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.

He scored points for 9 out of 10 teams he raced for: McLaren, Alfa Romeo, Brabham, Rial, Tyrrell, Jordan, Ligier, Scuderia Italia and Sauber ; failing to do so for Minardi only.

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.

Brabham closed the gap between them, and when he grabbed fourth place from the American on lap 69, he claimed the first Championship points ever scored by the Brabham make.

Carlos Reutemann scored his best result to that time on his home race finishing third in his Brabham BT44B.

Williams clinched the 1981 Constructors ' Championship with one race left, as the two points scored by the Brabham team were not sufficient to allow them to catch Williams in the final race.

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.

At the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans, Brabham scored a fourth in the GT1 category ( ninth overall ) driving for Russian Age Racing.

Moving to Cooper-Climax for the 1959 season alongside Jack Brabham and Bruce McLaren, he scored two podium finishes-a 3rd place at the Dutch Grand Prix, and a career-best 2nd at the Portuguese Grand Prix.

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.

Brabham scored 2 poles early in the year, but then the new Ford Cosworth V8 appeared in the Lotus 49, setting a new pace with its at 9, 000 rpm, with Jim Clark and Graham Hill taking all poles in the rest of the season.

As the Lotus was still fragile, the Brabham pilots scored 2 wins each.

His Grand Prix career was then virtually over, though he had three more one-off drives, all at the Italian Grand Prix – a works Brabham in 1965, a Reg Parnell-entered Ferrari in 1966, and a works Lotus in 1967, when he would have scored a point but for a blown engine.

Tyrrell's Michele Alboreto scored his second Grand Prix win and first points of the season, after inheriting the lead from Nelson Piquet with just nine laps to go when the Brabham driver stopped to replace a deflating rear tire.

In 2011, the Aces dominated the entire season, having the best record in the league, and leading the league in points scored, winning the Brabham Cup.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Brabham introduced innovations such as the Gordon Murray designed " fan car "— which won its only race before being withdrawn — in-race refuelling, carbon brakes, and hydropneumatic suspension.

Brabham describes Tauranac as " absolutely the only bloke I'd have gone into partnership with ".

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.

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 ).

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.

In 1957, Brabham drove another mid-engined Cooper, again only fitted with a 2-litre engine, at the Monaco Grand Prix.

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.

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.

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.

The Brabham Torana was still available, in two-door form only.

Moss ' win closed the championship gap to only 5½ points behind Jack Brabham with Brooks eight points behind Brabham.

The field featured works Coopers for Brabham and 22-year-old Bruce McLaren of New Zealand ; blue Rob Walker-entered Coopers for Moss and Frenchman Maurice Trintignant ; four Ferraris — three in Italian red for Englishmen Brooks and Cliff Allison, and German Wolfgang von Trips ; one in American white and blue for Phil Hill ; front-engined Lotuses for Innes Ireland and Alan Stacey ; and, incomprehensibly for the European road-racing elite, the number 1 Kurtis-Offy Midget of USAC National Champion Rodger Ward, the only American-built and American-driven entry.

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.

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.

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.

While all but the two Porsche entries had Climax engines, only Jack Brabham of the factory Cooper team, and Stirling Moss, in Rob Walker's privately-entered Lotus, had the newest developmental V8 version available to them.

After taking on water and returning to the race, Brabham completed only seven more laps before retiring.

Jo Siffert was third in the Rob Walker-entered Brabham, ahead of Americans Richie Ginther and Walt Hansgen, with Trevor Taylor in sixth, scoring his only point of the season.

Parkes only just defeated New Zealand racer Denny Hulme in his Brabham BT20, the pair separated by less than half a second.

While series points leader Jack Brabham stopped with an oil leak in his Brabham BT19 on lap seven, he secured his third world championship, and the unique achievement of becoming world champion in a car of his own make, when his only remaining points rival John Surtees stopped with a fuel leak in his Cooper T81 24 laps later.

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

Brabham finished third or fourth in the constructors ' championship for three years running, but poor reliability marred promising performances on several occasions.

Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top three finishes, but did not finish half the races.

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

Despite his three titles, and although John Cooper considered him " the greatest ", Formula One journalist Adam Cooper wrote in 1999 that Brabham is never listed among the Top 10 of all time, noting that " Stirling Moss and Jim Clark dominated the headlines when Jack was racing, and they still do ".

Brabham and Betty had three sons together: Geoff, Gary and David.

All three became involved in motorsport, with support from Brabham in their early years.

Geoff was an Indycar and sportscar racer who won five North American sportscar championships as well as the 24 Hours of Le Mans, while David competed in Formula One for the Brabham team and has also won the Le Mans race as well as three Japanese and North American sportscar titles.

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.

In addition to winning the inaugural ECHL champion in the playoffs, the Nailers hold the record with three regular season Brabham Cup titles.

In 1996 – 97, the Stingrays won both the ECHL championship Kelly Cup ( defeating the Louisiana IceGators four games to one ) and the Brabham Cup ( awarded to the team with the best regular season record ), becoming the first ECHL team and one of three overall to win both a regular season and postseason championship in the same year.

In 1992, he won the Le Mans 24 Hours with the Peugeot 905 driven by Derek Warwick, Yannick Dalmas and Mark Blundell and, in 1993, again at Le Mans, three 905 cars driven by Geoff Brabham, Christophe Bouchut and Eric Hélary swept the field with a 1-2-3 victory.

It was the first of three world championships for Brabham, and the first for an Australian, for Cooper and for a rear-engined car.

Brabham was also passed by Brooks for third place, but the final three cars still running were several laps behind.

Brabham now led the championship on 12 points, two ahead of Ferrari driver Lorenzo Bandini and three ahead of BRM's Jackie Stewart and Ferrari's John Surtees.

Jack Brabham was odds-on favourite for the Championship – only John Surtees could stop him and only then by winning all three remaining races.

Rindt now led a group of three Brabhams, with Courage ahead of the two works entries of Ickx and Brabham, by 37 seconds.

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.

Driving a Tyrrell 007 he took over the lead of the race from Carlos Pace on lap three and took a three second win over over the Brabham BT44B of Carlos Reutemann.