Jack Brabham
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| First start: | 1955 British Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1970 Mexican Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1955 Cooper • 1956 Maserati • 1957–1961 Cooper • 1962–1970 Brabham | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | World Champion ( 1959 , 1960 , 1966 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 261 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | 31 | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | 823 over 4540.1 km | ||||||||
Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham , AO , OBE (born April 2, 1926 in Hurstville , New South Wales , † May 19, 2014 in Gold Coast , Queensland ) was an Australian racing driver who won the Formula 1 drivers' championship three times . He was also called "Black Jack" by his colleagues and the press because of his black hair.
life and career
Brabham was a mechanic for the Royal Australian Air Force from 1944 to 1946 and began designing his own sports cars in 1947. In his later professional career he also designed some of his cars himself.
From 1955 to 1970 he drove a total of 126 races in Formula 1 for the Cooper , Maserati , Lotus teams and for the Brabham team he founded himself . He won 14 races and was Formula 1 world champion three times ( 1959 , 1960 , 1966 ).
At the last race of the 1959 season, Brabham, as the leader of the world championship standings, surprisingly ran out of fuel several hundred meters from the finish line. However, he managed to push his car over the finish line in fourth place. Since only the best five results of a driver were included in the standings during the season, if Tony Brooks or Stirling Moss had won this race , he would have had to finish second in order to have more points than his title opponents. But since Brooks was only third and Moss was out, Brabham won his first World Championship despite the lack of fuel.
From 1961 to 1965 the engine displacement in Formula 1 was limited to 1500 cm³. Brabham did not win a world championship run during this time, but decided in 1963 the Formula 1 race on the Solitude , which was not part of the world championship. It was also the debut win for his own team. In 1966, the displacement was doubled to three liters, for which no team was prepared. Brabham had Repco build a relatively simple V8 engine based on high-volume components, with which he won the 1966 drivers' championship due to its reliability. This was also the first and so far only time that a driver in a self-constructed car became world champion.
When he retired from active racing in 1970 at the age of 44, the trade press was surprised that the Australian, who had been considered a taciturn interview partner, gave a dazzling and amusing speech. The background of his otherwise short answers was his hearing loss, which he attributed to the high noise level of the mid-mounted motors directly behind the driver.
In 1998, at the age of 72, he drove a VW New Beetle in the VLN 6-hour race on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife .
In 1979, Brabham was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II . In 2008 he was awarded the title of Officer of the Order of Australia for his contributions to motorsport as an ambassador, mentor and promoter of safety and to the community through supporting charities. Most recently he lived in Surfers Paradise , Australia. After a long illness, he died in May 2014 at the age of 88 at his home.
Formula 2
Brabham was British Formula 2 champion in 1958 and 1966 . In the 1965 Formula 2 season, he drove the Brabham- Honda BT16 in five races, finishing second and ninth, and the fastest lap in two races. In the 1966 season he drove with his team-mate Denis Hulme in the Brabham-Honda BT18 . He won this Formula 2 championship with 36 points and ten wins in twelve races, ahead of Hulme with 28 points.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
Grand Prix victories
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general overview
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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| 1957 |
Cooper Car Company
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Cooper T39 |
Ian Raby
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David Brown Racing Development
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Aston Martin DBR1 / 300 |
Stirling Moss
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failure | connecting rod |
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Equipe Matra Simca
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Matra MS650 |
François Cevert
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failure | Engine failure |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
| season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14th | 15th | 16 | 17th | 18th | 19th | 20th | 21st | 22nd |
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| 1955 | O'Shea Racing | Cooper T39 |
BUA
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SEB
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MIM
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LEM
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RTT
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TAR
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| 1957 | cooper | Cooper T39 |
BUA
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SEB
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MIM
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ONLY
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LEM
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 KRI
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 CAR
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| 15th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1958 | Aston Martin | Aston Martin DBR1 |
BUA
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SEB
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TAR
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ONLY
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LEM
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RTT
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| 1 | DNF | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959 | John Coombs Racing Organization | Cooper T49 |
SEB
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TAR
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ONLY
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LEM
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RTT
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| 1963 | Brabham |
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SEB
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SEB
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TAR
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SPA
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MAY
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ONLY
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CON
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ROS
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LEM
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MON
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WIS
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TAV
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FRE
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CCE
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RTT
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ONLY
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MON
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MON
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TDF
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BRI
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| 1964 | Brabham |
DAY
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SEB
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TAR
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MON
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SPA
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CON
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ONLY
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ROS
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LEM
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REI
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FRE
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CCE
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RTT
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SIM
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ONLY
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MON
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TDF
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BRI
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BRI
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PAR
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| 1967 | Sid Taylor Racing | Lola T70 |
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SEB
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MON
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SPA
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TAR
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ONLY
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LEM
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HOK
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MUG
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BRH
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CCE
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ZEL
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OVI
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| 1970 | Matra | Matra MS650 |
DAY
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SEB
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BRH
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MON
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TAR
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SPA
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ONLY
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LEM
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WAT
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ZEL
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| 10 | 12 | 5 | DNF | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Eminence TR | Ford Capri III 3.0S |
DAY
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SEB
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MUG
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MON
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RIV
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SIL
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ONLY
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LEM
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BY
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WAT
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SPA
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MOS
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ROA
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BRH
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| 1984 | Porsche | Porsche 956 |
MON
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SIL
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LEM
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ONLY
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BRH
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MOS
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SPA
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IMO
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 FUJ
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 KYA
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SAN
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literature
- Jack Brabham, Doug Nye: The Jack Brabham Story. Pavilion Books, London 2004, ISBN 1-86205-651-X .
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Litsky: Jack Brabham, 88, Who raced and built Formula One Winners, this. Obituary in The New York Times on May 19, 2014 (accessed May 20, 2014).
- ^ Brabham, Nye: The Jack Brabham Story. 2004, p. 22 ff.
- ↑ It's an Honor. Australia Government, accessed July 22, 2010 .
- ^ Formula 1: Three-time world champion Jack Brabham is dead . In: Spiegel Online , May 19, 2014.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brabham, Jack |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brabham, John Arthur (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian Formula 1 racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 2, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hurstville , Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | 19th May 2014 |
| Place of death | Gold Coast (Australia) |