During this period, teams using Brabham cars won championships in Formula Two and Formula Three.

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.

Formula 3000 replaced Formula Two, and was so named because the engines used initially were 3. 0 L ( 183ci ) Cosworth DFV engines made obsolete by popularization of 1. 5 L turbocharged engines in Formula One.

The first chassis from March, AGS and Ralt were developments of their existing 1984 Formula Two designs, although Lola's entry was based on and looked very much like an IndyCar.

Dallara briefly tried the series before moving up to Formula One, and AGS moved up from Formula Two but never recaptured their occasional success.

Brabham briefly and unsuccessfully campaigned his own second hand Formula One Maserati 250F during 1956, but his season was saved by drives for Cooper in sports cars and Formula Two, the junior category to Formula One.

The following year, he was Autocar Formula Two champion in a Cooper, while continuing to score minor points-scoring positions with the small-engined Coopers in the World Drivers Championship and driving for Aston Martin in Sportscars.

Brabham BT18-Honda of the type with which Jack Brabham dominated Formula Two in 1966

The season also saw the fruition of Brabham's relationship with Japanese engine manufacturer Honda in Formula Two.

Brabham won ten of the year's 16 European Formula Two races in his Brabham-Honda.

There was no European Formula Two championship that year, but Brabham won the Trophées de France, a championship consisting of six of the French Formula Two races.

For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2. 1 litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12.

The smaller Formula Two Stock Car Racing, previously known as " The Juniors " or " Junior Stock Cars ", is also very popular.

A. S. Roma had a team in the Superleague Formula race car series where teams are sponsored by football clubs.

* 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.

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.

By the 1961 Formula One season, the Lotus and Ferrari teams had developed the mid-engined approach further than Cooper.

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.

Formula One had a total global television audience of 527 million people during the course of the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship.

Throughout its history, the company has been noted for its continued participation in racing, especially in Formula One, where it has had great success.

In 1991 the performance of some Italian teams attracted attention-they had started using Agip's " jungle juice " Formula One fuel, worth an estimated 15 bhp — giving their drivers a significant advantage.

Cooper had no experience in GT or prototype and its performances in Formula One were declining.

He had a little more success in the non-championship Formula One races, where he ran his own private Coopers and took two victories.

However, by the mid-1990s Honda had withdrawn from Formula One, Senna had moved to Williams and the team went three seasons without a win.

Bruce was a works driver for the British Formula One team Cooper with whom he had won three Grands Prix and come second in the 1960 world championship.

Peugeot's final year as Prost's engine supplier in 2000 saw some optimism, Prost hiring his 1991 Ferrari team mate Jean Alesi to drive the lead car and German Nick Heidfeld, who had won the 1999 Formula 3000 championship, to partner him.

Minardi left the lower division at the end of 1984, although in 1986 a modified version of their final Formula Two car, the 283, was entered without success in two rounds of the Formula 3000 championship which had replaced Formula Two in 1985.

The team picked up in competitiveness and by 1989 had become top entrant for Pirelli's return to Formula One.

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

Since the demise of Group C ( where Japan and Germany both had successful series of their own ) Japan has largely gone its own way in sports car racing ; the Super GT series is for very highly modified production-based cars ; although prototypes are slowly returning to Japanese racing in the Japan Le Mans Challenge many of these ' prototypes ' are little more than rebodied Formula 3 cars ( although there has been a long Japanese tradition of such hybrids ; a Grand Champion series ran for many years with rebodied Formula 2 and Formula 3000 cars, rather similar to the second incarnation of Can-Am ).

However, mostly since 2000, due to the always increasing expenditures, several teams, including works teams from car makers and those teams with minimal support from the automotive industry, have become bankrupt or been bought out by companies wanting to establish a team within the sport ; these buyouts are also influenced by Formula One limiting the number of participant teams.

Rudolph Gore-Slimey ), has stolen his design for a race car engine and has become a world champion Formula One driver.

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.

One day, the trio discover that one of Theodore's former assistants, Rudolph Gore-Slimey (), has stolen his design for a race car engine, and has become a world champion Formula One driver.

Systems used in series such as Formula One have become advanced to the point where the potential lap time of the car can be calculated, and this time is what the driver is expected to meet.

If he wins the 24 Hours of Le Mans, he would become the first person since Graham Hill to win the Triple Crown of Motorsport, having previously won both the Indianapolis 500 and the Formula One World Championship.

Montoya has also become a crossover race winner by winning races ( starting in each case in his rookie year ) in Formula One, CART, IndyCar, Grand-AM and NASCAR equalling in that respect Mario Andretti's caliber of success ( except for the F1 World Championship ); And shares honors as well with Dan Gurney in being IndyCar / F1 / NASCAR race winner.

Stoddart realized his dream to become a Formula One team owner when Minardi shareholder Gabriele Rumi sold out to him shortly before the season began.

These were resurrected after the war, and formed the foundation of what was later to become Formula One, although the straight-eight supercharged Alfettas would dominate the early years of F1.

T-Square's song Truth would later become the theme for Japan's Formula One racing events.

Speed had become the first American in Formula One since Michael Andretti drove for McLaren in 1993.

This meant that Barrichello would be in Formula One for at least another season, and has since become the first driver in Formula One history to compete in over 300 Grands Prix.

On 13 February 2008, the management of the Sepang International Circuit announced its aim to become Formula One's second night race from after Singapore, following discussions about buying a floodlighting system.

And I like Mercedes – with them I got my first chance to test a Formula 1 car in 1996 and who knows how my Formula 1 career had turned out if I had accepted the McLaren Mercedes offer to become their test driver for 1997 .“

He was crowned British Formula Three champion in 1997 and went on to become ' rookie of the year ' in the 1999 IndyLights series in the USA.

Motorsports have become popular recently, especially following the inclusion of the Rally of Turkey to the FIA World Rally Championship calendar in 2003, and the inclusion of the Turkish Grand Prix to the Formula One racing calendar in 2005.

Since then, it has become the series regular opening round in February and a non championship event in December and has also hosted a round of the domestic series, Formula D. The venue has been expanded to accommodate 15, 000 spectators.

This inspired Surtees to expand to Formula One, and after having had a difficult season with BRM in ' 69, John decided to become an owner / driver again.

Recently Kerpen has become more famous as being the hometown of the catholic priest and social reformer Adolph Kolping and the Formula One racing drivers Michael Schumacher and his brother Ralf Schumacher as well as Wolfgang von Trips and reggae artist Patrice Bart-Williams.