" The cars were subsequently known as Brabhams, with type numbers starting with BT for " Brabham Tauranac ".

A rear-engined T51 of the type Brabham used to win his first world championship. On arriving in Europe on his own in early 1955, Brabham based himself in the UK, where he bought another Cooper to race in national events.

Brabham pushed for further advances, and played a significant role in developing Cooper's highly successful 1960 T53 " lowline " car, with input from his friend Tauranac.

Brabham was confident he could do better than Cooper, and in late 1959 he asked Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

Brabham describes Tauranac as " absolutely the only bloke I'd have gone into partnership with ".

The new company would compete with Cooper in the market for customer racing cars ; as Brabham was still employed by Cooper, Tauranac produced the first MRD car, for the entry level Formula Junior class, in secrecy.

The car was fast — Rindt set pole position twice during the season — but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year with only ten points.

However, Rindt's late decision to remain with Lotus meant that Brabham drove for another year.

In 1962 he established his own Brabham marque with fellow Australian Ron Tauranac, which became the largest manufacturer of customer racing cars in the world in the 1960s.

Brabham was involved with cars and mechanics from an early age.

Brabham records that he was not taken with the idea of driving, being convinced that the drivers " were all lunatics " but he agreed to build a car with Schonberg.

Brabham won the 1948 Australian Speedway Championship, the 1949 Australian and South Australian Speedcar championships, and the 1950 – 1951 Australian championship with the car.

Visits to the Cooper factory for parts led to a friendship with Charlie and John Cooper, who told the story that after many requests for a drive with the factory team, Brabham was given the keys to the transporter taking the cars to a race.

Later in the year Brabham, again driving the Bobtail, tussled with Stirling Moss for third place in a non-championship Formula One race at Snetterton.

In 1957, Brabham drove another mid-engined Cooper, again only fitted with a 2-litre engine, at the Monaco Grand Prix.

The airborne car hit a telegraph pole, throwing Brabham onto the track, where he narrowly avoided being hit by one of his teammates but escaped with no serious injury.

Despite his success with Cooper, Brabham was sure he could do better.

He considered buying Cooper in partnership with Roy Salvadori and then in late 1959 he asked his friend Ron Tauranac to come to the UK and work with him, initially producing upgrade kits for Sunbeam Rapier and Triumph Herald road cars at his car dealership, Jack Brabham Motors, but with the long-term aim of designing racing cars.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the Gordon Murray designed " fan car "— which won its only race before being withdrawn — in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension.

The Brabham Racing Organisation ( BRO ) started the year fielding customer Lotus chassis, in which Brabham took two points finishes, before the turquoise-liveried Brabham BT3 car made its debut at the 1962 German Grand Prix.

Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.

Brabham retired to Australia after the 1970 Formula One season, where he bought a farm and maintained various business interests, which included the Engine Developments racing engine manufacturer and several garages.

Brabham soon branched out into his own business selling motorbikes, which he bought and repaired for sale, using his parents ' back veranda as his workshop.

Brabham and Tauranac set up a company called Motor Racing Developments Ltd. ( MRD ), which initially produced customer racing cars, while Brabham himself continued to race for Cooper.

On both occasions the Brabham family, which was unconnected to the ventures, announced its intention to take legal advice.

The cars available include the Lotus 49, the Ferrari 312, the Eagle-Weslake T1G, the Brabham BT24 and the H 16 powered BRM P115 ( which though striking was not a great success ; indeed, Jackie Stewart called it the worst car he drove in his entire career ).

Panorama Village zoned to Turner Elementary School, Brabham Middle School, and Willis High School, all of which are in unincorporated Montgomery County.

This engine was the result of a deal between BMW and Brabham, which resulted in the team's chassis being powered by BMW engines from until, a period in which Nelson Piquet won the championship driving a Brabham BT52-BMW.

In, Brabham temporarily withdrew from the sport and BMW withdrew its official backing from the engines, which were still used by the Arrows team under the Megatron badge.

Perhaps his most notable restoration was the 1961 Kimberly Cooper-Climax Type 54, the car in which Sir Jack Brabham began the " rear engine revolution " at Indianapolis.

At one press conference at which Sarich presented the engine, automotive engineer Phil Irving ( designer of the Vincent Motorcycle and Brabham Formula One engines ) pointed out a number of technical difficulties.

Some were fitted with fully balanced motors by Jack Brabham Motors or Laystall Engineering in London, which was offered as an option in the sales catalogue.

The BRP BRM P25 which Stirling Moss drove to second place in the 1959 British Grand Prix, BRP's first podium finish. The race was won by Australian Jack Brabham taking his second Grand Prix victory in a works Cooper T51.

Phil Hill and Graham Hill crashed into each other on lap 6, whilst Brabham had an enormous somersaulting crash from which he emerged unscathed.

* 1926 – Jack Brabham, Australian race car driver

Founded in 1960 by two Australians, driver Jack Brabham and designer Ron Tauranac, the team won four drivers ' and two constructors ' world championships in its 30-year Formula One history.

Jack Brabham was 40 when he won the F1 drivers ' title in a Brabham car.

The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia.

Jack Brabham took the team's first win at the non-championship Solitude Grand Prix in 1963.

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.

Jack Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name ( cf Surtees, Hill and Fittipaldi Automotive ).

His replacement, Jacky Ickx, had a strong second half to the season, winning in Germany and Canada, after Jack Brabham was sidelined by a testing accident.

Jack Brabham intended to retire at the end of the 1969 season and sold his share in the team to Tauranac.

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

" Jack Brabham, seen here at the Nürburgring 1965 in a 1. 5-litre Brabham BT11-Climax, never liked the smaller-engined Formula One car

At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham took his first Formula One world championship win since 1960 and became the first man to win such a race in a car of his own construction.

Brabham is a shareholder in Jack Brabham Engines Pty Ltd., an Australian company marketing Jack Brabham memorabilia.