biography
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Brabham, Jack
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popular name of Sir John Arthur Brabham
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pronunciation:
[brabuhm]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1926– )
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| biography:
| Motor-racing driver and constructor, born in Sydney, New South Wales, SE Australia. He served with the Royal Australian Air Force, and started his racing career in 1947. After winning the Australian Grand Prix in 1955, he went to the UK, where he joined the successful Cooper team. He won his first Formula 1 World Drivers' Championship at Sebring, FL, in 1959 by pushing his car over the finishing-line, and won the title again the following year. In 1962 he set up his own team and won his third world title and the Constructor's Championship in a car of his own design, the only driver to have done so. He won the Constructor's Championship again in 1967. He retired from racing in 1970, and was knighted in 1979. |
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