Jack Brabham took the Cooper T53's first win on this day at the 1960 Dutch GP. For Gordon Murray, that car had it all. Great concept, simplicity and lightness. And it trounced its big-budged rivals – as he explains in today's Great Read
When I think back to GP design milestones, it's pretty obvious, really: the first rear-engined F1 Cooper. Not so much from a technical point of view even though it was after my own heart from that aspect because it was so simple and so effective compared to the other more complex cars of the time but because it brought with it probably the single most significant change in grand prix cars.
Nobody went on building front-engined cars much after that. There was that Aston Martin and the Scarab; I suppose the last was the Ferguson P99 4WD with its weird offset drive-line like the Lotus 16...
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