Brabham cars also competed in the Indianapolis 500 and in Formula 5000 racing.

He also set up Engine Developments Ltd. in 1971 with John Judd, who had worked for Brabham on the Repco engine project in the mid 1960s.

Geoff was an Indycar and sportscar racer who won five North American sportscar championships as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while David competed in Formula One for the Brabham team and has also won the Le Mans race as well as three Japanese and North American sportscar titles.

This time, apart from the standard and 90 stages of tune, there was also, for a brief time, a Brabham SL / 90 HB that was purported to have been developed with the aid of world racing champion Jack Brabham.

Jack Sears won the British Touring Championship in 1963 and the racing Galaxies were also driven by Sir Jack Brabham, Graham Hill and other notable drivers of the period.

It also has small school farmland and Jack Brabham Park.

A ' sports ' model was also released at the same time called the ' Brabham ' Torana, named in honour of the well-respected Australian race-car driver, Sir Jack Brabham.

The Brabham also included wider wheel rims and red-wall tyres, power assisted front disc brakes as standard, different badging and black body accents.

In addition to the Grand Prix, the circuit also held 11 non-championship Formula 1 races, known as the Aintree 200, first won by Stirling Moss in 1954 with the last winner being Jack Brabham, in April 1964.

Australian Jack Brabham led for Cooper with 31 points to 25. 5 for Stirling Moss, also in a Cooper, and 23 for Ferrari driver Tony Brooks.

Brabham was also passed by Brooks for third place, but the final three cars still running were several laps behind.

Jack Brabham took second place after a strong fight with Trevor Taylor, who also suffered mechanical problems.

Just past half distance, on lap 55, Brabham also blew his engine!

A lap down in third place, also driving a Brabham BT20 was Brabham's team mate New Zealander Denny Hulme.

It was also the last Formula One victory for triple world champion Jack Brabham.

Occasional showers fell during the race, contributing to the accident toll which also claimed Patrick Depailler ( Tyrrell 007 ), Jacques Laffite ( Williams FW02 ) and John Watson ( Brabham BT44 ).

John Watson took his first career pole for Brabham with Jody Scheckter also on the front row and Carlos Reutemann third.

As the fan also cooled the engine, Brabham claimed that this, not aerodynamics, was its primary function.

Stefano Modena's 3rd place and team mate Martin Brundle's 6th place finish at the Monaco Grand Prix resulted in the Brabham team no longer having to pre-qualify for the remainder of the season, while Alex Caffi's 4th place in the same race also meant he would not have to pre-qualify his Dallara either.

There were many announcements prior to the race, Brabham announced they would use Yamaha engines for 1991, Footwork also announced a Porsche engine deal for 1991 and they also retained both drivers in Alex Caffi and Michele Alboreto.

The pre-qualifying draw was also redrawn, with Dallara, Modena, and Jordan escaping the Friday morning dungeon, and condemning Brabham, AGS, and Footwork to join Fondmetal and Coloni in the jittery Friday morning session.

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

At first Schonberg drove the homemade device, powered by a modified JAP motorcycle engine built by Brabham in his workshop.

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

In retirement, he continues to be involved in motorsport events, regularly appearing at contemporary and historic motorsport events around the world where until recently he often drove his former Cooper and Brabham cars.

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 ).

In the same year, he made his Formula One debut with the Ensign team and drove for McLaren and Brabham.

Meanwhile, Brabham won the Drivers ' Championship with Piquet, who drove the BT49 throughout the season.

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.

Brabham drove home serenely to win his first race in eight Grands Prix by 49. 5 seconds and justify his position as reigning World Champion.

Argentinian driver Carlos Reutemann drove his Brabham BT44B to third place.

Andrea de Cesaris drove superbly to finish third for Brabham despite having to push his car over the line with Eddie Cheever ( Arrows A10 ), Satoru Nakajima ( Lotus 99T ) and Arnoux taking the remaining points.

The Drivers ' Championship was won by Nelson Piquet, who drove for the Brabham team.

He drove a privately-entered Brabham for Goldie Hexagon Racing at the French Grand Prix but failed to qualify, before moving to the works team alongside namesake Carlos Reutemann for the next race.

He subsequently drove a Brabham for RAM in the 1976 British Grand Prix, before he moved to the Aurora F1 Championship in the late 1970s.

He drove Brabham BT42s for Scuderia Finotto.

Kinnunen also participated in the Finnish F3 Championship with an outdated Brabham in 1967, and a Titan which he drove to several victories in 1968, including one at Ahvenisto Race Circuit in which he managed to beat Swedish future Formula One star Ronnie Peterson.

In 1976, he drove a Brabham for RAM, and in 1977 he drove his own Apollon-Williams, although this car was not a success.

Chris Amon, Mario Andretti, Jack Brabham, John Cannon, Mark Donohue, Vic Elford, George Follmer, Masten Gregory, Dan Gurney, Jim Hall, Phil Hill, Denny Hulme, Jacky Ickx, Parnelli Jones, Roger McCluskey, Bruce McLaren, Paul Newman, Jackie Oliver, Sam Posey, Peter Revson, Pedro Rodríguez, Swede Savage, Jo Siffert, John Cordts, David Hobbs, Jackie Stewart and John Surtees all drove Can-Am cars at one time or another.

He had previously competed in Formula Two and drove his Brabham in the Formula Two class of the 1969 German Grand Prix.

In the 1960s, Brabham was the world's largest manufacturer of open wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams, and had built more than 500 cars by 1970.

British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.

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.

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

Brabham had a poor season, scoring only four points, and — having run his own private Coopers in non-championship events during 1961 — left the company in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

Brabham finished third or fourth in the constructors ' championship for three years running, but poor reliability marred promising performances on several occasions.

Although Brabham bought Cosworth DFV engines for the 1969 season, Rindt left to join Lotus.

The team were second in the constructors ' championship, aided by second places at Monaco and Watkins Glen scored by Piers Courage, driving a Brabham for the Frank Williams Racing Cars privateer squad.

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.

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.

Brabham soon " seemed to merge into Cooper Cars ": he was not an employee, but he started working at Cooper on a daily basis from the midpoint of the 1955 season building a Bobtail mid-engined sports car, intended for Formula One, the top category of single seater racing.

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.

Brabham briefly and unsuccessfully campaigned his own second hand Formula One Maserati 250F during 1956, but his season was saved by drives for Cooper in sports cars and Formula Two, the junior category to Formula One.

In 1959, Cooper obtained 2. 5-litre engines for the first time and Brabham put the extra power to good use by winning his first world championship race at the season-opening Monaco Grand Prix after Jean Behra's Ferrari and Stirling Moss's Cooper failed.

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.

Brabham continued to drive for Cooper, but on the long flight back from the 1960 season-opening Argentine Grand Prix, he had a heart-to-heart with John Cooper.

The same year, Brabham entered the famous Indianapolis 500 oval race for the first time in a modified version of the Formula One Cooper.

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.