Brabham Racing Organization

Brabham Racing Organization (more commonly called Brabham ) is an old stable of Formule 1, in activity between the seasons 1962 and 1992.

History

The Brabham stable was rested by the racing driver Jack Brabham. World champion of the drivers in 1959 and 1960 on a Cooper-Climax, it decides in parallel to assemble his own structure, baptized MRD (for Motor Racing Development ), in collaboration with Ron Tauranac, a friend and Australian engineer.

At the end of 1961, the services of the Cooper being declining, Brabham Jack and Ron Tauranac decide to make the great jump and of launching their team in the championship of the world of Formula 1. It should be noted that if name MRD remains, the stable is committed under the name of Brabham (the Swiss journalist Gerard Crombac, founder of the magazine Sport-Car, having made include/understand in Jack Brabham which name MRD did not sound very well in the French-speaking countries). First Brabham de Formule 1 (answering in the name of code BT3, " B" for Brabham and " T" for Tauranac) carries out its great beginnings in championship at the time of the GP of Germany 1962.

In spite of hard beginnings, the new stable progresses quickly in the hierarchy. Sign success, Brabham are also particularly appraisals by the private stables which appreciate serious constructions of the Australian duet, that it is in Formula 1 or Formulates 2 of them. The linear progression of the Brabham team leads in 1966 to a historical performance: Jack Brabham is crowned world champion at the wheel of a car of its own stable, stable which also gains the title of the manufacturers. Then, in 1967, the New Zealand pilot Denny Hulme succeeds the prize list his owner and fellow-member.

At the conclusion of the season 1970, Jack Brabham decides to take its retirement of pilot but also to withdraw world of the race. It yields its shares of the stable to its associate Ron Tauranac, which at the end of one only season resells the team with the British businessman Bernie Ecclestone.

Under the impulse of Bernie Ecclestone as from 1972, the Brabham team experiences a new development, which becomes in particular by the confidence granted to the brilliance young South-African engineer Gordon Murray. But in spite of a partnership with the motor mechanic Alfa Romeo and the presence of pilots as famous as Carlos Reutemann or later Niki Lauda, the Brabham stable arrives only to glaner some episodical victories, without truly being able to aim at the world title.

It is necessary to await the beginning of the year 1980 so that Brabham concretizes its return to the top. With the BT49 with engine Cosworth, new realization of Gordon Murray, Brazilian the Nelson Piquet becomes vice-champion of the world into 1980 before taking down the world title in 1981. But the Brabham team does not rest on her bay-trees: perfectly conscious of the evolution of Formula 1, Bernie Ecclestone signs a partnership with the manufacturer BMW for the supply of a turbo engine. In 1983, on Brabham-BMW, Nelson Piquet becomes thus the first pilot of the history of Formula 1 crowned on a turbo engine car. This season 1983 is for the Brabham stable a top which it will reach never again. While Bernie Ecclestone is more and more monopolized by its functions within the FOCA then of the FISA and is disengaged gradually of the team, the Brabham stable and its BMW motor mechanic start a slow decline.

In 1985, Nelson Piquet signs with the GP of France the very last victory of the stable. The Brabham team also knows a drama in 1986 with the fatal accident of the Italian pilot Elio de Angelis, victim of a rupture of aileron at a meeting of tests on the circuit of Castellet in the VAr.

In 1988, the Brabham stable withdraws championship of the world temporarily, to make its return in 1989 with a new owner, Switzerland Joachim Luhti. In spite of some rare blows of glare, the stable from now on is condemned to the funds of grid. The arrival of a new owner (the Japanese consortium Middlebridge) at the beginning of 1990 changes nothing there. Financially bloodless, the team tries to find new sponsors while making speak about it. For that, it recruits in 1992 the Belgian pilot Eric van of Stove but especially Giovanna Amati, first woman in F1 since Lella Lombardi in 1976. It will be a waste of time and effort and Brabham puts the key under the door during the season 1992.

Prize list

Four championships of the world of the pilots in F1:

Two championships of the world of the manufacturers in F1:

1966
1967

See too

Jack Brabham

External bond

Images of cars Brabham

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