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| | TIME.com: Fast Out of the Turns -- Aug. 10, 1959 -- Page 1 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14) |
 | | But Australian-born Jack Brabham and his Cooper-Climax are challengingand beatingthe world's biggest names this season in the exacting sport of Grand Prix road racing, the ultimate competition for lean speed machines that can chafe off rubber in skidding turns, accelerate to 190 m.p.h. |
 | | This year Coventry Climax developed a special four-cylinder, 2.5 liter, Grand Prix engine, and the Coopers started showing their tail pipes to all comers. |
 | | In 1955, driving a car from the garage in Surbiton, he won the Australian Grand Prix, snapped up an offer to campaign on the international circuit with Cooper. |
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