How It Ended
Final years and legacy.
Brabham last raced in 1992, by then a shell of the team Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac had built. Its assets were sold and the name has not returned to Formula One.
History
Origins, eras and the people who shaped them.
Jack Brabham founded the team with the designer Ron Tauranac while still a double world champion driving for Cooper. In 1966 he won the drivers' championship in a car carrying his own name — the only person ever to do so — and Denny Hulme repeated the constructors' success for the team the following year.
Bernie Ecclestone bought Brabham in 1971 and ran it for fifteen years, a period in which he simultaneously built the commercial structure of Formula One itself. Under designer Gordon Murray the team produced some of the most radical cars ever raced, including the BT46B 'fan car' that won its only race at Anderstorp in 1978 and was then withdrawn.
Nelson Piquet won drivers' titles for Brabham in 1981 and 1983, the second with a BMW turbo engine — the first championship won with a turbocharged car. The team declined sharply after Ecclestone sold it and folded in 1992.
Lineage
Formula One entries change names, owners and manufacturers; the entry itself persists.
- 1962–1992Motor Racing Developments, racing as Brabham
Drivers Who Defined the Team
Every name links to a full profile.
Timeline
The moments that changed the team's direction.