* 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.

* 2006 – Clay Regazzoni, Swiss Formula One driver ( b. 1939 )

* 1971 – Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver

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

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.

* 1980 – Jenson Button, English Formula One driver

Sir John Arthur " Jack " Brabham, AO, OBE ( born 2 April 1926 ) is an Australian former racing driver who was Formula One champion in, and.

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.

* 1982 – Timo Glock, German Formula One driver

Michael Schumacher (; born 3 January 1969 ) is a German Formula One racing driver, currently driving for the Mercedes team.

In 2002 he became the only driver in Formula One history to finish in the top three in every race of a season and then also broke the record for most consecutive podium finishes.

According to the official Formula One website he is " statistically the greatest driver the sport has ever seen ".

In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Schumacher as " the second-greatest Formula One driver who ever lived ", just behind Ayrton Senna, and the most complete driver, just ahead of Senna.

As of the 2012 Formula One season Schumacher is the only driver left competing in Formula 1 to have raced against Ayrton Senna and Alain Prost, whose record of total career wins he beat with his 52nd win at the 2001 Belgian Grand Prix.

After one Mercedes-funded race for the Jordan Formula One team Schumacher signed as a driver for the Benetton Formula One team in 1991.

This was unusual for a young driver: most of Schumacher's contemporaries would compete in Formula 3000 on the way to Formula One.

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.

By this time, Billy Currie and Dave Formula had also left the band ( though they received a " special thanks " credit on the album sleeve for their input ), leaving only Strange and Egan from the original line-up along with newer musicians Steve & Gary Barnacle and Andy Barnett.

The DOHC head was developed by Chrysler with input from the Chrysler-Lamborghini team that developed the Chrysler / Lamborghini Formula 1 V12 engine in the early 1990s.

The move paid off handsomely, and with a lot of work and input by Jenzer Motorsport Ryan won the championship by 40 points, and showing competitively in the Formula Renault Masters event at Donington in October 2003-Winning the first of the 2 races, and finishing 3rd in the 2nd ( he was leading the race, but a backmarker caused a red flag and on countback Ryan was classified 3rd ).