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.

Brabham finished the race 12th, but all cars behind him retired.

Brabham retired early with an electrical failure, and Ratzenberger finished 11th, last of the cars still running.

Moss led the race from the start and built a gap of ten seconds over Brabham, but after only five laps he retired with a broken gearbox.

Inheriting the lead when Lorenzo Bandini and Brabham retired, Clark finished a full lap ahead of Austrian Jochen Rindt, and recorded the ill-fated H16's only win.

On lap 41, Brabham retired, followed by Dan Gurney on lap 44.

On lap 22 Beltoise, who in the meantime went into fourth, retired with transmission problems ; on the same lap Brabham passed Amon into second place.

Jack Brabham retired from third place in his final Grand Prix when the engine blew on lap 53.

Pole sitter and reigning world champion Niki Lauda, in his first season with Brabham, retired with engine failure and the Ferraris of Carlos Reutemann and Gilles Villeneuve exited on lap 55.

With Jabouille having retired, Lauda finished third ahead of John Watson ( Brabham ), Carlos Reutemann ( Ferrari ), Jacques Laffite ( Ligier-Matra ) and Patrick Tambay ( McLaren-Ford ).

Riccardo Patrese in his Brabham BT56 was now holding second place but he retired when his alternator failed on lap 57.

At the start, Patrese got ahead of Senna while Mansell had a poor start and retired after being hit by Martin Brundle's Brabham.

Triple champion Jack Brabham retired at the end of the year.

Moss retired from the race, the inaugural United States Grand Prix, giving Brabham the lead.

After this race, Hesnault retired from motor racing, having suffered a particularly heavy crash in testing shortly before parting company with Brabham.

He qualified 19th, but retired his Brabham after 10 laps with an oil leak, while lying 16th.

By the Austrian GP, he was disgusted with the whole mess and left the team, which subsequently folded-the Martini & Rossi money would go to Brabham in 1974, the Pederzani brothers retired from competition, and Amon finished the season guesting at Tyrrell.

Two of the cars retired but one XJ220, driven by John Nielsen, David Brabham and David Coulthard took the checkered flag to take a class win, beating Porsche by 2 laps.

The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia.

John Arthur Brabham was born on 2 April 1926 in Hurstville, then a commuter town outside Sydney, Australia.

Brabham competed in Australia and New Zealand until early 1955, taking " a long succession of victories ", including the 1953 Queensland Road Racing championship.

He has received several other honours and in 2011, the suburb of Brabham in Perth, Western Australia, was named after him.

With the help of Brabham owner Bernie Ecclestone, Patrese was drafted in to replace Mansell for the season's finale in Australia.

A. Brabham ( Australia ) wins World Drivers ' Champion, driving an MRD-Repco.

* Formula One – Jack Brabham ( Australia ) repeats as World Drivers ' Champion, in a Cooper T51-Climax.

* Formula One – John A. Brabham ( Australia ) is World Drivers ' Champion, in a Cooper T51-Climax.

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 '.

Brabham, who was born in Wimbledon, London, spent his childhood in Australia.

Early in 1955 Tony helped to established Australia ’ s first all Australian overseas racing team called ‘ The Kangaroo Stable ’ that included racing drivers such as Jack Brabham, Tom Sulman, David McKay, Les Cosh and Dick Cobden but after the tragic 1955 Le Mans race many events in Europe were cancelled leading to the Stable disbanding later that year.

Gary Brabham ( born 29 March 1961 in Wimbledon, London ) is a former professional racing driver from Australia and a British Formula 3000 champion.

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.

One month after his 18th birthday on 19 May 1944 Brabham enlisted into the Royal Australian Air Force ( RAAF ).

Brabham started racing after an American friend, Johnny Schonberg, persuaded him to watch a midget car race.

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'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.

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.

More podium places were followed by a win in the British Grand Prix at Aintree after Brabham preserved his tyres to the end of the race, enabling him to finish ahead of Moss who had to pit to replace worn tyres.

Brabham continued his involvement in motorsport after his retirement.

Brabham and Betty divorced in 1994 after 43 years.

But the team was in flux after the retirements of Sir Jack Brabham and then Ron Tauranac's sale to Bernie Ecclestone ; Hill did not settle there.

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

Vaive had a career as a professional hockey coach in the East Coast Hockey League and the American Hockey League after his retirement from the NHL, serving as a head coach in 1993 with the expansion South Carolina Stingrays, winning two division titles ( 1995 and 1997 ), a conference championship ( 1997 ), and under his watch became the first ECHL coach in history to win both the Brabham Cup and Kelly Cup in the same season, in the 1996 – 97 season.

Bartlett, Baxter, Brabham, and Traintor all drew sketches of the monstrous sight shortly after their sightings.

At the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, he replaced Niki Lauda at Brabham after the Austrian abruptly quit the team and Formula One.

Australian driver Jack Brabham was over a minute behind in third position driving a Cooper T51 for the factory Cooper racing team after stopping to get new goggles as the circuit broke up.

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

Jack Brabham was glad just to be at the circuit, after he was unable to find a rental car or a taxi at the airport in Elmira, twenty miles ( 32 km ) away, and ended up hitchhiking to the track with his baggage and racing gear!

The race, the first of the new three-litre engine regulation era where starters reached 20 cars, was won for the third time by Australian driver Jack Brabham in his Brabham BT19, his second win in succession after winning the French Grand Prix two weeks earlier.

On lap two, Gurney moved past Clark for second place, and soon after, Hulme moved ahead of Amon and then his team leader, Brabham.

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.

Argentine racer Carlos Reutemann was declared third in his Brabham BT44B, a lap behind the race leaders after a penalty was given to Jean-Pierre Jarier.