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“Dad wasn\u2019t a great talker. But it always stuck that when I first started racing he looked at me and said \u2018David, it\u2019s all in here\u2019.\u201d At those words, his face hardens and for a moment it\u2019s as if Jack Brabham<\/a> is back with us. The grit in the voice, the determined heavy brow, the straight mouth, those close-set eyes boring into mine as he points an index finger to his temple\u2026 He looks so much like his old man it\u2019s startling.<\/p>\n

David Brabham<\/a>, the youngest of Jack\u2019s three sons, openly admits that he didn\u2019t have the easiest of relationships with his father. No surprise there, given the granite-hewn character we\u2019re talking about. But little more than two years after Jack\u2019s death at the age of 88, the memories are predominantly affectionate, and pride flows to the top of the brim, just as you\u2019d hope for one of the greatest of motor racing men.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s 50 years since Brabham carved what is likely to remain a unique place in history by becoming Formula 1<\/a> world champion in an eponymous chassis. The back-to-back titles for Cooper<\/a> in 1959-60 were perhaps landmarks of greater significance to the sport as a whole, given the placing of Climax\u2019s engine behind Jack\u2019s hunched shoulders rather than ahead of his feet. But this third one was personal, a confirmation that even as an \u2018old man\u2019 of 40 here was a genuine motor racing colossus, as a driver, engineer, gilt-edged sportsman \u2013 take your pick.<\/p>\n

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David Brabham, sat next to his father as the family relaxes at the family home in Switzerland<\/p>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

Down at Goodwood<\/a>, the anniversary won\u2019t go unnoticed. At the Revival on September 9-11 it will be Jack\u2019s turn to be honoured as Bruce McLaren<\/a>, Jackie Stewart<\/a>, John Surtees<\/a> and Dan Gurney<\/a> have been in previous years, with a gathering of his cars to be demonstrated and displayed. David has been deeply involved with the mission to source them, including the genuine 1966 BT19 that\u2019s coming all the way from \u2018Down Under\u2019. Today he has agreed to meet me, at the Unicorn in the bustling Oxfordshire village of Deddington, to talk solely about the man he just knew as \u2018Dad\u2019.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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\u201cIn the history of grand prix racing, there\u2019s one era when I wish I\u2019d been an adult and that was the 1960s,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was such an amazing period, actually not just for racing but for life on this planet. There was so much change going on. People got liberated.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back on \u201966, you had two of Dad\u2019s previous team-mates in Dan Gurney and Bruce McLaren coming out with their own grand prix cars to try and become the first to win a championship in a car of their own production.\u201d But it was Jack who was ahead of the game.<\/p>\n

He was supposed to be winding down the driving by this time, thanks to the pincer pressures of his age and a burgeoning customer racing car business. He had Gurney and promising Kiwi Denny Hulme<\/a> to hold the front line \u2013 until Dan left to form Eagle. As F1\u2019s \u2018return to power\u2019 3-litre era dawned, this was no time to throttle back. Armed with an American-sourced V8 tuned by old contacts at Repco, mated to a typically no-nonsense spaceframe from his plain speaking partner Ron Tauranac<\/a>, Brabham was ready to make hay. The rule change, despite a three-year notice period, appeared to catch most on the hop \u2013 especially when Coventry Climax<\/a> made the shock announcement that it wouldn\u2019t play to the new capacity. Yes, Colin Chapman<\/a> and Cosworth<\/a> were sowing the seeds for the DFV, but that was more than a year away from bloom. Meanwhile Ferrari<\/a> had its heavy, sports car-derived V12, but with John Surtees at its head Maranello was still well placed \u2013 until politics pushed the \u201964 champion over the edge. After his final win in red at Spa, he walked and pitched up at past-its-best Cooper.<\/p>\n

Brabham consequently stormed through the summer, claiming four grands prix in a row \u2013 the French, British, Dutch and German \u2013 to lay hold of an unchallenged crown.<\/p>\n

