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 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.

Now, after the departure of Dan Gurney, he was the outright number two at Brabham behind Jack himself.

While Brabham himself scored the maiden victory for his car at the 1963 Solitude race, it was Gurney again who took the team's first win in a championship race, in 1964, again at Rouen.

It was Brabham himself who dropped out when a lead came adrift, handing second and third to Tony Maggs and a delighted Hill.

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.

Piers Courage finished second, driving a Frank Williams-prepared Brabham and out-racing Sir Jack himself and Jacky Ickx in the works Brabhams.

Surer re-established himself at Arrows, but his BMW connections saw him placed at Brabham for 1985, later moving back to Arrows when they acquired BMW power.

Brabham used new parts on his cars, which was not always helpful, so Denis Hulme collected more results and the title, followed by Brabham himself, who again won the constructors title.

Jochen Rindt, who had moved to Brabham at the wrong time, managed to score two poles and two podiums that year, while Brabham himself collected only two points.

' An unending list of former Champions was present for the weekend's vintage race, including Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham, and Juan Manuel Fangio himself.

The top six cars were all running very close together, and Rosberg soon found himself under increasing pressure from Laffite, who was in turn being hounded by Jean-Pierre Jarier's Ligier and Patrese's Brabham.

Rebaque himself moved to the Brabham team midway through the following season.

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.

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

Brabham works and customer cars took another three non-championship wins during the 1964 season.

The Brabham team took the constructors ' world championship in both years.

In 1948, Schonberg's wife persuaded him to stop racing and on his suggestion Brabham took over.

Brabham's driving on public roads was described as " safe as houses ", unlike many of his contemporaries — on the way back from the 1957 Pescara Grand Prix, passenger Tony Brooks took over driving after Brabham refused to overtake a long line of lorries.

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.

Brabham took a different approach to the problem of obtaining a suitable engine: he persuaded Australian engineering company Repco to develop a new 3-litre eight-cylinder engine for him.

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.

McLaren took the lead on the last lap of the race when his team-mate, Jack Brabham, ran out of fuel.

By virtue of Ferrari's Tony Brooks finishing 3rd, Brabham and Cooper took the drivers ' and constructor's championships.

Jack Brabham raised some eyebrows when he took sixth place at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a rear-engined Formula 1 Cooper.

Brabham took one of the Championship-winning Cooper T53 " Lowline " to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a test in 1960, then entered the famous 500-mile race in a larger, longer and offset car based on the 1960 F1 design.

In a nine-year period, the team took 16 Grand Prix wins, as Brabham and the team won back-to-back World Championships in 1959 and 1960.

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

As Brabham took the early lead into Turn One, ahead of Gurney and Moss, the Riverside radio and PA announcer could only call their names and utter, " Wow.

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.

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

New World Champion Clark took the final podium spot when he overtook Brabham, whose engine had been misfiring for much of the race.

On the second lap, Clark took the lead from Hill, as the two pulled away from Bandini, Spence, Gurney and Brabham.

Brabham took a nine second victory over British driver Mike Parkes driving a Ferrari 312.

The growing influence of engineer-drivers Jack Brabham and a couple of years behind him New Zealander Bruce McLaren would transform the race.

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.

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.

Moss won the pole battle, well ahead of Brabham and Gurney, who completed the front row.

Brabham, the just-deposed two-time World Champion, responded by taking the pole with a 1: 17. 0.

In the closing minutes of Saturday's session, Brabham grabbed the pole at 1: 08. 42, and Clark joined him on the front row with a 1: 08. 53.

Graham Hill was on pole and led away for the first lap until Jack Brabham took over.

Carlos Reutemann won from the pole, ahead of Brabham teammate Carlos Pace, while Emerson Fittipaldi's fourth place clinched his second World Championship in three years and the first for Team McLaren.

When the racing got under way, Carlos Pace led from pole in a Brabham 1 – 2 but was soon passed by Jody Scheckter and Carlos Reutemann after braking problems and Patrick Depailler soon climbed to 3rd.

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

Carlos Reutemann started on pole with the Brabham duo of John Watson and Niki Lauda second and third.

Following the banning of the " fan car ", Brabham were forced to revert back to their previous car again, but it did not deter them, with John Watson on pole and Niki Lauda starting third behind Mario Andretti's Lotus.

Nelson Piquet's Brabham led into the first corner from pole position, while Renault's Alain Prost passed Piquet's team mate Riccardo Patrese for second.

Piquet qualified second, behind Patrick Tambay ( Ferrari ) in pole position and ahead of Riccardo Patrese ( Brabham ), Arnoux and Prost in third, fourth and fifth.

Ayrton Senna was on pole by a full second over teammate Alain Prost with Thierry Boutsen sharing row two with the surprisingly competitive Brabham of Martin Brundle.

The Brabhams were fast — Rindt set pole position twice during the season — but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year having scored just ten points.

Pace duly took his first and only Formula One victory in front of his home crowd at the Brazilian Grand Prix, took his first pole position at the following race in South Africa, and also finished on the podium at Monaco and Silverstone, ending the season sixth overall in the Drivers ' Championship and helping Brabham to second in the Constructors ' Championship, behind Ferrari.

Niki Lauda, who had placed his Ferrari on pole for the previous year's race, again set the early pace, this time in a Brabham.

Nelson Piquet took pole, fastest lap and his first career race win to dominate the weekend in his gleaming blue and white Brabham.

The Italian took the only pole of his 69-race career, and the first for Alfa Romeo since 1951, by three-quarters of a second over a tightly-bunched group including Nelson Piquet's Brabham, Carlos Reutemann's Williams, Elio de Angelis ' Lotus and Jones in the second Williams.