David Brabham

David Brabham

Nation:	Australia
Formula 1 world championship
First start:	1990 Monaco Grand Prix
Last start:	1994 Australian Grand Prix
Constructors
1990  Brabham  • 1994  Simtek
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 24 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

David Brabham (born September 5, 1965 in Wimbledon , England ) is an Australian racing car driver .

Family and successes

David Brabham is the youngest of three sons of three-time Formula 1 World Champion Sir Jack Brabham and the only one of them who, like his father, competed in Formula 1 races. Jack and David Brabham are the only father-son team to ever drive a car that bears both names - the Brabham .

David Brabham is primarily known as a sports car champion. Between 1992 and 2012 he took part in the 24-hour race of Le Mans 18 times . His greatest success was the overall victory in 2009 together with Alexander Wurz and Marc Gené in the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP . He achieved this victory 50 years after his father Jack won his first Formula 1 World Championship in 1959 and 16 years after the triumph of his brother Geoff , who also won for Peugeot on the Sarthe in 1993.

Career

David Brabham in the Aston Martin DBR9, at the 2007 Le Mans 24 Hours

He began his career in Formula Atlantic , a racing series that originated in the USA, but under whose configuration races are also driven in Australia and New Zealand . In 1988 he came to England and drove there in Formula Vauxhall , a junior series. A year later, he rose to the B series of the British Formula 3 Championship and won five times in nine starts. This was followed by promotion to the A series, where he fought hard battles with the future Toyota Formula 1 driver Allan McNish throughout the season . Most important success: victory in the international Formula 3 race in Macau .

In 1990 the move to a higher class was due. David Brabham had already signed a contract with Middlebridge Racing for Formula 3000 when the opportunity suddenly arose to get into Formula 1. Gregor Foitek left the Brabham team after just two races and David took his place. An unsatisfactory season followed: 14 entries, but only eight qualified. The best place was a 15th place in the French Grand Prix . After the end of the season, his contract was not renewed.

Brabham in the Acura 2008

David Brabham switched to the sports car scene. In 1991 he drove for TWR Jaguar and won the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring with Derek Warwick . 1992 followed a year for Toyota with the debut at Le Mans . In 1994 came the comeback in Formula 1 with Simtek . The team was underfunded and lost Brabham's teammate Roland Ratzenberger in a fatal accident at the tragic weekend in Imola in 1994 . The year was a lost one; best placement was 10th place at the Spanish Grand Prix .

After 24 grand prizes, Formula 1 ended at the end of 1994. Successful years in sports cars followed: 1995 BTCC for BMW, 1996 Japanese GT championship with the McLaren F1 GTR - with a championship victory over Ralf Schumacher . David Brabham has been active in the American Le Mans Series since 1997 . He drove there for the works teams of Panoz and Aston Martin, among others . Brabham has been driving Acura's two Le Mans prototypes since 2007 and was runner-up in the LMP2 category on an Acura ARX-01b in 2008 .

In 2009 David Brabham celebrated the greatest success of his career. As a partner of Alexander Wurz and Marc Gené, he won the Le Mans 24-hour race for the first time in a Peugeot 908 HDi FAP.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1992	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	Geoff Lees	Ukyo Katayama	failure	Engine failure
1993	TWR Jaguar Racing	Jaguar XJ220C	John Nielsen	David Coulthard	failure	Disqualified
1996	Gulf Racing	McLaren F1 GTR	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	Lindsay Owen-Jones	Rank 5
1997	David Price Racing	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Perry McCarthy	Doc Bundy	failure	Wagon fire
1998	Panoz Motorsports Inc.	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Andy Wallace	Jamie Davies	Rank 7
1999	Panoz Motorsports Inc.	Panoz LMP-1	Eric Bernard	Butch Leitzinger	Rank 7
2000	Panoz Motorsport	Panoz LMP-1	Jan Magnussen	Mario Andretti	Rank 15
2001	Panoz Motorsport	Panoz LMP-1	Jan Magnussen	Franck Lagorce	failure	Gearbox damage
2002	Panoz Motorsport	Panoz LMP-1	Jan Magnussen	Bryan Herta	failure	Engine failure
2003	Team Bentley	Bentley Exp Speed ​​8	Johnny Herbert	Mark Blundell	Rank 2
2004	Zytek Engineering Ltd.	Zytek 04S	Andy Wallace	Hayanari Shimoda	failure	Engine failure
2005	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Stéphane Sarrazin	Darren Turner	Rank 9
2006	Russian Age Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Antonio García	Nelson Piquet junior	Rank 9
2007	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Rickard Rydell	Darren Turner	5th place and class win
2008	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Antonio García	Darren Turner	Rank 13 and class win
2009	Peugeot Sport Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Alexander Wurz	Marc Gené	Overall victory
2010	Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-01C	Marco Werner	Marino Franchitti	Rank 25
2012	JRM	HPD ARX-03a	Peter Dumbreck	Karun Chandhok	Rank 6

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1992	Bud Light Jaguar Racing	Jaguar XJR-12D	Davy Jones		Rank 4
1998	Panoz Motorsports	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Andy Wallace		Rank 2 and class win
1999	Panoz Racing	Panoz Esperante GTR-1	Eric Bernard		failure	Wagon fire
2000	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP-1 Roadster S.	Jan Magnussen	Pierre-Henri Raphanel	failure	Engine failure
2001	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP07	Jan Magnussen		failure	Clutch damage
2002	Panoz Motor Sports	Panoz LMP01	Jan Magnussen	Eric van de Poele	failure	Engine failure
2003	Team Bentley	Bentley Speed ​​8	Johnny Herbert	Mark Blundell	Rank 3
2004	ACEMCO Motorsports	Saleen S7-R	Terry Borcheller	Johnny Mowlem	Rank 23
2005	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	Darren Turner	Stéphane Ortelli	4th place and class win
2006	Multimatic Motorsports Team Panoz	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	Scott Maxwell	Sébastien Bourdais	Rank 8 and class win
2007	Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-01a	Stefan Johansson	Duncan Dayton	Rank 6
2008	Patron Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-01b	Stefan Johansson	Scott Sharp	Rank 5
2009	Patron Highcroft Racing	Acura ARX-02a	Dario Franchitti	Scott Sharp	failure	mechanics
2010	Patrón Highcroft Racing	HPD ARX-01c	Marino Franchitti	Simon Pagenaud	Rank 5
2011	Highcroft Racing	HPD ARX-01e	Marino Franchitti	Simon Pagenaud	Rank 2
2012	JRM	HPD ARX-03a	Karun Chandhok	Peter Dumbreck	Rank 16
2013	Extreme speed motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Guy Cosmo	Scott Sharp	Rank 36
2014	Extreme speed motorsports	HPD ARX-03b	Ryan Dalziel	Scott Sharp	Rank 2

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1991	jaguar	Jaguar XJR-14	SUZ	MON	SIL	LEM	ONLY	LIKE	MEX	AUT
							1	3	6th	3
1992	Toyota Team Tom's	Toyota TS010	MON	SIL	LEM	DON	SUZ	LIKE
					DNF	3	2	4th

Web links

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• David Brabham at Racing Sports Cars