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Brabham was successful first with Cooper, then his own eponymous team<\/p>\n

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The perception has lingered that Brabham\u2019s achievement in \u201966 is undervalued in comparison to the feats of others such as Clark<\/a> during the same era. Perhaps it\u2019s the \u2018interim\u2019 nature of that Grand Prix season, as teams scrabbled for short-term, or at least severely compromised, power solutions. Jim Clark\u2019s Lotus<\/a>, for example, was hobbled first by a Climax engine of only two litres, then by BRM\u2019s hulking (and unreliable) H16; likewise Graham Hill<\/a> and Jackie Stewart in the constructor\u2019s works cars. But rather than undermine Brabham\u2019s success, his nous to develop a winning package should enhance it \u2013 and as ever, his ability behind the wheel couldn\u2019t be underestimated.<\/p>\n

“Brabham was a pioneer in more ways than one”<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a driver, my own purple patch \u2013 where I was at such a level that whatever car I drove I felt I could beat anyone \u2013 was 44,\u201d says David. \u201cThe same age that Dad retired. When I turned 40 I looked at what Dad achieved at the same age in \u201966 and it blew me away: how he was able to focus on the business, focus on the race team, develop the cars in all the formulas, then jump into a grand prix car \u2013 against guys who only raced, remember. And they were bloody good, too, the likes of Clark, Graham Hill and so on.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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\u201cDon\u2019t forget he also dominated F2 in \u201966 [with Honda power] and could have won the F1 title again in 1967 when Denny was champion. He was developing cars and trying new bits, which didn\u2019t always work. Denny said to me, \u2018For sure, if your dad hadn\u2019t dicked around with the bloody cars he probably would have won the championship.\u2019 Denny had the reliable one, did a great job and won the championship. But they were pretty close at the end, after another dominant display.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he retired [at the end of 1970] he felt he still had more years left in him. He could have won the championship in that final season. He won the first race in South Africa<\/a>, should have won Monaco<\/a> and Brands Hatch<\/a>\u2026 and both times Jochen Rindt<\/a> beat him. If he\u2019d won those two GPs it would have been a great fight.\u201d<\/p>\n

Brabham was a pioneer in more ways than one. Juan Manuel Fangio<\/a>, Stirling Moss<\/a> and later Jackie Stewart are regularly credited for ushering in the concept of the \u2018professional racing driver\u2019. But this tough nut from Australia, who cut his teeth racing midget \u2018speedcars\u2019 on the dirt tracks in and around Sydney, made his own significant contribution to pushing the game on.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve got to remember when Dad came over in 1955 motor racing was very much a gentleman\u2019s deal,\u201d says David. \u201cSo who was this rough nut? He was aggressive on the track and went to boundaries no one had really gone to in his attempts to win a race. He started to change the mindset of drivers coming through to be a bit more like him. Once that helmet went on you are talking about a different character, which is true for a lot of us. He was never flamboyant, he was a grafter. But when he put his mind to it he could beat any of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Ron Tauranac with Jack Brabham \u2013 a winning combination<\/p>\n

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The influence of Ron Tauranac on the Brabham story can never be overstated, even from Jack\u2019s earliest days racing in Britain. Sadly, the \u2018T\u2019 from the \u2018BT\u2019 type numbers will be a notable absentee at the Goodwood celebrations, because of ill health, but David is keen that he won\u2019t be forgotten. It\u2019s one of the great motor racing partnerships, up there with Chapman<\/a> and Clark, Tyrrell<\/a> and Stewart. But given the nature of their characters, they didn\u2019t always rub along smoothly. Should they be described as friends? \u201cOh yes,\u201d says David. \u201cBut when you say \u2018relationship\u2019, you\u2019re talking about guys who got through the end of the war [both served in the Royal Australian Air Force]. They were particular characters\u2026 they weren\u2019t lovey-dovey! It was a case of \u2018This is how we do it. If you don\u2019t bloody do it like that, you\u2019re out.\u2019<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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\u201cWhen you think about how different they were, their relationship lasted forever. They never fell out enough for it to finish\u2026\u201d They\u2019d met back in Australia when midget racer Jack was a rapid interloper on the hillclimb scene. Mutual appreciation was formed early on.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd of course they both built their own cars,\u201d says David. \u201cDad always remembered Ron and his skill sets. When he was doing the Cooper stuff Dad would produce drawings, say \u2018This is what I want\u2019, send them by airmail to Ron and he\u2019d do the magic of the design. He\u2019d ship the paperwork back to England and Dad would then go and make it. He was involved as far back as Dad winning his first two world championships. Not many people know that.<\/p>\n

