* 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.

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.

Tauranac, an engineer at heart, started to feel his Formula One budget of around £ 100, 000 was a gamble he could not afford to take on his own and began to look around for an experienced business partner.

Although it could be reconciled with Cyril's Formula of Reunion, it was not compatible in its wording with Cyril's Twelve Anathemas.

Before its merger with HP, it also sponsored the Williams Formula One team when it was still powered by BMW engines.

The Dutch Grand Prix was a round of the World Drivers Championship for the first time not a Formula One race, as the World Championship was for Formula Two cars that year and in 1953.

There was no GP at Zandvoort in 1954 ( a sportscar-event replaced it ), but 1955 saw the first proper Formula One race counting for the World Championship.

A1GP bankrupted before its fifth season and the Dutch round was replaced with Superleague Formula

The event was part of the pre-Second World War European Championship and was included in the first Formula One World Championship in 1950.

A draft specification for The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System was completed by mid-1954.

The Formula 3000 International Championship was a motor racing series created by the Fédération Internationale de l ' Automobile ( FIA ) in 1985 to become the final preparatory step for drivers hoping to enter the Formula One championship.

Formula Two had become too expensive, and was dominated by works-run cars with factory engines ; the hope was that Formula 3000 would offer quicker, cheaper, more open racing.

The Grand Prix will continue until at least 2015 after securing a new contract with Formula One Management.

In 1966, a new 3-litre formula was created for Formula One.

Although the original organisation went into administration in 1992, the name was attached to a German company selling cars and accessories in 2008, and an unsuccessful attempt to set up a new Formula One team the following year.

The McLaren M23, designed by Gordon Coppuck, was the team's new car for the 1973 Formula One season.

Caliri designed the M184, the team's prototype Formula One car ( intended as a dual purpose design for the new Formula 3000 ) around Alfa Romeo's V8 turbocharged engine but when engineer Carlo Chiti left Alfa Romeo to found Motori Moderni, Minardi became the only customer for his new V6 engine design.

In 2006, Paul Stoddart declared his intention to enter a new team called ' European Minardi F1 Team Ltd ' into Formula One beginning in 2008.

Needing money to shore up his new business, in 1982 Lauda returned to racing, feeling that he still had a career in Formula One.

Although not widely known, sports-prototypes ( along with Formula 1 cars ) are responsible for introducing the most numbers of new technologies and ideas to motorsport, including rear-wings, ground effect ' venturi ' tunnels, fan-assisted aerodynamics and dual-shift gearboxes.

Outside Formula One, Villeneuve has taken on several new careers: in sportscar racing, racing for Peugeot in the 2007 and 2008 24 Hours of Le Mans, jumping to NASCAR in August 2007 and racing as an invited driver in the Argentinian Top Race V6 series and the Australian based International V8 Supercars Championship.

For Christmas 2011, a new single seater mod came available. The F2 1967 Mod provide new accurate cars shapes, drivers, car sounds and physics. The Formula 2 physics were intended to get close racing online, with most of the cars sharing the same Ford Cosworth FVA 1600cc engine. Despite this, as others GPL mods, the F2 mod benefit of the extended 11 different cars slots with their individual handling. In 1967, drivers took part in no less than 23 Formula 2 races.

The new owners also pledged to refurbish Loftus Road and use their experience in Formula One to increase sponsorship revenues.

Cosworth returned to Formula One in 2010 as an engine supplier to Williams and three new teams ( Hispania Racing F1 Team, Lotus Racing and Virgin Racing ), with first units shipped in January.

The final evolution of the Cosworth-Kent, in 1965, was the MAE, when new rules were introduced in Formula 3 allowing engines.

In 1966, Colin Chapman ( Lotus Cars founder and principal of Team Lotus ) persuaded Ford to bankroll Keith Duckworth's design for a new lightweight Formula One engine.

In Formula One, a new DFV-based design was introduced for the new normally aspirated rules in 1987.