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	F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Engines > Repco
		In 1961 Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac established the Motor Racing Developments company in Repco premises in Surbiton, England and the early cars were actually called Repco Brabhams.
		He gave Repco its first win in the International Trophy in May that year and won the French GP in July, the first of four wins which took him to World Championship victory.
		The 1967 World Championship began with victory at Monaco for Brabham's team mate Denny Hulme and as the year progressed it was Hulme who became the frontrunner for the Brabham-Repco team which developed the 740 version of the original 620 engine.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/eng-repco.html (412 words)

	Jack Brabham -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Brabham took the Championship-winning Cooper to the (additional info and facts about Indianapolis Motor Speedway) Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a test following the 1960 season, then entered the famous (additional info and facts about 500-mile race) 500-mile race in a modified version of the Formula One car in 1961.
		The Indianapolis establishment gradually realized the writing was on the wall as Brabham and his team principal (additional info and facts about John Cooper) John Cooper had shown that the days of front-engined roadsters were numbered.
		A newly introduced engine limit in Formula One of 1500 cc did not suit Brabham and he did not win a single race with a 1500 cc car, although his first team win came in 1964 with (additional info and facts about Dan Gurney) Dan Gurney.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/ja/jack_brabham.htm (539 words)

	Repco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They powered the Brabham Formula One engine team from 1966 through 1968, although Repco engines were still seen in the 1969 season.
		The Repco F1 engine was based on the small-block Buick/Oldsmobile V8, but was fitted with DOHC and four valve per cylinder.
		Repco also prepared various Holden engines for the Australian Touring Car Championship and for the Tasman Series, when this series was run under Formula 5000 technical regulations.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Repco (106 words)

	Brabham Race Setups
		The Brabham BT19, the first Brabham chassis for the 3 liter formula, was the lightest car of 1966, and good enough to take Jack to his third World Driver's Championship and his first Constructor's Championship in 1966.
		After the introduction of the Lotus 49 at Zandvoort, the Brabham was never the fastest car, and toward the end of the year the pace of engine development by the other teams began to leave the Repco V-8 significantly down on power.
		The Brabham is great as a next step in the progression of driver development, and it is a strong car from a competitive point of view as well.
	eaglewoman.rscsites.org /gpl/brabham.htm (2507 words)

	BMWTeaM - Formula 1 Motorsporları
		The MRD Brabhams were quickly successful in several categories of racing, particularly Formula Two where for several years they dominated, affording the opportunity for many drivers to advance their careers.
		The Brabham team was sold to Bernie Ecclestone and Jack returned home to Australia, where he busied himself running a farm, a car dealership and an aviation company, and helped his sons with their racing careers.
		Brabham retired from the Italian Grand Prix with an oil leak, but it could not stop him becoming champion for the third time and the first man to do so in a car bearing his name.
	www.bmwteam.net /extremem3e46/efsanepilotlar/jackbrabham.asp (1409 words)

	Brabham BT24 Repco - Ultimatecarpage.com - Images, Specifications and Information
		In the car's second Grand Prix, Brabham drove it to a fourth place and as a result was the driver to ever score world championship points in a car bearing his own name.
		As the 1.5 litre era drew to a close in 1965, Brabham was a well established manufacturer, producing dozens of cars per year.
		Although Brabham and Tauranec parted ways and sold the team to others, Brabham continued to be competitive well into the 1980s with the minimalistic designs that brought to the foreground.
	www.ultimatecarpage.com /frame.php?file=car.php&carnum=2850 (1099 words)

	F1 News - Grandprix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Constructors > Brabham (Motor Racing Developments Ltd.)
		Brabham was involved in the design of the Coopers and in 1961 he and Ron Tauranac, an engineer from Australia who was working at the Jack Brabham Motors garage and filling station in Chessington, established Motor Racing Developments Ltd. and began building a Formula Junior car in a shed in Esher.
		Brabham himself did fewer races, leaving Hulme to partner Gurney on some occasions and the year ended with Gurney finishing second in the US and Mexican GPs.
		In the course of 1981 Brabham began testing BMW turbocharged engines but these were not used regularly until the end of 1982, by which time Piquet's new team mate Riccardo Patrese had won a curious victory at Monaco.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-brabh.html (2285 words)

