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	Jack Brabham
		Jack Brabham (born April 2, 1926) was Formula One champion in 1959, 1960 and 1966.
		Brabham was a second generation Australian, born in Hurstville[?] (near Sydney) the son of a grocer.
		Brabham left school at 15 to work in a garage.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ja/Jack_Brabham.html (270 words)

	Jack Brabham - WOI Encyclopedia Italia
		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.
		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.
	www.wheelsofitaly.com /wiki/index.php/Jack_Brabham (481 words)

	GrandPrix.com > GP Encyclopedia > Drivers > Jack Brabham
		Brabham very nearly quit the sport after that but a meeting with a young engineer called Ron Tauranac resulted in a switch to hillclimbing in 1951 and from there moving into road racing with a Cooper-Bristol which had been shipped out from Europe.
		Brabham bought a Lotus with which to start the 1962 season and then in July 1962 the Brabham BT3 appeared at the German GP.
		In 1967 Brabham's number two driver Denny Hulme won the title but in 1968 a new Repco unit proved to be less effective and the arrival of the Cosworth DFV left all opposition standing.
	www.grandprix.com /gpe/drv-brajac.html (897 words)

	The Official Formula 1 Website (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		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.
		Jack Brabham, whose final victory came in the 1970 South African Grand Prix when he was 44, chose that season to retire as a driver.
		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.
	www.formula1.com /archive/halloffame/driver/133.html (1032 words)

	Brabham
		This was Jack's third Drivers World Championship, and it was notably because it was the first time (and so far the only time) that a driver has won the championship as a team owner.
		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)

	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.
		Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme finished one-two in France and again at Mosport in the rain.
		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)

	Jack Brabham
		Brabham prepared a car for the American but Johnny’s wife persuaded him to quit racing so it was left to Jack to try his luck.
		Jack acquired a Cooper Bristol which he named the Redex Special, after the commercial backers but sponsorship was forbidden at that time and this bought him into conflict with CAMS, the governing body of motor sport in Australia.
		Jack Brabham was knighted in 1979 and still competes in occasional historic races.
	www.500race.org /Men/Brabham.htm (735 words)

	Sir Jack Brabham, O.B.E. -Summary Biography
		The Brabham name is synonymous with Grand Prix motor racing and to this day, Sir Jack Brabham, the first driver in history to be knighted for his services to motorsport, remains one of racing’s most popular personalities.
		Brabham established himself in Australian oval racing before switching to road racing in the early 1950’s.
		It was also in a Cooper that Sir Jack shook the establishment at Indianapolis, qualifying the first modern mid-engined car at the 500 and finishing ninth.
	www.jackbrabham.com /biography1.html (452 words)

	Jack Brabham : Ron Tauranac : Grand Prix : Formula 1 : World Champion : Australian : Cooper : Bruce McLaren : Denny ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Jack continued racing through to 1971 despite an accident that broke an ankle in 1969, when he retired aged 44.
		Jacks sons Geoff, Gary and David all went on to race with considerable success, although not quite reaching the levels achieved by their father.
		Jack continues to thrill his fans taking to the wheel of one of his previous cars at historic support events such as the one at the Australian Grand Prix.
	www.motorracing.tv /html/jack_brabham.asp (268 words)

	Jack Brabham - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Brabham was born the son of a grocer in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville.
		Referring to Brabham's unwillingness to spend money, his team mate Gurney said that "Jack was tighter than a bull's ass in fly season".
		Brabham was honored, along with featured marque Cooper, at the 2006 Monterey Historic Automobile Races.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jack_Brabham (893 words)

	8W - Who? - Jack Brabham
		The Brabham name was put on the national map, albeit in the midst of controversy, as the rough machine from the cinder tracks wasn’t quite what the hill-climbing community had in mind when setting up the rules of their game.
		Jack was still best of the rest, even including his second last-lap drama of the season when he ran out of fuel at Brands Hatch, but the races that followed saw a steep drop of form.
		Jack slumped to fifth in the final standings, although he shone for the final time in his 126th and last GP, qualifying fourth in Mexico and running a strong third before retiring with a blown engine.
	8w.forix.com /jbrabham.html (6740 words)

	Sir Jack Brabham - RAAF Veteran & Formula 1 Legend
		John Arthur Brabham, the son of a green grocer, was born in the Sydney suburb of Hurstville on April 2, 1926.
		The young Brabham left school at the age of 15 to work in a garage.
		Brabham was then discharged from the RAAF on April 2, 1946 - his 20th birthday - with the rank of Leading Aircraftman (LAC).
	www.pacificwrecks.com /people/veterans/brabham.html (197 words)

