Brabham is a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960, the team won four Drivers’ and two Constructors’ World Championships in its 30-year Formula One history. Jack Brabham’s 1966 FIA Drivers’ Championship remains the only such achievement using a car bearing the driver’s own name.
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Brabham is a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team. Founded in 1960, the team won four Drivers’ and two Constructors’ World Championships in its 30-year Formula One history. Jack Brabham’s 1966 FIA Drivers’ Championship remains the only such achievement using a car bearing the driver’s own name. The team won two more Formula One Drivers’ Championships in the 1980s with Brazilian Nelson Piquet. Its last owner was the Middlebridge Group, a Japanese engineering firm. In 2009, an unsuccessful attempt was made by a German organisation to enter the 2010 Formula One season using the Brab Ham name. BrabHam cars also competed in the Indianapolis 500 and in Formula 5000 racing. The company was the world’s largest manufacturer of open-wheel racing cars for sale to customer teams; by 1970 it had built more than 500 cars. Its unique Gordon Murray-designed ‘fan car’ won its only race before being withdrawn. In the 1960s and 1970s, teams using Brabha cars won championships in Formula Two and Formula Three. The new company produced the first MRD car for the entry level Junior class, in secrecy, in the summer of 1961. The MRD cars were subsequently known as Brabams, with type numbers starting with BT for those starting with those initials. By 1961, the Formula One cars were known as BT-Brabacs, starting with another type of BT for that season’s Formula One race.
By the 1961 F1 season, the BT-brabhams had achieved a second-place finish at Goodwood Park and another at Mallory Park, Goodwood, with another start and finish in the Goodwood Grand Prix. The name MRD is phonetically, ’emetically, air’—sounded like the French word merde… ’emcee’ (pronounced ’em-de-de’ or’m-cee-de’). The company went bankrupt in 1992 after failing to make repayments against loans provided by Landhurst Leasing. The case was investigated by the United Kingdom Serious Fraud Office. The last owner of the team was British businessman Bernie Ecclestone during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One. The British F1 team was sold to a Japanese firm, Middlebridge, during the 1990s. The current owner is the Japanese-based firm, Nippon Yusen, which won the F1 constructors’ championship in 2012. The Formula One team was founded in 1960 by Australian driver Jack Br abham and British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac, who met in 1951 while both were successfully building and racing cars in their native Australia. It won the 1959 and 1960 F1 World Championship in Cooper’s revolutionary mid-engined cars. It also won the 1981 F1 Championship in the ground effect BT49-Ford, and became the first to win a Drivers’ championship with a turbocharged car, in 1983.
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