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Brabham

[ brab-uhm ]

noun

  1. Sir John Arthur Jack, 1926–2014, Australian racing-car driver and designer.


Brabham

/ ˈbræbəm /

noun

  1. BrabhamSir John Arthur1926MAustralianSPORT AND GAMES: racing driver Sir John Arthur , known as Jack . born 1926, Australian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion 1959, 1960, and 1966
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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By the end of the race, only Jack Brabham had managed to stay on the same lap - and he was nearly five minutes behind the Scot.

From BBC

And 1983, when Brabham's Nelson Piquet was 14 points - the equivalent of 43 points now - behind Prost with three races to go and won.

From BBC

In a portent of things to come, Australian Jack Brabham finished ninth in a Cooper Climax, a modified version of the car he drove in European Formula One races.

Gurney, at the time a Formula One regular from Costa Mesa, had convinced English car builder Colin Chapman that a rear-engine car could win the 500 if only it had a stronger power plant than the one that had been in Brabham’s Cooper.

He had been hired by Bernie Ecclestone, then the owner of the Brabham team and chief executive of the Formula One Constructors’ Association.

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