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.

It had a 2. 7-litre engine producing 268 bhp compared to the 4. 5-litre, 430 bhp engines used by the front-engined roadsters driven by all the other entrants, but Brabham ran as high as third before finishing ninth.

Reinforced carbon discs and pads inspired by aircraft braking systems such as those used on Concorde were introduced in Formula One by Brabham in conjunction with Dunlop in 1976.

In, Brabham temporarily withdrew from the sport and BMW withdrew its official backing from the engines, which were still used by the Arrows team under the Megatron badge.

Lotus used the concept of positive aerodynamic downforce, through the addition of wings, at a Tasman Formula race in early 1968, although Ferrari and Brabham were the first to use them in a Formula One race at the 1968 Belgian Grand Prix.

The Alfa Romeo flat-V12 powered Brabham BT45 and Brabham BT45B were used for the 1976 and 1977 seasons and the Martini colours appeared on a red rosso corsa background.

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.

Lotus, McLaren, Matra, Brabham, March, Surtees, Tyrrell, Hesketh, Lola, Williams, Penske, Wolf and Ligier are just some of the teams to have used the DFV.

The Oldsmobile engine block formed the basis of the Repco 3-liter engine used by Brabham to win the 1966 and 1967 Formula One world championships.

Surplus engine blocks of the Oldsmobile ( 6 bolt per cylinder ) version of this engine formed the basis of the Australian Formula One Repco V8 used by Brabham to win the 1966 Formula One world championship.

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.

For 1969, the works Brabham team and most of the private Brabham entries also used the ubiquitous Cosworth powerplant.

A similar suction fan was used in Formula 1 eight years later for the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix, by the Brabham BT46B, but was banned soon after.

As a result of its similarity to Formula 2 and Formula 3 in terms of chassis regulations, Formula Atlantic typically used chassis closely related to these cars — with performance somewhere in between the two — so most of the manufacturers were familiar from those classes, particularly the likes of Brabham, Lotus, March, Chevron early on, with Ralt and then Reynard later.

Although Brabham bought Cosworth DFV engines for the 1969 season, Rindt left to join Lotus.

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.

This engine was the result of a deal between BMW and Brabham, which resulted in the team's chassis being powered by BMW engines from until, a period in which Nelson Piquet won the championship driving a Brabham BT52-BMW.

Bernie Ecclestone, the team principal of Brabham, signed a deal with BMW for a supply of BMW M12 | M12 / 13 engines in 1980.

BMW thus negotiated an exclusive supply of M12 / 13 engines to the Brabham team.

At one press conference at which Sarich presented the engine, automotive engineer Phil Irving ( designer of the Vincent Motorcycle and Brabham Formula One engines ) pointed out a number of technical difficulties.

In general terms, however, the engines were not powerful enough to compete with the 2. 5-litre machinery and it was not until the 2. 5-litre version of the FPF arrived in 1959 that Jack Brabham was able to win the World Championship in a Cooper-Climax.

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.

There were many announcements prior to the race, Brabham announced they would use Yamaha engines for 1991, Footwork also announced a Porsche engine deal for 1991 and they also retained both drivers in Alex Caffi and Michele Alboreto.

* The famous old Brabham team had missed 1988 after a change of ownership in late 1987, and the new team, running Judd V8 engines and piloted by Stefano Modena and Martin Brundle, debuted in Brazil.

* Brabham retained their BMW engines along with reigning World Champion Nelson Piquet.

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.

The following season, BMW supplied engines to the ATS team ; the factory-backed Brabham took four victories on its way to Piquet's championship win.

Brabham pushed for further advances, and played a significant role in developing Cooper's highly successful 1960 T53 " lowline " car, with input from his friend Tauranac.

Brabham was involved with cars and mechanics from an early age.

On his 20th birthday, 2 April 1946, Brabham was discharged from the RAAF at the rank of Leading Aircraftman ( LAC ).

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.

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.

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.

Brabham helped design the more advanced Cooper T53, including advice from Tauranac.

Brabham had identified a supply of suitable engine blocks obtained from Oldsmobile's aluminium alloy 215 engine and persuaded the company that an engine could be designed around the block, largely using existing components.

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.

Brabham says that he " never really wanted " the move, but his wife hoped their sons could grow up away from motorsport.

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

In fact, it was not until the Indianapolis 500 was removed from the Formula One calendar that European entries made their return, with Australian Jack Brabham driving his slightly modified F1 Cooper in the 1961 race.

This time, apart from the standard and 90 stages of tune, there was also, for a brief time, a Brabham SL / 90 HB that was purported to have been developed with the aid of world racing champion Jack Brabham.

The Brabham model differed from the standard Viva SL / 90 in having a different cam-shaft, uprated suspension with anti-roll bars, different exhaust manifolds, and a unique twin-carb manifold, as well as differing interior trim.

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

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 '.