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Jack Brabham Lauguna Seca, California 2006
5.18.14 Sir Jack Brabham. The Racing World has lost one more of the Great Gentlemen of the Golden Age of Racing.
Sir Brabham passed away at his home in Gold Coast, Australia on Monday.
Jack Brabham was a three-time
Formula 1 World Champion, and his 1966 world title made him the only driver to be crowned champion in a car
bearing his own name.
Jack Brabham and his partner, Ron Tauranac built and raced formula and sports racing cars. Ron built the cars and Jack would race. They sold cars to clients to support the racing efforts. Just like that guy did with red cars in Italy, except Jack kept racing them.
Jack even flew his own airplane, sometimes flying back to England to get parts or an engine during the race-setup days.
Goodwood Statement on Sir Jack Brabham 2014 - pdf file
Brabham is best known for their Formula 1 achievements, but Brabham BT-designated cars have achieved global success with numerous Formula 1 and Formula 2 championship titles, and made their presence felt in Formula Junior, Formula B, Formula Atlantic, as well the Indianapolis 500, hill climb and closed-wheel sports car racing.
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The very first BT designation, BT1, was attached retrospectively to a Formula Junior model in 1961.
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BT3 was Brabham’s first Formula 1 car, making its debut at the 1962 German Formula 1 Grand Prix. It was in BT3 that Jack Brabham became the first driver ever to score Championship points in a car bearing his own name, at the 1962 United States Grand Prix.
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Dan Gurney earned the Brabham team its first Formula 1 race win at Rouen-les-Essarts in 1964 at the wheel of a BT7.
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Between 1964 and 1966, Brabham’s BT8A found great success in sports car racing, with Denny Hulme scoring the car’s greatest victory at the 1965 Tourist Trophy at Oulton Park, against a field of much larger-engined Lola T70s, Lotus 30s and McLaren M1s.
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The BT18 Honda, piloted by Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme completely dominated the 1966 Formula 2 Championship, winning 11 out of 12 races.
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In 1966, Jack Brabham made history with BT19 in becoming the first to win a Formula 1 race in a car bearing the driver’s name. He would go on to take the Formula 1 Drivers’ Championship and earn Brabham its first Formula 1 Constructors’ Championship in the same year.
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Arguably the most controversial Formula 1 car of all time, the radical, ground-hugging Brabham BT46B ‘fan car’ won its first and only outing at the 1978 Swedish Grand Prix, piloted by Niki Lauda.
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Three years later, in 1981, Nelson Piquet took the Formula 1 Drivers’ Championship at the wheel of a Brabham BT49C.
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Piquet won his second Formula 1 world title in 1983 for Brabham, driving BT52; the first ever Championship win for a turbo-charged car.
The Brabham name first hit the track in 1948, when Sir Jack Brabham made his Australian competition debut. Seventy years on, as Brabham Automotive prepares to unveil Brabham BT62, the company is celebrating the evolving Brabham story with seventy defining dates, images and insights from its rich and evocative history.
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