\u201cDuring that time Dad didn\u2019t feel Cooper was heading in the right direction, saw another opportunity for himself and brought Ron over. They were starting the process of building cars as early as \u201960. Their plan was to create a team and build customer cars for sale. At the time Cooper and Lotus dominated the world of race cars, but by the mid-60s Brabham was three or four times bigger than they were.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Brabham during his final year of F1 competition in 1970<\/p>\n <\/figcaption>\n <\/figure>\n

The customer angle was essential to Motor Racing Developments Ltd, the company behind Brabham racing cars. Tauranac was its driving force. \u201cVery quickly the pair hit the market with a product, in a dangerous period,\u201d says David. \u201cRon was very pernickety, not about how light a car was, but how strong it was, from a rigidity and safety point of view.\u201d While Lotus broke F1 ground with its lightweight monocoques, Tauranac \u2013 with one eye firmly on his customer base \u2013 persevered with spaceframes. \u201cDad would do all the testing and development, so it was his neck on the line, plus he was an engineer with great intuition. Together they ended up dominating the world of F1 and the customer car market.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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For David, this is all second-hand history. He was born in 1965, so his memories of Jack\u2019s racing days are next to zero. \u201cMy first memory of the UK was Big Ben in Westminster. I always remember looking out of the window at St Thomas\u2019 Hospital because Dad had his accident and was in there [a broken leg, mid-season testing at Silverstone, 1969]. But I remember nothing to do with his racing, although I did go to some. I\u2019ve seen pictures of the Hill kids \u2013 Damon and Samantha and myself \u2013 playing in a swimming pool. But [older brother] Geoffrey obviously remembers a lot more about that era because he was 14 when Dad won the championship in \u201966.\u201d<\/p>\n

David grew up in Australia, once his father had retired from racing and took his family back home. \u201cAs a kid growing up in Sydney, from about five to the age of 12, I didn\u2019t appreciate what Dad did,\u201d he recalls. \u201cWhere I\u2019d walk to the kitchen from my bedroom there was a corridor and a wall of squares with trophies in them. But they were objects, just bits of metal to me. Normally when I was walking down that corridor I had a football or a skateboard in my hand. That was me! But every time someone would come to the house they would look at all these amazing trophies. I\u2019d be thinking \u2018What are you looking at?\u2019<\/p>\n

\u201cThen I went to an agricultural boarding school. Dad was quite a big name in Australia during that period \u2013 huge, in fact. He was on TV ads, everyone knew who Jack Brabham was. The first thing people would say about me was: \u2018That\u2019s Jack Brabham\u2019s son.\u2019 I heard that so many times! To me he was just my Dad.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt probably wasn\u2019t until I started racing karts and then Formula Ford, and started mixing with the racing world \u2013 which I hadn\u2019t done before \u2013 that I started to understand what he\u2019d achieved.\u201d<\/p>\n

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David says father Jack’s presence was intermittent during difficult racing years \u2013 here he is at the disastrous revived Brabham team in 1990<\/p>\n

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Talk to David about the roots of his own career in racing, and it becomes clear his interest grew organically and entirely independently of his father. In fact, it not only took Jack by surprise, but perhaps David too. Now, having hit his own half-century, can he see Brabham character traits that carried over from father to son?<\/p>\n

