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  Jack Brabham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Brabham was a second generation Australian, born the son of a grocer in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville).
Brabham took the Championship-winning Cooper to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a test following the 1960 season, then entered the famous 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 John Cooper had shown that the days of front-engined roadsters were numbered.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Brabham   (432 words)

  
 Brabham Racing Organisation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
It was the only Australian team ever to carry a World Champion to victory, and the last team run by the driver to win a Formula One world championship.
Team Brabham's second title was acquired by Denny Hulme in 1967.
Brabham sold his shares to Ron Tauranac in 1970/1971 and the latter later sold the team to Bernie Ecclestone in 1972.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Brabham_Racing_Organisation   (223 words)

  
 Jack Brabham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Sir Jack Brabham, OBE (born April 2, 1926) is an Australian racing driver who was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966.
He also raced midget cars and in his first season won the NSW Championship and formed a partnership with.
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 Dan Gurney.
www.pineville.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Jack_Brabham   (469 words)

  
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 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.
The team had gone as far as it was going to go with Alfa Romeo and as the Italians were planning their own operation, Brabham switched back to Cosworth power.
www.grandprix.com /gpe/con-brabh.html   (2298 words)

  
 Brabham
Bernie Ecclestone - the new team principal at Brabham
The lack of success was reflected in problems of sponsorship funding and although the team raced for the 1987 season, Bernie Ecclestone decided that it was time to close the team and for him to concentrate on wider issues within the F1 grand prix world … but that as they say is another story.
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)

  
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A fl and white diagonal flag is a "once-only" warning to a driver for non-sporting on-track behavior, while a fl flag with red spot shown in conjunction with a competitor's number indicates the driver's car has a mechanical problem and he is must stop at his pit.
The framework of a race car (and any motor vehicle), including the suspension and wheels, to which all other elements of the car are connected.
Teams must ensure the data recorder is available and accessible to the F.I.A. Is the managing director of TAG Heuer Group.
www.jclemens.com /F1/abcde.htm   (1826 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)

  
 Season 2003 - Team Management Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He moved to join the Brabham Racing team and by 1968 he had been appointed to the position of Chief Mechanic to Sir Jack Brabham.
Martin was primarily responsible for both the race and test teams, in addition to overseeing the company's engineering and manufacturing functions.
Late in 1977 Neil, who was born in 1954, took a position in the drawing office of the Williams Formula One team as a design draughtsman, and during the seven years spent with the team he also assumed the role of a race engineer.
www.mclaren.co.uk /season2003/biographies/teambiogs.htm   (1668 words)

  
 BMW   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Racing to stay ahead: BMW is investing heavily to survive as an independent automaker.
BMW motorcycles were first produced in 1923 and had an unusual "boxer twin" engine, with two air-cooled cylinders protruding from opposite sides of the machine.
It is both powerful (the engine is a 167bhp unit derived from the company's work with the Williams F1 team) and significantly lighter than previous K models.
hallencyclopedia.com /BMW   (2907 words)

  
 Balderdash Racing Team   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Following the endurance race at Le Mans, the FMBL circus stayed in France for the 10th round at Clermont-Ferrand.
About 7 laps into the race Perera has a sizable gap ahead and behind him, and was going into cruise mode for the remainder of the event.
The team is basically down to one car for the rest of the season, with Jukka unavailable to drive for now.
www.geocities.com /balderdashracing   (1112 words)

  
 American Auto Racing Writers & Broadcasters Association   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
He began racing in 1936, winning an AAA Midget championship, was the Bay Cities Racing Association champion in 1947, ’48 and ’49, and also won the 1948 Aztec Championship, a special 15-race series between BCRA and Mexican drivers.
After forming his own team racing Brabham cars, he won the world crown a third time in 1966 and the manufacturer’s title as well, to become the first to win both honors in a single year.
Although he was a successful race driver during the first years of the century, he helped boost the sport even more by his reliance upon racing to boost development and sales programs of the Ford Motor Co., including fielding a team of Ford cars in the 1935 Indianapolis 500.
beta.motorsportsforum.com /ris01/legends.htm   (19573 words)

  
 Grand Prix Racing - the whole story
During their first season in the circus the Hesketh team was often frowned upon by the more established teams, with their penchant for parties and champagne-toting butlers in the pitlane.
By 1976 the cost of the team was becoming too much for even Lord Hesketh's voluminous coffers and several teams were showing interest in Hunt, most notably McLaren who needed to replace Fittipaldi who had left to drive the family car for Copersucar.
Horsley continued to race an uprated version of the car for a few more years employing paying drivers, but few were ever of the calibre of Hunt and eventually the team was wound up.
www.gpracing.net192.com /teams/61.cfm   (436 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.
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.
While the small engined cars seemed tailor made for Jimmy Clark and Lotus, Brabham's aggressive style seemed unsuited and he would not win a race during the 1500 cc era.
www.ddavid.com /formula1/brab_bio.htm   (577 words)