	F1 : Brabham Info Page
		Brabham has the distinction of being the first driver/constructor to win a GP (the 1963 non-championship Solitude GP at Stuttgart).
		When Brabham retired from driving at the end of 1970, the team was run mainly by Tauranac with little success on the track and was purchased by Bernie Ecclestone's Motor Racing Developments in 1972.
		The remainder of the team and the Brabham name was sold to Swiss financier Joachim Luithi and reappeared for the 1989 season.
	www.mcz.com /f1/team/brabham.htm (337 words)

	Into The red - Brabham BT24
		Repco Grand Prix engine is down on power to the other cars but has a very broad torque band.
		Brabham was clearly a two car/two driver team, and this is reflected in the original GPL.
		In common with a number of teams, Brabham's new chassis/engine for 1967 was not available at the start of the season, so they began the season with the 1966 car, the Brabham-Repco BT20, powered by a Repco 3 litre V-8 engine.
	www.intothered.dk /simracing/brabham.html (346 words)

	Tasman-Series.com : The 2.5L Tasman Series 1964-69
		Denis Hulme, in a very sick sounding Brabham Repco V8, was third, one lap in arrears, followed by the two Alec Mildren team Brabham Climaxes of Frank Gardner and Kevin Bartlett.
		Brabham says that the car is in many respects a prototype for the next F2 machine.
		Levis (Brabham) took the lead at the start of the first preliminary from Dene Hollier's 1.5 Lotus 27, Bill Stone and Grahame Harvey (both 1.5 Brabhams) and Graeme Lawrence, the last named experiencing missing in his Brabham.
	www.tasman-series.com /races/1967/round3/round3.asp (2170 words)

	Redline Grand Prix - Brabham Repco
		The Brabham Repco F1 was one of four open-wheel Indy cars released in 1969 as part of the new Grand Prix Series.
		Brabham Repcos with clear windscreens and white interiors are prototype cars and are quite valuable.
		The Brabham Repco was re-issued in 1974 as the RASH 1.
	redlinegrandprix.com /Redline_GP_Brabham.html (374 words)

	Redline Grand Prix - Brabham Repco
		The Brabham Repco F1 was one of four open-wheel Indy cars released in 1969 as part of the new Grand Prix Series.
		Brabham Repcos with clear windscreens and white interiors are prototype cars and are quite valuable.
		The Brabham Repco was re-issued in 1974 as the RASH 1.
	www.redlinegrandprix.com /Redline_GP_Brabham.html (386 words)

	Encyclopedia: Monaco Grand Prix (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The Brabham Racing Organisation was a Formula One racing team founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac.
		Jack Brabhams 1961 Cooper-Climax, the car that began the rear-engine revolution at the Indianapolis 500 The Cooper Car Company was founded in 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper.
		Jack Brabhams 1961 Cooper-Climax, the car that began the rear-engine revolution at the Indianapolis 500 Sir John Arthur Jack Brabham, OBE (born April 2, 1926) is an Australian racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Monaco-Grand-Prix (6937 words)

	Brabham
		Brabham took the Drivers' world championship for Cooper in 1959 and 1960, but Jack had aspirations to run his own F1 team.
		Jack Brabham continued to race his own cars but in 1970 at the age of 44 years, with 14 grand prix wins in his career he decided to retire and return to
		The Brabham team however returned to the F1 grid in 1989 after being sold to a Swiss financier who was later jailed for fraud.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/john_hopkinson/brabham.htm (975 words)

	Tasman-Series.com : The 2.5L Tasman Series 1964-69
		Down to the Creek the first time and Hill slipped under Brabham into third spot, but already Stewart was pouring on the horses.
		Clark was holding second clearly, but Brabham was suffering power loss problems and was under pressure from Gardner.
		Gardner, who had been challenging Brabham strongly for three laps, moved to third on lap 42 with a neat passing manoeuvre at Polo.
	www.tasman-series.com /races/1967/round6/round6.asp (827 words)