	Jack Brabham - International Motorsports Hall of Fame Member
		Jack Brabham's accomplishments are so many and so varied it is hard to determine just what has placed him among the elite corps of the world's greatest racing drivers.
		Born April 2, 1926 in Hurstville, Australia, John Arthur Brabham is the son of a green grocer.
		From there, Brabham became involved in hill climbing and dirt-track racing until, by 1957, he was firmly entrenched as a member of John Cooper's factory team in England, driving in Sports and Formula Two cars.
	www.motorsportshalloffame.com /halloffame/1990/Jack_Brabham_main.htm (368 words)

	Jack Brabham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		Sir John Arthur Brabham was born on the 2nd April 1926, in Sydney.
		Brabham continued to be quite a successful Formula One team, and some great F1 drivers used to drive for them, like Damon Hill and Nelson Piquet.
		Jack Brabham's legacy in Austrailia is quite special, with the trophy for the Austrailian Grand Prix a replica of the steering wheel off Jack's Brabham that won him the World Championship in 1966.
	homepage.ntlworld.com /qiongdong.gao/jimmy/formula1/brabham.htm (221 words)

	Jack Brabham’s Car:
		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.
		Whereas Jack was the born engineer, the racer, the hard worker, and he got the results because of it.
	www.abc.net.au /gnt/history/Transcripts/s1041044.htm (867 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)

	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.
		Brabham's winning car at the 1966 World Formula One Driver's Championship was a Repco-Brabham.
		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)

	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)

	Sir Jack Brabham:
		Sir Jack Brabham was the first driver in history to be knighted for services to motor sport.
		Sir Jack is a triple world champion and the only Formula One driver to have won a world title in a car of his own construction, the BT19, which he drove to victory in 1966.
		SIR JACK BRABHAM: Yeah, I had a fantastic dice with Bruce McLaren and that was pretty exciting on its own.
	www.abc.net.au /dimensions/dimensions_in_time/Transcripts/s802751.htm (961 words)

	Jack Brabham's MG Midget Climax - a really potent sports car with vast reserves of stamina...
		Jack has developed a mounting which gives smooth running right through the revolution range, an achievement which some other firms have failed to emulate.
		The engine fills the bonnet from the radiator to the bulkhead, but an electric fan, mounted ahead of the radiator block, saves the under-bonnet space usually occupied by this component The result of all this is that one gains 270 c.c.
		Jack Brabham disapproves of stiffening the suspension and I heartily agree with him.
	www.ahsdc.org /goblins/tech/brabham.htm (1381 words)

	Vintage 1967 COLOR photo of Jack Brabham and his Brabham Repco BT24, GP of Britain, Silverstone
		This is a vintage 1967 COLOR photo of Sir Jack Brabham (1926 -) getting ready to get into his Brabham-Repco BT24 during a practice session for the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone.
		Brabham Repco" on the bottom border (visible in the scan).
		Sir Jack qualified the Brabham in 3rd place and finished the race in 4th position.
	www.thef1store.com /en-us/p_906.html (158 words)

	F1empire.com - Historic Drivers: Jack Brabham
		YEARS OF Grandson of English immigrants, Jack grew up in Sydney and after studying Mechanical Engineering he was drafted by the Royal Australian Air Force as a mechanic on Australian based fighters.
		Brabham impressed all by being competitive with, and even beating, Formula 1's top drivers who came over for off-season competition.
		In 1966 Brabham's union with fellow Australian company Repco proved very successful, as he went on to take the 1966 World Championship.
	www.f1empire.com /history/drivers/0brabhamj.htm (444 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.
		Brabham sensibly bails on the lost cause, as Bruno inherits the hunk o' junk.
	f1rejects.com /drivers/brabhamg/biography.html (2196 words)

	The Jack Brabham Story \| Haymarket
		Jack's experience in those formative years and his willingness to learn come through very clearly and it was the knowledge and skills he gained then that were to carry him to the top of Grand Prix racing in the late 1950s.
		Jack's story from his arrival in Britain in 1955 has been well documented, but this book tells the story straight from the horse's (or at least, Sir Jack's) mouth.
		Jack will continue to race as long as he can get into the cars and as long as he enjoys it.
	reviews.pitstop.net.au /view/12/18 (414 words)

	Amazon.fr : Brabham Ralt Honda: The Ron Tauranac Story: Livres en anglais: Jack Brabham,Mike Lawrence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
		This is the fascinating story of a British-born aircraft designer named Ron Tauranac who in 1960 joined Formula 1 World Champion Jack Brabham in a venture to design and build race cars.
		The roster of drivers who piloted the Tauranac and Brabham cars during the period reads like a veritable who's-who of auto racing in the 1960s-Hulme, Gurney, Bonnier, Amon, Graham Hill, Rindt and, of course, Brabham himself.
		After Tauranac and Brabham sold out their business in 1972, the former rejoined his brother, Austin Lewis, in the U.K., where the pair recommenced RALT, a race car business they had operated in Australia in the 1950s.
	www.amazon.fr /Brabham-Ralt-Honda-Tauranac-Story/dp/1899870350 (364 words)

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