Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.

To meet that aim, Brabham and Tauranac set up Motor Racing Developments Ltd. ( MRD ), deliberately avoiding the use of either man ’ s name.

Brabham had a poor season, scoring only four points, and — having run his own private Coopers in non-championship events during 1961 — left the company in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

The Brabham Racing Organisation entered the " works " cars until 1968

The team were second in the constructors ' championship, aided by second places at Monaco and Watkins Glen scored by Piers Courage, driving a Brabham for the Frank Williams Racing Cars privateer squad.

Brabham competed in Australia and New Zealand until early 1955, taking " a long succession of victories ", including the 1953 Queensland Road Racing championship.

Brabham and Tauranac set up a company called Motor Racing Developments Ltd. ( MRD ), which initially produced customer racing cars, while Brabham himself continued to race for Cooper.

Brabham left Cooper in 1962 to drive for his own team: the Brabham Racing Organisation, using cars built by Motor Racing Developments.

Gurney was the first driver hired by Jack Brabham to drive with him for the Brabham Racing Organisation.

Following the demise of the team, he joined Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team at Weybridge, where he would stay for the following decade, becoming chief mechanic for the World Drivers ' Championship successes of Nelson Piquet in and and later rising to chief engineer, while Nick went on to open a Motor Racing spares shop near the Brands Hatch circuit.

Brabham dominated the race, leading all 75 laps to win by 22 seconds over British driver Stirling Moss driving a British Racing Partnership entered BRM P25.

Harry Schell finished fourth for the Owen Racing Organisation BRM team a lap behind Brabham.

It was his first win since establishing his own team, Brabham Racing Organisation and the first win for the Australian developed Repco V8 engine.

In pre-qualifying, the Life Racing Engines team saw their car splutter to a halt 400 metres after exiting the pits, Gary Brabham claimed the mechanics were on strike and refused to put oil in the car.

Brabham was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop before he started racing midget cars in 1948.

Brabham started racing after an American friend, Johnny Schonberg, persuaded him to watch a midget car race.

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.

During the 1965 season, Brabham started to consider retirement in order to manage his team.

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 '.

Brabham then began to gain significantly on Clark as the Scot's Climax engine started to splutter, however this proved to be a sporadic fault and he had enough of a lead to maintain the position.

Carlos Reutemann started on pole with the Brabham duo of John Watson and Niki Lauda second and third.

While most FOCA-aligned teams, such as Brabham, McLaren, Williams and Lotus boycotted the race, four teams – Tyrrell, Osella, ATS and Toleman – broke their stated boycott and started the race anyway.

Australian David Brabham, driving for Brabham, the team his triple World Championship winning father Jack had started back in, qualified for his first Australian Grand Prix in 25th position.

Allen started his F1 career with the Brabham team in, and in worked with future TV colleagues Mark Blundell and Martin Brundle.

Sharp started seventh in his debut race at the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring and finished fourth in class ( fifth overall ) with teammates Brabham and Stefan Johansson.

The car was fast — Rindt set pole position twice during the season — but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year with only ten points.

However, Rindt's late decision to remain with Lotus meant that Brabham drove for another year.

Later in the year Brabham, again driving the Bobtail, tussled with Stirling Moss for third place in a non-championship Formula One race at Snetterton.

The same year, Brabham entered the famous Indianapolis 500 oval race for the first time in a modified version of the Formula One Cooper.

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.

Finding no top drivers available despite coming close to bringing Rindt back to the team, Brabham decided to race for one more year.

Brabham also drove for the works Matra team during the 1970 World Sportscar Championship season and won the final race of the season and his final top level race at the Paris 1000 km in October that year.

In the same year, he made his Formula One debut with the Ensign team and drove for McLaren and Brabham.

The 1967 Championship was essentially an internal affair within the Brabham team for most of the year, but the new Lotus 49 gave Jim Clark and Graham Hill the opportunity to bite back.

The next year,, Brabham and the Cooper works team became the first to win the Formula One World Championship in a rear-engined car.

In 1996 – 97, the Stingrays won both the ECHL championship Kelly Cup ( defeating the Louisiana IceGators four games to one ) and the Brabham Cup ( awarded to the team with the best regular season record ), becoming the first ECHL team and one of three overall to win both a regular season and postseason championship in the same year.

From the following year through to 1965 it powered Cooper, Lotus and Brabham Formula One cars to victory in a total of 22 World Championship Grand Prix races.

In the first year under McSorley, the Storm would play to an impressive record of 46 – 15 – 3, winning the West Division title and the Brabham Cup as the team with the best overall record during the ECHL's regular season.

The field arrived in Canada without Niki Lauda who, having clinched the championship at the previous race, and already announced his intention to drive for Brabham the following year, abruptly quit Ferrari following the team's decision to run a third car in Canada for Gilles Villeneuve.

It was his first win of the season and his third win in the German Grand Prix having previously won for Brabham in 1981, and Williams in the previous year.

It was just the second podium of the year for Brabham.

Pre-qualifying was not held for the first time in 1992 after Brabham failed to arrive, bringing an end to the 30 year history of the team.

Senna went on to win by almost a whole minute over Prost while Stefano Modena secured a valuable third for the underfunded Brabham team on its return to Formula One after a year out.

Brabham also had a foot in the turbo camp, as they had been developing a car powered by a BMW turbocharged engine since the previous year, but at the start of the year mainly relied on their older car powered by the naturally aspirated Cosworth DFV engine.

Triple champion Jack Brabham retired at the end of the year.

The Brabhams were fast — Rindt set pole position twice during the season — but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year having scored just ten points.