Gurney got by Brabham and Ginther and briefly took third place, but on lap 11, Ginther retook the spot behind his teammate when Gurney slid half off the track, inches from the Armco, on a patch of oil in the Loop.

Before the race, Brabham announced that then unknown Brazilian driver Nelson Piquet, who had raced unsuccessfully earlier in the season with Ensign and BS Fabrications, would be joining them in a third car, alongside regular drivers Niki Lauda and John Watson.

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.

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 ).

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.

In 1966 Brabham became the first-and still the only-man to win the Formula One world championship driving one of his own cars.

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.

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 left Cooper in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

At the end of the season, Gurney announced his intention to leave and set up his own team and Brabham decided to carry on.

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 confirmed his third championship at the Italian Grand Prix and became the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car that carried his own name.

Stoddart returned to racing in 1996 when he purchased ten old Tyrrell F1 cars, a Minardi, a Benetton, and a Brabham for his own use.

Brabham, who first won the Grand Prix in 1955 in an obsolete sports-bodied Cooper T40 Bristol he had brought home from his first foray into English racing, would test new developments for Cooper during the European winter, beginning a flood of Cooper-Climax Grand Prix machinery into Australia and New Zealand before Brabham started building his own cars, as well as the appearance of Lotus chassis as well, finally killing off the Australian ' specials '.

In all, he earned two wins ( in 1964 ) and ten podiums ( including five consecutive in 1965 ) for Brabham before leaving to start his own team.

With his victory in the Eagle-Weslake at the 1967 Belgian Grand Prix, Gurney earned the distinction of being the only driver in history to score maiden Grand Prix victories for three different manufacturers: Porsche, Brabham and his own All-American Racers.

In Friday's qualifying session, Graham Hill, Hill's BRM teammate Richie Ginther, Clark and Jack Brabham ( using his own BT3 model for just the second time ) all bettered the previous year's lap record of 1: 18. 2.

It was his first win since establishing his own team, Brabham Racing Organisation and the first win for the Australian developed Repco V8 engine.

When the Italian had to retire due to a broken throttle linkage, Brabham took first place at the finish – his first win since the 1960 Portuguese Grand Prix and the first driver to win a championship Grand Prix in his own car.

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.

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 was about to hold off the onrushing Rindt ( the eventual 1970 F1 champion ) when his front wheels locked in a skid on the sharp right turn only yards from the finish and he ended up second.

While leading at the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch, he ran out of fuel at Clearways and Rindt passed him to take the win while Brabham coasted to the finish in second place.

Brabham married his second wife, Margaret in 1995 and they live on the Gold Coast, Queensland.

For the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, the Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs finished first and second overall, led by drivers Marc Gené, David Brabham, and Alexander Wurz.

Surtees's debut with Ferrari's new F1 car was at the 1966 BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, where he qualified and finished a close second behind Jack Brabham's 3-litre Brabham BT19.

Ferrari finished second to Brabham-Repco in the manufacturers ' championship and Surtees finished second to Jack Brabham in the drivers ' championship.

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.

He was the first driver to win a Formula One World Championship with the Williams team, becoming the 1980 World Drivers ' Champion and the second Australian to do so following triple World Champion Sir Jack Brabham.

A third place at Reims in France, a second behind Brabham at Brands Hatch, and the fastest lap at Zandvoort, before ignition problems put paid to his race there.

Brabham won the Grand Prix three times, McLaren twice, Clark twice, the second was his last major victory before his untimely death, winning a highly entertaining battle with Chris Amon at the 1968 Australian Grand Prix at Sandown Raceway.

The win was the first of the season for Scuderia Ferrari and moved Brooks into second in the championship pointscore, five points behind Brabham.

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.

Wins in France and Germany had given Tony Brooks a healthy second place in the championship behind Jack Brabham.

Moss needed to finish first or second and ahead of Brabham, while for Brooks winning would not necessarily be enough.

** First, with Moss second without fastest lap or lower and Brabham third or lower

Brabham took the lead from Moss while his teammate McLaren followed in second for most of the race.

Brabham waved him on frantically, and McLaren resumed speed just soon enough to hold his lead through the last turn and cross the line less than a second ahead of Trintignant, who had set the race's fastest lap only three laps from the end.

Jack Brabham, who had already clinched his second consecutive World Championship a few weeks prior in Portugal, was back with teammate Bruce McLaren in the factory Cooper-Climaxes.

Graham Hill's BRM, a tenth quicker than the other 4-cylinder cars, was alongside Brabham on the front row, a second slower than the Australian.