Dan Gurney claimed the Brabham team's first world championship F1 win at the 1964 French GP on this day. To celebrate, today's Great Read is a track test trilogy, in which we drive three of the cars which forged the racing legacy of a unique champion in Brabham: the BT7, the BT24 and BT33
So this is the view. Staring down the sawn-off barrels of an unsilenced Coventry-Climax V8, ears pricked to the bark and crackle of this angry, pint-sized 1.5-litre race engine, eyes smarting in its rich, fumey wake.
This is the view the Gods of Grand Prix racing knew so well. Legends such as Clark, Gurney, Surtees, Hill, McLaren. And 'Black' Jack Brabham. They all knew how it felt to be tucked tightly into a web of welded tubes and flanked by fuel tanks, narrowed eyes peering through protective goggles, exposed faces peppered by grit and stung by rain. They knew what it took to dance these fierce yet delicate machines between the trees and telegraph poles at Spa, launch into the murk of the Nürburgring Nordschleife, thread the needle at Monaco or chase the slipstream at Monza. Theirs is a view I've longed to see…
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