  
 Crash.Net, The Ultimate Global Motorsport Portal.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
David Brabham headed to this weekend's inaugural Bahrain GT Festival saying that the Coopers Racing team intended to 'give it a good shake', but admitted that taking victory alongside co-driver Allan Simonsen made up for a difficult season.
The sportscar ace linked up with the Australian Ferrari team at late notice, hoping for a strong run to put memories of a troubled year with the Krohn-Barbour Lamborghini ALMS squad to the back of his mind, but could not have hoped to dominate the Bahrain event in the manner which he and Simonsen achieved.
Despite having raced a 550 in last season's ALMS - and won races with it - Brabham knew that he faced a different prospect when teaming up with the Coopers team, which had previously contested the Australian Nations Cup series with the car.
www.crash.net /avantgo/news103160.html   (482 words)

  
 Atlas F1 News Service, 2002 Teams: West McLaren Mercedes
Adrian's talent for designing race cars was originally nurtured in the 1980s with the March team.
In the 1990s, Mercedes-Benz has also won titles in other important racing categories: in 1992, 1994 and 1995 in the German Touring Championships (DTM), in 1995 in the International Touring Championships (ITC), in 1997 the Constructors' Championship in the American CART-Championship, as well as driver and team titles in the FIA GT Championships in 1998.
David Coulthard wins one race on his way to finishing third in the Drivers' Championship, and the team also scores five one-two victories during the season.
www.atlasf1.com /news/2002/features/teams/mclaren.html   (1750 words)

  
 McLaren Grand Prix Team - John Hopkinson's Unofficial Page
The McLaren team is ranked together with Williams and Ferrari as one of the grandee teams in F1, with sustained success over a long period of time in grand prix racing.
In 1980 there was a merger brokered by Marlboro between the McLaren Team (who were having a lean time in terms of race results) and the dynamic Project Four racing team which was headed by Ron Dennis.
Unlike Frank Williams (the principal of the Williams GP Team) who aspired to be a racing driver in his youth, Ron Dennis's experience of motor racing came from the team support side.
ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/john_hopkinson/mclaren.htm   (1214 words)

  
 Season 2005 - Team Management Biographies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In 1997, as the race team division and parent company, the McLaren Group continued to evolve, Martin was promoted to Managing Director, a role which encompassed managing the team of people and processes behind the Formula One operation and relationships with the company’s Technology Partners.
Adrian's reputation as one of the leading aerodynamicists in motorsport was cemented with his moves to the Williams Formula One team in 1990, and then McLaren in 1997.
Late in 1977 Neil, who was born in June 1954, took a position in the drawing office of the Williams Formula One team as a design draughtsman, and during the seven years spent with the team he also assumed the role of a race engineer.
www.mclaren.co.uk /season/biographies/teambiogs.htm   (2314 words)

  
 italiaspeed.com
Brabham dominated last year's inaugural Bathurst 24-Hour, leading up the 18th hour in a Cirtek Motorsport Porsche GT3 RS until a co-driver crashed.
Brabham has had an extremely busy 2003, being in high demand throughout the world.
Brabham is Australia's most successful international sportscar ace, having driven for leading marques including Jaguar, McLaren, Panoz, Bentley and Ferrari.
www.italiaspeed.com /news_2003_sportscars/bathurst/bathurst_phr_brabham.html   (577 words)

  
 Brathurst 24 Hour Update: Monaro 1-2 Finish Gives Brock 10th Brathurst Crown; www.TheRaceSite.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The popular Morgan Aero 8 pulled out with engine failure on lap 97 and the Austrian BE Racing team of David Brabham, Andrea Montermini, Philipp Peter and Klaus Engelhorn lost their Ferrari with engine failure and a consequent crash on lap 267.
Although BrockÂ’s nine previous Bathurst victories were in the 1000 race, he said he counted the 24-Hour as a genuine 10 th enduro.
Two team cars, battling it out with a winning margin of only a couple of 10 ths of a second.
www.theracesite.com /index.cfm?pagetype=2&form_article=6246   (897 words)

  
 Motorsport.com: News channel
David Brabham in car 80 led the GTS class for most of the session, setting a time of 1m 23.405 towards the end, closely followed (at one stage by 0.004 seconds) by car 88.
David Brabham celebrates his 38th birthday today but is planning to extend the birthday celebrations with his family in Australia when he sees them next week.
Ironically, one of his key competitors in the race will be Craig Lowndes who races for the Ford Performance Racing team, which is owned by Prodrive.
www.motorsport.com /news/article.asp?ID=136013   (505 words)