	Sir Jack Brabham - Scouters on Stamps
		Sir Jack Brabham was without doubt Australia's greatest international racing car driver, winning three World Drivers' Championships in 1959, 1960 and 1966.
		Repco developed the engine in Australia, helping Brabham become the first person to win the Championship driving a car built in his own factory.
		One stamp shows Brabham racing the Repco-Brabham in the Tasman Series at Sandown, Victoria, in 1966, the year he won the world title in the same car.
	www.sossi.org /scouters/brabham.htm (235 words)

	Grand Prix Cars - Brabham-BT 19 (Repco)
		Repco's was a parts supplier and manufacturer in Australia that was heavily involved with the Tasman Series.
		Providing modified engines for the Brabham Tasman cars they were looking for a replacement for the Climax engines that they were currently using.
		Brabham hearing of these developments contracted Repco to provide him with some 3-liter Formula 1 engines.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/brab.htm (244 words)

	Brabham BT-19
		Repco pistons were cast in aluminium silicon alloy, with shallow valve clearance indents in their crowns, and Irving’s new mirror heads were identical in every dimension to ease the spares situation; it was all good basic practical design.
		It was at about this time that Brabham and Repco began talking about producing an intermediate 3-litre variant for Formula One, and Phil Irving spent much of the summer in England, working closely with Jack himself on detail design of the new variant.
		Repco engine developments were at this time being carried out by Repco-Brabham Engines Pty Ltd at Maidstone, outside Melbourne, where a four-man design team were working under general manager Frank Hallam, and with Phil Irving’s strong influence their guiding light.
	silverstone.fortunecity.com /cosworth/633/bt19-1.htm (3588 words)

	Grand Prix Hall of Fame - Jack Brabham - Biography
		Jack Brabham was a second generation Aussie who's grandfather came from the Cockney area of East London.
		At 15 Brabham left school and got a job in a local garage while spending his evenings studying engineering at Kogarah Tech.
		Brabham prepared a new car for the American but after his wife induced him to quit racing it was left to Brabham to try his hand.
	www.ddavid.com /formula1/brab_bio.htm (717 words)

	Triumph World - Feature: Brabham Replica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Nearby was a collection of small workshops that were also part of the Brabham enclave, and the writer can remember delivering a crankshaft for balancing to one of those units in the late 1960s.
		One of the first motor racing figures of the post-war era to latch on to this possibility was John Cooper, who put his name to a tuned-up version of the Mini in 1961.
		Road tests on a Brabham Herald demonstrator were published during September 1960, in both The Autocar and Autosport magazines, with the car itself being displayed at the Racing Car Show in January ’61.
	www.chpltd.com /triumph_world/brabham.html (632 words)

	Jack Brabham’s Car:
		This story focuses on Sir Jack Brabham’s European racing career; forming his own racing team and ultimately developing the Repco Brabham BT19, the first Australian designed formula one car to win a world motor racing championship.
		SIR JACK BRABHAM: And the 1,500 formula wasn't very good for us because we had three or four years of struggling with it, to try and win races because we just didn't have the engine to do it with.
		Sir Jack Brabham had become the first driver in Formula One history to win a world championship in a car of his own design.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/history/Transcripts/s1041044.htm (867 words)

	Gary Brabham - Biography
		Jack Brabham Racing then had Panasonic backing for 15 out of 19 rounds in 1987, and in a Ralt RT31, again with a VW engine, Brabham won two races at Silverstone and Donington, coming 6th overall with 37 points.
		There, Brabham dawdled around before his engine blew on his 4th lap, to record a time of 2:07.147, some 30 seconds slower than the next-slowest entrant, Claudio Langes in a EuroBrun.
		All the same, he couldn't help himself when he was given a chance to drive a Brabham Repco BT23 in the Race of Legends support race at the Adelaide 500 V8 Supercar event in 2000.
	f1rejects.com /drivers/brabhamg/biography.html (2196 words)

