Born on this day in 1926, Jack Brabham was the first driver to win a grand prix in a car bearing his own name. That Reims race of 1966 also happened to be the first foreign grand prix that Nigel Roebuck attended. He savours the memory in today's Great Read
For Jack Brabham, the 1966 French Grand Prix will forever be the race in which he became the first man ever to win a World Championship round – a grande épreuve, as they used to be known – in a car bearing his own name. Six years earlier, Jack had won at Reims in a Cooper-Climax, but this was different – this was in a Brabham.