  
 WilliamsF1 History 67-77 - Early Years || Williams F1 - Unofficial Williams F1 News and Views   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
His motor racing career was to commence in 1964 when he raced a crash repaired F3 Brabham with owner Anthony "Bubbles" Horsley.
Williams was able to acquire a Brabham BT26 chassis with the intention to enter the car in the 1969 Formula One Championship with Piers driving.
The team purchased a Hesketh 308C which was on the market after the Hesketh team closed down.
www.sportnetwork.net /main/s107/st4062.php   (669 words)

  
 :: IMSA - International Motor Sports Association ::
Jan Magnussen, Brabham's former teammate at Panoz and Ferrari, is the only other driver to have won in three different marques.
Brabham also now has won at least one race a year for six years, tying him with Magnussen and Maassen for the most in series history.
The team will go for its second class title at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in about two months, quite an accomplishment for a privateer team.
www.imsaracing.net /imsaNS.cfm?h=/2003/news/header.htm&p=/2003/news05/3-24200594830ALMS.htm   (783 words)

  
 Welcome to Team Nasamax   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It reflects very well on the efforts and enthusiasm of Nasamax and the entire EEMS team - obviously this is a programme that has a bright future.
Team Nasamax is now looking forward to another determined campaign in sportscar racing in 2005, as well as supporting a number of new developments in renewable and sustainable motorsport technologies."
Brabham, who is expected to be a driver for the 2005 Aston Martin Racing team, will now actively promote the efforts of EEMS in encouraging greater use of alternative fuels and energy-efficient materials within all forms of motorsport.
www.nasamax.com /en/news_0.asp   (342 words)

  
 BMW - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BMW motorcycles were first produced in 1923 and had an unusual "boxer twin" engine, with two air-cooled cylinders protruding from opposite sides of the machine, hence the lateral movement when one accelerates.
The term "beemer" started as a pronunciation of the acronym "BMW," adapted from the early-20th-Century British pronunciation of BSA (as "beeser" or "beezer"), whose motorcycles were often racing BMW's.
BMW TEAM LUXEMBOURG Is a Team of BMW enthusiasts from Luxembourg, take a look ;-).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/BMW   (3831 words)

  
 Torsten Palm - Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In his Mennen Racing Team Brabham BT28 Nova, he won three of the four championship races, two of three other non-title events, comfortably took the Swedish F3 title with 21 points, and led the national team to a second consecutive European Cup.
An average race at Mantorp Park was then followed up by 3rd place in heat 2, and 3rd outright in the final at Karlskoga, including fastest lap of the race, which showed that on circuits he knew well he was a match for anybody.
The Team Pierre Robert was sufficiently impressed to allow Palm back for four more races in 1974, and at Salzburgring and Karlskoga (where the team reverted him to an older GRD 273) Torsten scored a point each, whilst his efforts at Hockenheim and Mugello were also respectable.
f1rejects.com /drivers/palm/biography.html   (1874 words)

  
 HRT - Holden Racing Team - Greg Murphy
Despite this, he finished 4th, then teamed with Craig Lowndes to successfully defend their Tickford 500 title the pair had won the previous year at Melbourne's Sandown circuit.
Murphy and Lowndes then attempted the Sandown/Bathurst double, but their Mobil Holden Racing Team Commodore crashed out of the Mount Panorama Classic on lap 38, while running a close second.
In June, Greg was given the honour of racing the Mobil HRT's new VT Commodore in its debut race at Melbourne's Calder Park circuit, and was extensively involved in the vehicle's development testing.
www.hsv.com.au /racing/murphy.htm   (313 words)

  
 Brabham Register   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
U.S.A. Australian racing driver Jack Brabham began producing racing cars for customers in 1961 with the engineering assistance of his partner, Ron Tauranac.
As a result of the profits derived from the sale of customer cars, Jack Brabham was able to finance some of the costs of his Formula 1 racing team, Motor Racing Developments (MRD).
The BRABHAM REGISTER was founded in December 1978 in order to help owners of Brabham cars find the parts needed to keep the cars raceworthy.
clubs.hemmings.com /clubsites/brabham/history.htm   (201 words)

  
 Team Petronas Touring Cars: Sir Albert Poon   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Albert is the undisputed hero of Asian racing drivers.
He has driven all types of racing cars having begun his illustrious racing career in a Triumph TR 3 at the 1959 Macau Grand Prix.
Albert drove for Team PETRONAS very successfully from 1990 to 1993 in his Sierra RS500, as well as driving a Group N Honda Civic VTEC.
www.teampetronas.com /bios/albert.html   (203 words)

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