\u201cMy wife will tell you there\u2019s a lot, a lot more than I\u2019d probably admit,\u201d he smiles \u2013 through gritted teeth! \u201cI know I\u2019ve got traits of my dad in me. I have a particular work ethic, I guess, and an expectation of myself.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also a pleasing, if entirely coincidental, parallel to Jack\u2019s dirt track racing roots. \u201cMy versatility was always very good and some of that came from the farm,\u201d says David. \u201cIf it was a tractor, a motorbike, a ute, a normal car \u2013 whatever it was I would drive flat out, as fast as I could go on the dirt, and try and drift as far as I could. Each felt different. Even though I didn\u2019t think about being a racing driver, I loved driving on the edge. That was inherent in me. Those years on the farm, I nearly killed myself\u2026 Then I jumped in a kart and was fast straight away. They didn\u2019t know I\u2019d been \u2018training\u2019 on the farm for so long.\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n

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When Simon Taylor interviewed David for this magazine in October 2012<\/a>, he told a key story from his early career, when he stormed through from the back of the field to win in Adelaide<\/a> at an Australian Grand Prix support race. The intense performance had followed a row with his dad on the grid, their relationship having already come under strain by David\u2019s news that his then-girlfriend was pregnant with his son Jason.<\/p>\n

\u201cBecause he was away a lot I really grew up with my mum,\u201d says David. \u201cShe brought me up more than Dad did.\u201d He admits they grew closer when he followed in his dad\u2019s footsteps and left for England to pursue his racing ambitions. But his parents\u2019 divorce, relatively late in life in the 1990s, put further strain on their relationship. Jack\u2019s habit of disappearing when David\u2019s career hit choppy waters didn\u2019t help either\u2026<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I started racing over here and I was doing Formula 3, I was winning a lot \u2013 and so I saw Jack a lot,\u201d he smiles. \u201cWhen I went to F1 in a Brabham that was full of problems I didn\u2019t see him! Right when I really needed you, Dad\u2026 But he wasn\u2019t like that. He was gone because he could see it was a disaster.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe clashed quite a bit. I didn\u2019t always agree with what he did and I told him so. There would be a falling out and then we\u2019d get back together again, and it was a bit like that all the way through, until\u2026 1995, \u201996. From then on until the end of his life we had a pretty good relationship. I kind of got him and he got me, which was nice because now I have no regrets. You\u2019re young and you have an opinion, and you don\u2019t understand the full picture\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n

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David is genuinely excited about the Goodwood celebration of his father and perhaps it might be just what he needs right now. It hasn\u2019t been the easiest of years. His work continues to revive the Brabham name as a force in motor racing, but it\u2019s far from straightforward, while the family has been rocked by estranged middle brother Gary\u2019s conviction for child sex offences in Australia. The Revival will offer a timely reminder of Jack\u2019s incredible achievements half a century ago and allow David one final opportunity to celebrate the legend \u2013 but more importantly the Dad \u2013 he knew.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s not easy to say this, but I can never remember my dad saying \u2018I love you\u2019,\u201d he says. \u201cIt was just never said \u2013 not to say that he didn\u2019t. My mum was very similar, she found it hard to say. I don\u2019t know whether it was their up-bringing\u2026 I tell my kids and wife I love them every day. So I\u2019m a different character like that.\u201d<\/p>\n

They are different men, from entirely different times. But you sense Jack\u2019s presence will always be an influence on David\u2019s life. \u201cYes, there are times where I can get quite stubborn. And I just have to look in the mirror\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"author":747,"featured_media":1408024,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[118712,124748],"tags":[167,123751],"issue_decade":[121600],"issue_year":[121675],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/53880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/747"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53880"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/53880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1408047,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/53880\/revisions\/1408047"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1408024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53880"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=53880"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=53880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}