	Vintage 1967 COLOR photo of Jack Brabham's Brabham Repco BT24, GP of Britain, Silverstone
		This is a vintage 1967 COLOR photo of Sir Jack Brabham's (1926 -) Brabham-Repco BT24 sitting behind the pit lane during a practice session for the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone.
		You can leave it there "as is", trim the borders off the photo or have it disappear under a matting when you have it framed.
		Sir Jack qualified the Brabham in 3rd place and finished the race in 4th position.
	www.thef1store.com /en-us/p_907.html (143 words)

	Brabham
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		Brabham Repco BT24 Jochen Rindt Monaco 1968 1:43" BORDER=0>
	www.racingmodels.co.uk /index.asp?function=DISPLAYCAT&catid=88 (239 words)

	BRABHAM GRAND PRIX IN SMALL SCALE
		The Brabham Grand Prix team was of course built around one man, Australian Sir Jack Brabham, but achieved great success even after he sold out to others in the '70's.
		By 1963 Brabham Grand Prix were regulars on the circuit; interestingly, their first Grand Prix win featured American Dan Gurney at the wheel in the 1964 French GP.
		The Repco V8 was reliable and just powerful enough to win the World Championship for Jack in 1966 and to repeat for his teammate Denny Hulme in 1967.
	www.breithaupts.com /totc318.htm (688 words)

	Brabham preiews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		When the program has run you will be presented with a "readme 1st" file containing instructions.
		Here is the delux version of my Brabham; it is not quite complete with all the features planned, but these will be added as and when they are done.
		These are the wheels from the "Delux" version of my Brabham with a kit to fit them to my earlier BT 24.
	www.bruces-stuff.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk /brabham.htm (260 words)

	Bruce's Stuff Brabham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Here are some new Goodyear tyre textures for your Brabham, there are instructions in the zip, to download just click on the picture above.
		Here is a picture of the real cars instruments at rest (engine off) compared to the at rest position of the instruments in my BT24 (I ran the car out of petrol and with the engine stopped let it cool down to get the instruments to give at rest readings).
		Here is the Lite version of the Brabham, it has all the shape and suspension mods of the full version but uses mainly standard and low res mips and a standard windscreen.
	www.eureniusdesign.com /bruce/brabham.htm (569 words)

	Jack BRABHAM • Brabham-Repco • French GP, 1967 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		World champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966 Jack Brabham and his 3-litre Brabham-Repco V8 proved to be a powerful combination in the mid 1960's.
		The Jack Brabham print harmonises perfectly with the Jackie Stewart and Denny Hulme prints, also available on our site.
		Jack Brabham • Jim Clark • Graham Hill • Mika Hakkinen • Denny Hulme • James Hunt • Nikki Lauda • Nigel Mansell • Alain Prost • Ayrton Senna • Jackie Stewart • Jody Scheckter • Gilles Villeneuve
	www.communiquer.net /f1/f1prints/brabham.html (221 words)

	Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
		Success arrived in 1964 when Dan Gurney took the chequered flag in France and Mexico and although Lotus dominated the 1965 season Brabham was ready for the move to the 3-litre formula in 1966.
		Using engines built by the Australian Repco company Brabham scored his first win in his own car in France and went on to win his third world title and the constructors title.
		His departure in 1985 prompted yet another decline and the team reached a low point in with the death of Elio de Angelis in a testing accident in May 1986.
	www.gpracing.net192.com /teams/43.cfm (661 words)

	Brabham, Jack (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Won International Trophy 1962 - 8 GP (Brabham), 9 points, 9th.
		Won Solitude and Zeltweg Non-championship GPs 1964 - 10 GP (Brabham - B.Climax), 11 points, 8th.
		Won 10 F2 events in Brabham-Honda 1967 - 11 GP (Brabham - B.Repco), 46 points, 2nd.
	www.silhouet.com /motorsport/drivers/brabhamj.html (196 words)

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