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Sir John Arthur "Jack" Brabham (2 April 1926 – 19 May 2014) was an Australian racing driver and motorsport executive, who competed in Formula One from 1955 to 1970.Brabham won three Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won in 1959, 1960 and 1966, and won 14 Grands Prix across 16 seasons.
The 1955 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at the Port Wakefield Circuit in South Australia on 10 October 1955. The race, which had 22 starters, was held over 80 laps of the 2.09 km (1.3 mi) circuit.
There have been 19 Formula One drivers from Australia, 16 of which have taken part in at least one race since the championship began in 1950, and 3 failed to qualify.Two drivers who represented Australia have won the World Drivers' Championship: Jack Brabham, who won it three times, and Alan Jones, the most recent Australian world champion won once.
The Brabham team was founded by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia. Brabham, who was a highly successful dirt oval speedway Speedcar driver with multiple Australian national and state titles to his credit before moving full time into road racing in 1953 ...
The Gnoo Blas Motor Racing Circuit was a motor racing circuit at Orange, New South Wales, Australia. The circuit was formed from rural roads and highways outside the town, around the grounds of Bloomfield Hospital and what is now known as Sir Jack Brabham Park. It was 6.03 km (3.75 mi) long.
Jack Brabham took his first of three AGP wins in 1955 at the short Port Wakefield Circuit in South Australia. The race is significant in that Brabham was driving a Bristol powered Cooper T40, the first ever rear-engine car to win the Grand Prix.
Repco Brabham badge on the nose of a Repco Brabham BT6 racing car. When Jack Brabham began building racing cars in England he named his cars Repco Brabhams, [18] the result of a sponsorship deal between Brabham and Repco. [19] This name was applied regardless of the engine used, [20] and the arrangement existed through to the end of the 1960s. [21]
Jack Brabham won the race driving a Repco Brabham BT4, similar to the example pictured above. The 1963 Australian Grand Prix was a motor race held at Warwick Farm Raceway in New South Wales, Australia on 10 February 1963. Open to Formula Libre cars, [2] [3] it was the opening heat of the 1963 Australian Drivers' Championship.