Editing Brabham (section)

===Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac (1961–1970)===
[[File:Brabham BT3.jpg|thumb|left|alt=A mid-engined single-seater racing car with no aerodynamic wings|The [[Brabham BT3]], the first Brabham Formula One design]]

Motor Racing Developments initially concentrated on making money by building cars for sale to customers in lower formulae, so the new car for the Formula One team was not ready until partway through the [[1962 Formula One season]]. The Brabham Racing Organisation (BRO) started the year fielding a customer Lotus chassis, which was delivered at 3am to keep it a secret.<ref name=IMS162/> Brabham took two points finishes in Lotuses, before the turquoise-[[livery|liveried]] Brabham BT3 car made its debut at the [[1962 German Grand Prix]]. It retired with a [[throttle]] problem after 9 of the 15 laps, but went on to take a pair of fourth places at the end of the season.<ref>Henry (1985) pp. 21–22. Brabham bought a new spaceframe Lotus 24, but had to use a 1961-vintage Lotus 21 in the early races after a workshop fire. Team Lotus reserved the monocoque Lotus 25 for their own use that season.</ref>

From the [[1963 Formula One season|1963 season]], Brabham was partnered by American driver [[Dan Gurney]], the pair now running in Australia's [[List of international auto racing colors|racing colours]] of green and gold.<ref>Brabham, Nye (2004) p. 147</ref> Brabham took the team's first win at the non-championship [[Solituderennen|Solitude Grand Prix]] in 1963.<ref>Henry (1985) p. 28</ref> Gurney took the [[marque]]'s first two wins in the world championship, at the 1964 [[1964 French Grand Prix|French]] and [[1964 Mexican Grand Prix|Mexican]] Grands Prix. Brabham works and customer cars took another three non-championship wins during the [[1964 Formula One season|1964 season]].<ref>Henry (1985) pp. 35–41</ref> The [[1965 Formula One season|1965 season]] was less successful, with no championship wins. Brabham finished third or fourth in the Constructors' Championship for three years running, but poor reliability marred promising performances on several occasions. Motor sport authors Mike Lawrence and David Hodges have said that a lack of resources may have cost the team results, a view echoed by Tauranac.<ref>Tauranac says (Lawrence (1999) p. 48) that he feels a third mechanic would have reduced the reliability problems. Lawrence himself notes (Lawrence (1999) p. 71) that "If only Jack had been prepared to spend a little more money, the results could have been so much better." Hodges (1990) p. 32 notes "Economy was a watchword. (...) It was this attitude, perhaps, which cost [Brabham] some races."</ref>

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The FIA doubled the Formula One engine capacity limit to 3&nbsp;litres for the [[1966 Formula One season|1966 season]] and suitable engines were scarce. Brabham used engines from Australian engineering firm [[Repco]], which had never produced a Formula One engine before, based on aluminium V8 [[engine block]]s from the defunct American [[Oldsmobile]] F85 road car project, and other off-the-shelf parts.<ref>Lawrence (1999) pp. 51–52</ref> Consulting and design engineer [[Phil Irving]] (of [[Vincent Motorcycle]] fame) was the project engineer responsible for producing the initial version of the engine. Few expected the Brabham-Repcos to be competitive,<ref>Unique p. 43. The team was the only one not contracted by [[John Frankenheimer]] for the shooting of the film ''[[Grand Prix (1966 film)|Grand Prix]]'' at world championship races that year.</ref> but the light and reliable cars ran at the front from the start of the season. At the [[1966 French Grand Prix|French Grand Prix]] at [[Reims-Gueux]], Brabham became the first man to win a Formula One world championship race in a car bearing his own name. Only his former teammate, [[Bruce McLaren]], has since matched the achievement. It was the first in a run of four straight wins for the Australian veteran. Brabham won his third title in 1966, becoming the only driver to win the Formula One World Championship in a car carrying his own name (''cf'' [[Surtees Racing Organisation|Surtees]], [[Hill (constructor)|Hill]] and [[Fittipaldi Automotive]]). In [[1967 Formula One season|1967]], the title went to Brabham's teammate, New Zealander [[Denny Hulme]]. Hulme had better reliability through the year, possibly due to Brabham's desire to try new parts first.<ref>Lawrence (1999) p. 92. Hulme, Tauranac and Frank Hallam, Repco-Brabham's chief engineer, all shared this view.</ref> The Brabham team took the Constructors' World Championship in both years.<ref>Fearnley (May 2006) pp. 34–40</ref>

[[File:1970 Brands Hatch Race of Champions Jack Brabham BT33.jpg|thumb|alt=A mid-engined single-seater racing car with modest aerodynamic wings|[[Brabham BT33]]. Technically conservative, Brabham did not produce a [[monocoque]] car until 1970.]]

For [[1968 Formula One season|1968]], Austrian [[Jochen Rindt]] replaced Hulme, who had left to join [[McLaren]]. Repco produced a more powerful version of their V8 to maintain competitiveness against Ford's new [[Cosworth DFV]], but it proved very unreliable. Slow communications between the UK and Australia had always made identifying and correcting problems very difficult. The car was fast—Rindt set [[pole position]] twice during the season—but Brabham and Rindt finished only three races between them, and ended the year with only ten points.<ref>Fearnley (May 2006) p. 41</ref>

Although Brabham bought Cosworth DFV engines for the [[1969 Formula One season|1969 season]], Rindt left to join Lotus. His replacement, [[Jacky Ickx]], had a strong second half to the season, winning in [[1969 German Grand Prix|Germany]] and [[1969 Canadian Grand Prix|Canada]], after Brabham was sidelined by a testing accident.<ref>Henry p. 85</ref> Ickx finished second in the Drivers' Championship, with 37&nbsp;points to [[Jackie Stewart]]'s 63. Brabham himself took a couple of pole positions and two top-3 finishes, but did not finish half the races. The team were second in the Constructors' Championship, aided by second places at [[1969 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco]] and [[1969 United States Grand Prix|Watkins Glen]] scored by [[Piers Courage]], driving a Brabham for the [[Frank Williams Racing Cars]] privateer squad.<ref>Henry (1985) pp. 79–80</ref>

Brabham took his last win in the opening race of the [[1970 Formula One season|1970 season]] and was competitive throughout the year, although mechanical failures blunted his challenge.<ref>Henry (1985) p. 93</ref> After losing secured victories in the last corner at both Monaco and England, Jack decided he had had enough, and sold his part in the company to former Jochen Rindt manager, a businessman named Bernie Ecclestone, at the end of the year. Aided by number-two driver [[Rolf Stommelen]], the team came fourth in the Constructors' Championship.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Brabham|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/database/teams/brabham/|url-status=live|access-date=11 April 2021|website=Motor Sport|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701215521/http://www.motorsportmagazine.com:80/database/teams/brabham |archive-date=1 July 2017 }}</ref>