cooper's workshop) the tiny British cars with the engines in the back sped to the front in an era previously dominated by big, front-engined Italian and German roadsters.

In the Brabham-led team's first full championship season of 1958 the debut win for a Cooper came courtesy of Stirling Moss, who drove Rob Walker's private entry to victory in Argentina.

In 1959 Moss won twice, but Brabham's victories in Monaco and Britain together with his consistently high placings resulted in the Australian winning a drivers’ title that some thought owed more to stealth than skill, an opinion at least partly based on Brabham's low-key presence.

As much an engineer as a racing driver, with wartime experience working as ground crew in the Royal Australian Air Force, Brabham was never one to hog the limelight or seek attention. Always a man of few words - his nickname 'Black Jack' referred to both his dark hair and his propensity for maintaining a shadowy silence - he avoided small talk and was undemonstrative in the extreme.

Brabham may not have been a big talker or particularly flamboyant but he was as shrewd as they come. Behind the wheel he was anything but shy and retiring. He put his head down and drove exceedingly forcefully, opposite-locking his car dirt-track style, and was not averse to deliberately showering gravel in the face of a too closely following pursuer. His aversion for the limelight became more of a problem in 1960, when he completely dominated the nine-race series, winning consecutively in Holland, Belgium, France, Britain and Portugal, en route to his second successive championship.

Following an unproductive 1961 season, when the Ferraris were all powerful, Brabham left Cooper to form Motor Racing Developments, in partnership with the talented Australian designer Ron Tauranac. The MRD Brabhams were quickly successful in several categories of racing, particularly Formula Two where for several years they dominated, affording the opportunity for many drivers to advance their careers. The Brabham Formula One car, which first appeared late in 1962, became steadily more competitive as the team leader personally perfected the chassis set-up and fine-tuned the Climax engines. In 1964 Brabham had the satisfaction of seeing his team mate Dan Gurney win in France and Mexico.

For 1966, when the new 3-litre formula came into effect, Brabham persuaded an Australian company Repco (a manufacturer of automotive components) to produce a Formula One engine from a venerable Oldsmobile V8 design. Equally ancient was Brabham himself, or so it seemed to the media and his much younger rivals who used to kid him about his age. Prior to the 1966 Dutch Grand Prix, his first race after his 40th birthday, 'Geriatric Jack' Brabham hobbled onto the starting grid at Zandvoort, wearing a long false beard and leaning on a cane. Sportingly, several of his laughing opponents helped him into the cockpit of his Brabham-Repco, which happened to be on pole position.

Tossing aside his beard and cane Brabham proceeded to win that race, a feat he also accomplished in France, in Britain and in Germany - on the notoriously difficult and dangerous Nurburgring - a victory he felt was the most satisfying of his career. Thus in 1966 Brabham became the first (and still only) driver, to win the championship in a car of his own make. 

Jack Brabham, whose final victory came in the 1970 South African Grand Prix when he was 44, chose that season to retire as a driver. The Brabham team was sold to Bernie Ecclestone and Jack returned home to Australia, where he busied himself running a farm, a car dealership and an aviation company, and helped his sons with their racing careers. His contribution to British motorsport was officially recognised in 1985 and he became Sir Jack Brabham. He passed away peacefully at his home in May 2014, aged 88.

Photo above: Françoise Hardy (Singer), Jack Brabham and the Brabham BT19, Monza, 1966.

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#Formula 1 #F1 #Brabham #BMW #Brabham-BMW #Turbo #Nelson Piquet

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June 5, 1977 - Belgium Source: Hoch Zwei/Corbis via Getty Images

#sometimes a photo can hit you in profound ways #craving spaghetti now #Brabham #1977 #f1 #formula 1 #modern f1 could NEVER

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A look at the engines of various 60s F1 cars.

#I swear. #they look like they're some machine from a sci-fi movie #they're just so mesmerising aaah #60s f1 cars were just so beautiful!!!! <333 #bruce mclaren #dan gurney #jackie stewart #ferrari #lotus #honda #mclaren #eagle-climax #matra #brabham #cooper #classic f1 #f1 #formula 1 #retro f1 #f1 1960s #motorsport #photography

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L'attore americano Steve McQueen al volante di una Brabham sul circuito di Le Mans, in Francia, ascolta i consigli del pilota britannico di formula 1 Derek Bell, 18 luglio 1970. McQueen stava lavorando al film Le 24 Ore di Le Mans del regista Lee H. Katzin.

#cinema #steve mcqueen #brabham #le mans #car #1970s #b&w photography #ilblogdellestorie

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Martin Brundle Brabham - Judd 1989

#Martin Brundle #Brabham #1989

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Grand Prix du Canada - Circuit Mont-Tremblant, Québec 1970 - Andrea de Adamich (McLaren), Henri Pescarolo (Matra), Jack Brabham (Brabham), Rolf Stommelen (Brabham), Ronnie Peterson (March), Peter Gethin (McLaren), Denny Hulme (McLaren) et Jean-Pierre Beltoise (Matra). - Source François Lemoine.

#andrea de cesaris #henri pescarolo #jack brabham #rolf stommelen #ronnie peterson #peter gethin #denny hulme #jean-pierre beltoise #mclaren #matra #brabham #march #grand prix du canada #circuit du mont-tremblant #québec

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#alfa romeo #brabham #v12 #italian #f1 #formula 1 #autodelta

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Zandvoort 1968

Dan Gurney 🇺🇸 - Brabham

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Dan Gurney in the Brabham winning the French Grand Prix

#1960's #Formula 1 #Grand Prix #race car #1.5 litre #V8 #Coventry Climax #Brabham #BT7 #Dan Gurney #French Grand Prix #Australian style #Primotipo