After more than three hours of racing, the exhausted Brabham, who " hated to be beaten ", pushed the car to the line to finish sixth.

Brabham ran out of fuel on the last lap but pushed his car across the line to finish fourth.

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 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.

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

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.

Brabham was the more successful driver and went to the United Kingdom in 1955 to further his racing career.

The Brabham team continued in Formula One, winning two further drivers ' championships in the early 1980s under Bernie Ecclestone's ownership.

He won the Championship by five points from Brabham, and a further five from Jim Clark.

The rear-wheel-drive Ford Lotus Cortina and Ford Escort 1300GT and RS1600, along with the Vauxhall Viva GT and Brabham SL / 90 HB in the late 1960s opened up this market still further in Britain.

Carbon composite rotors ( introduced by the Brabham team in 1976 ) are used instead of steel or cast iron because of their superior frictional, thermal, and anti-warping properties, as well as significant weight savings.

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.

The popularity of the Tasman formulae was directly responsible for 1966s ' return to power ' in Formula One, and having spent years developing with Repco the Brabham cars and eventually the Oldsmobile based Repco V8s in his Brabhams in the Tasman series gave Jack Brabham the opportunity to unexpectedly dominate Formula One with a ready-proven lightweight car that left Ferrari and the British ' garagistes ' struggling with their heavy, technically fragile or underpowered cars until the appearance of the Lotus-Cosworth late in 1967.

Brabham also had a foot in the turbo camp, as they had been developing a car powered by a BMW turbocharged engine since the previous year, but at the start of the year mainly relied on their older car powered by the naturally aspirated Cosworth DFV engine.

The company gained fame for developing the engines which powered the Brabham Formula One cars in which Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme won the 1966 and 1967 World Championship of Drivers titles respectively.

In 1959 and 1960, Brabham won the Formula One world drivers ' championship in Cooper's revolutionary mid-engined cars.

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.

The 40-year-old Brabham was annoyed by press stories about his age and, in a highly uncharacteristic stunt, at the Dutch Grand Prix he hobbled to his car on the starting grid before the race wearing a long false beard and leaning on a cane before going on to win the race.

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.

Along with Moss, Brooks is considered one the best drivers never to have been World Champion and both Moss and three-time World Champion Jack Brabham were known to have thought highly of his ability.

In the years 1986 and 1987, the version M12 / 13 / 1 was tilted sideways by 72 ° for use in the extremely low Brabham BT55, unfortunately the design was not successful, probably due to cooling issues in the tight compartment.

The Brabham Formula One team was sponsored by Parmalat through some of its most successful years in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

David Brabham ( born 5 September 1965 ) is an Australian racing driver and one of the most successful and experienced specialists in sports car racing.

His career total of three points, scored in 1972 and 1973 with Brabham, made him the most successful sibling of a Formula One World Champion until the arrival of Ralf Schumacher in 1997.

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.

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 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.

Championships were held from 1956 to 1960, 1964 to 1967 and again in 1972 .. Stirling Moss, Jack Brabham, Jim Clark and Niki Lauda won titles.

The engine was subsequently developed into a full-sized 2. 5 L Formula One unit and Jack Brabham won the World Championship of Drivers in both 1959 and 1960 driving FPF powered Coopers.

The Grand Prix circuit was constructed in 1959, and the track hosted its first major motor racing event in August 1960, the non-championship Silver City Trophy Formula One race, won by Jack Brabham.

The race was won by the 1959 and 1960 world champion, Australian driver Jack Brabham driving his Brabham BT19.

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.

The race was the third in succession to be won by Australian driver, 1959 and 1960 world champion, Jack Brabham in his Brabham BT19.

Brabham lapped the field on his way to his second Dutch Grand Prix victory to add to his win in 1960.

The race was won by 1959 and 1960 World Champion Jack Brabham driving his Brabham BT19, his fourth win in succession.

The 1960 running was a race of attrition, with only four cars finishing within 5 laps of winner Jack Brabham.