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* 1942 – Frank Williams, English founder and team principal of the WilliamsF1 Formula One racing team
* Adrian Sutil ( born 1983 ), German Formula One racing driver
* 1963 – Mike Gascoyne, British engineer, designer of Formula One cars
: See also: Aston Martin Racing, List of Formula One constructors
** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor
* Bernie Ecclestone was involved in a political scandal when it transpired he had given the Labour Party a million pound donation-which raised eyebrows when the incoming Labour government changed its policy to allow Formula One to continue being sponsored by tobacco manufacturers.
Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.
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.
The team won two more Formula One drivers ' championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet.
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.
In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brabham name.
There he started driving for the Cooper Car Company works team and by 1958 had progressed with them to Formula One, the highest category of open wheel racing defined by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ), motor sport's world governing body.
In 1959 and 1960, Brabham won the Formula One world drivers ' championship in Cooper's revolutionary mid-engined cars.
By the 1961 Formula One season, the Lotus and Ferrari teams had developed the mid-engined approach further than Cooper.
Motor Racing Developments initially concentrated on making money by building cars for sale to customers in lower formulae, so the new car for the Formula One team was not ready until partway through the 1962 Formula One season.
The Brabham BT3, the first Brabham Formula One design.
The FIA doubled the Formula One engine capacity limit to 3 litres for the 1966 season and suitable engines were scarce.
Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm Repco, which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 engine blocks from the defunct American Oldsmobile F85 road car project, and other off the shelf parts.
At the French Grand Prix at Reims-Gueux, Jack Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name.
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 ).
Graham Hill took his final Formula One win in the unique " lobster claw ". Tauranac signed double world champion Graham Hill and young Australian Tim Schenken to drive for the 1971 season.
Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

Formula and switched
Michael and his younger brother Ralf Schumacher are the only brothers to win races in Formula One, and they were the first brothers to finish 1st and 2nd in the same race, in Montreal in 2001, and there again ( in switched order ) in 2003.
In 1977, he won the European Super Vee championship, and switched to Formula Three.
In 1960, at the age of 26, Surtees switched from motorcycles to cars full time, making his Formula 1 debut racing for Lotus in the Monaco Grand Prix in Monte Carlo.
In 2012, Vinnie switched to Ludwig Drums and Paiste Formula 602 Cymbals.
Berger later acted as an advisor to Bruno Senna, Ayrton's nephew, who made his Formula One debut with the HRT F1 Team in the 2010 World Championship, and subsequently switched to Williams.
In Europe, Formula Ford switched to the Zetec, but American Formula Ford continued to be Kent-powered until 2010 ; the SCCA having approved the use of the Honda L15A i-VTEC for Formula F.
After his injuries had healed, he switched to Formula Atlantic, won three races in 1977, and won the Irish Formula Atlantic Championship in 1978.
For 2001, Pizzonia switched to the Formula 3000 series, winning one race and finishing sixth in the championship.
In 1988, he switched to the Formula 3000 series, but met some success.
Initially the HWM cars were designed to compete in the Formula Two class, but when the World Championship switched to Formula Two regulations in HWM cars became eligible to compete in the Grand Prix events.
For the 2012 season, Grosjean moved to the Lotus ( formerly Renault ) Formula One team, and Varhaug switched to the Auto GP World Series ; they were replaced by series veteran Davide Valsecchi and reigning British F3 champion Felipe Nasr.
In 1986 he switched to Formula Ford 1600 and subsequently to Australian Formula 2, winning the 1987 Australian Drivers ' Championship in that category.
He was a Formula One presenter for the British broadcaster ITV until the end of the 2008 season when the TV broadcasting rights switched to the BBC.
When the World Championship switched to the slower Formula Two regulations, the organisers decided to abandon formula racing in favour of further sportscar events.
Despite the success of the endurance format, though, when the Formula One engine capacity limit was raised to 2. 5 litres from 1954 the Circuito di Pescara was quickly switched back to single-seat rules.
At the end of the 1955 Formula 1 season he switched to Ferrari.
Following a business arrangement with Alessandro de Tomaso, Williams switched to a newly-designed De Tomaso chassis for the 1970 Formula One season.
He began in karting in 1978 and switched to cars when he was 20, into Formula Atlantic.
After success in Formula Junior in the mid-1960s, Niemann switched to enduro motor cycle racing, winning the South African championship in 1979.

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