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Brabham began the 1982 season with two BMW-powered BT50 chassis at the South African Grand Prix, where Piquet and Patrese qualified second and fourth respectively, but retired early in the race.
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Brabham and began
In late 1958, Brabham rekindled his interest in flying and began taking lessons.
In the early 1950s, it seemed as if every aspiring young British racing driver began behind the wheel of a Cooper, and Cooper's Formula One cars were driven by the legendary drivers of the time — Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss, Maurice Trintignant, Bruce McLaren.
When Brabham, an Indy rookie, began his warmup laps, he was unaware of the requirement to gradually build up his speed on the track.
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.
Midway through, with half the field out due to mechanical problems, Brabham slowed to allow McLaren to close up to him, and Trintignant's Rob Walker Cooper began taking huge bites off their lead, as his pit crew kept him informed of his position.
Brabham then began to gain significantly on Clark as the Scot's Climax engine started to splutter, however this proved to be a sporadic fault and he had enough of a lead to maintain the position.
The win was the first of four consecutive victories for Brabham as he began his march towards his third World Championship.
Ginther immediately began dropping back, while Brabham found his rhythm and moved up, taking Clark in ' The 90 ' on lap four, and then Bandini for the lead on lap 10.
On lap 20, Bandini regained the lead from Brabham and began to draw away until, suddenly, on lap 34, his engine blew and Brabham found himself alone with a sizable lead over Clark.
On lap 62, Brabham got by Ickx and began hounding Courage.
Brabham had to break off his pursuit of Courage when his engine began sputtering for lack of fuel, and he was forced to pit on lap 93, allowing Surtees to get through into third place.
Reutemann ran third for a while, but then began to drop down the order, and so reigning world champion Niki Lauda took third in his Brabham, which became second with ten laps left when Watson's engine blew up.
Free of the Brabham, Rosberg began closing in on de Angelis, slowling but surely reducing the 10 second gap.
" First of the heats, run at 10 a. m. round an almost deserted circuit, began as a terrific scrap between Peter Ryan's Ian Walker Lotus, Bill Moss's Gemini, Gardner's Brabham with Love's Cooper and Arundell's Lotus lurking just behind.
Brabham and 1982
In 1982 Patrese moved to Brabham and gained a lucky win at that year's Monaco Grand Prix when there were five leaders including Andrea de Cesaris and then Didier Pironi who both ran out of fuel whilst leading the final lap.
Brabham raced in Australian Formula Ford ( 1982 ), two seasons in British Formula Ford 2000, three seasons in British Formula Three ( runner-up in 1988 with four wins ) and won the first season of British Formula 3000 in 1989.
The FOCA team bosses claimed that their boycott of the 1982 San Marino Grand Prix was in response to the disqualification of Nelson Piquet's Brabham and Keke Rosberg's Williams from the 1982 Brazilian Grand Prix.
Brabham and season
In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.
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.
From the 1963 season, Brabham was partnered by American driver Dan Gurney, the pair now running in Australia's racing colours of green and gold.
Brabham works and customer cars took another three non-championship wins during the 1964 season.
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.
Although Brabham bought Cosworth DFV engines for the 1969 season, Rindt left to join Lotus.
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.
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.
After the 1955 New Zealand Grand Prix, Brabham was persuaded by Dean Delamont, competitions manager of the Royal Automobile Club in the United Kingdom, to try a season of racing in Europe, then the international centre of road racing.
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.
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.
With two wins each, Brabham, Moss and Ferrari's Tony Brooks were all capable of winning the championship at the final event of the season, the United States Grand Prix at Sebring.
During the 1965 season, Brabham started to consider retirement in order to manage his team.
Gurney took the lead driver role, and the team's first world championship win, while Brabham gave up his car to several other drivers towards the end of the season.
At the end of the season, Gurney announced his intention to leave and set up his own team and Brabham decided to carry on.
Brabham raced alongside his team mate Jochen Rindt during the 1968 season.
Partway through the 1969 season, Brabham suffered serious injuries to his foot in a testing accident.
After the 13th and final race of the season, the Mexican Grand Prix, Brabham did retire.
Brabham also drove for the works Matra team during the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season and won the final race of the season and his final top level race at the Paris 1000 km in October that year.
Brooks was competitive until the end of the season, but in the end he narrowly lost the championship to Jack Brabham with the rear-engined Cooper.
At the end of the season, manager Franco Lini quit and Ickx went to the Brabham team.
Meanwhile, Brabham won the Drivers ' Championship with Piquet, who drove the BT49 throughout the season.
Brabham and with
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 cars were subsequently known as Brabhams, with type numbers starting with BT for " Brabham Tauranac ".
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.
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