June 28 marked the anniversary of the Brabham team's first F1 win, delivered by Dan Gurney at the 1964 French GP. Though Jack Brabham was the boss, the cars were designed by Ron Tauranac. The latter's creations won championships at almost every level. In today's Great Read, we tracked down a no-nonsense engineer whose designs blended speed and efficiency with common sense
If it were possible to pinpoint where the old Formula 1 became the new, it might well have been on the deck of a yacht at Monaco in May 1971. Present were two men: one was Bernie Ecclestone, the yacht owner, and the other, rather less at home in this setting, Ron Tauranac.
On a handshake, the Anglo-Australian designer agreed to sell Brabham, the business he had jointly founded 11 years earlier with his great mate, Jack. Tauranac had engineered Brabham into a powerhouse racing car constructor, with F1 titles to its name...
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