Three-time F1 champion Jack Brabham, the first person both to win an F1 race and title in their own car, died on this day in 2014. His eponymous team lasted 30 years and made the reputation of drivers, designers and a Formula 1 mogul. Alan Henry charts the story of Brabham from a fledging team to world champion constructor in today's Great Read
Few Grand Prix marques have produced a range of cars as technically diverse and innovative as that designed and built by the Brabham team over its 30 years of participation in Formula 1. The team also boasts the rare distinction of both their first and last Formula One cars being raced by a World Champion, though, in the latter case it would take a further four years before its driver was able to claim his crown.
In the 1962 German Grand Prix, the team's name sake Jack Brabham – title holder in 1959 and '60 and destined to repeat the achievement in 1966 – did the job. In 1992, it fell to Damon Hill to ring down the curtain on Brabham and F1 with his outing in the Hungarian GP...
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