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Brabham, whose legal name was Motor Racing Developments Ltd., was a British company that built racing cars and ran a Formula One team. It was founded in 1962 by the Australian driver Jack Brabham and the designer Ron Tauranac, who had met in 1951 while both were building and racing cars in Australia. In its early years the company concentrated on making money by building cars for lower formulae, and by 1970 it had built more than 500 cars for customer teams, which made it the largest builder of open-wheel racing cars in the world. The businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned the company during most of the 1970s and 1980s and later took charge of the commercial side of Formula One. Under his ownership the company dropped customer car production to concentrate on its own team. He sold Motor Racing Developments in 1988, and the company failed financially midway through the 1992 season, when its new owner, the Japanese engineering firm Middlebridge, did not make its loan repayments.

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Founded Year
1961 2
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1962 1
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Defunct 1
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Racing Team 1
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Source Just Cars: FEATURE - 1965 Brabham BT16

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Source Brabham BT10 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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Motor Racing Developments ran the BT10 in Formula Two

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The Brabham BT11 (also known as Repco Brabham BT11) is a Formula One racing car built in 1964, mainly for use by privateers in grand prix racing, but was also used by the Brabham works team during 1964 and 1965.

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The Brabham BT12 was a mid-engined open-wheel racing car, designed, developed and built by the Brabham team, to compete in the 1964 Indianapolis 500.

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The Brabham BT14 was an open-wheel mid-engined formula racing car, designed, developed and built by British manufacturer and constructor Brabham, in 1965.

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The Brabham BT15 is a mid-engined open-wheel Formula 3 racing car, designed, developed, and built by Brabham between 1965 and 1966.

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Motor Racing Developments, the company behind the Brabham GP team and constructor of many successful production racing cars

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Source Brabham BT17 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT17 was a one-off sports prototype race car, designed by British-Australian engineer Ron Tauranac, and developed and built by British manufacturer, constructor, and Formula One racing team, Brabham.

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The Brabham BT18 was an open-wheel formula racing car, designed, developed, and built by British constructor Brabham, for both Formula 2 and Formula 3 racing categories.

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Source Brabham BT19 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT19 is a Formula One racing car designed by Ron Tauranac for the British Brabham team.

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Source Brabham BT2 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT2 is an open-wheel racing car made by Brabham in 1962.

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The Brabham BT20 is a Formula One car used by the Brabham Formula One team in 1966 and 1967, as well as a number of privateers from 1967 to 1969.

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The Brabham BT21 was an open-wheel formula racing car, designed, developed, and built by Brabham in large numbers in 1966 and delivered to private individuals; 110 vehicles were manufactured.

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The Brabham BT23 was a formula racing car built by Brabham in 1967.

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Source Brabham BT24 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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It was one of three cars used by the Brabham racing team during their championship-winning 1967 Formula One season.

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Source Brabham BT25 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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Two examples of the BT25 were built by Brabham in 1968 to compete in USAC Championship races.

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Source Brabham BT26 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT26 was a Formula One racing car design.

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first Formula One design to be produced by Motor Racing Developments for the Brabham Racing Organisation

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Source Brabham BT30 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT30 was an open-wheel Formula 2 racing car used in the 1969, 1970, and 1971 European Formula Two Championship.

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The Brabham BT32 was an open-wheel racing car, that competed in the USAC Championship Car racing, between 1970 and 1972 USAC Championships.

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The Brabham BT33 was a Formula One racing car built for the 1970 F1 season.

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The Brabham BT34 was a Formula One racing car designed by Ron Tauranac, and used by Brabham during part of the 1971 and 1972 Formula One seasons.

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The Brabham BT36 was an open-wheel Formula 2 race car, designed by Ron Tauranac, and developed and built by British racing team and constructor, Brabham, for the 1971 European Formula Two Championship.

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The Brabham BT37 was a Formula One racing car designed by Ralph Bellamy for the Brabham team to use in the 1972 Formula One season.

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The Brabham BT42 was a Formula One racing car used by Brabham for the 1973 Formula One season.

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Source Brabham BT43 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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it was one of the last cars produced by MRD before MRD was closed by the then new Brabham owner Bernie Ecclestone

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Source Brabham BT44 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT44 was a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray, Brabham's chief designer

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The car was the first Brabham to use Alfa Romeo type 115-12 flat 12-cylinder engine

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Source Brabham BT46 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT46 is a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team, owned by Bernie Ecclestone, for the 1978 Formula One season.

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The Brabham BT48 was a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray and raced by the Brabham team in the 1979 Formula One season.

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The Brabham BT49 is a Formula One racing car designed by South African Gordon Murray for the British Brabham team.

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Source Brabham BT5 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT5, and its evolution, the Brabham BT8, are sports racing cars manufactured and developed by Brabham in 1963 (BT5) and 1964 (BT8), respectively.

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Source Brabham BT50 (Wikipedia)Lead, maker
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The Brabham BT50 was a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray and powered by a turbo BMW engine.

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The Brabham BT52 was a Formula One car designed for the Brabham team by longtime Brabham designer Gordon Murray for the 1983 season.

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The Brabham BT53 was a Formula One car designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team for the 1984 Formula One season

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The Brabham BT54 was a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray for the Brabham team for the 1985 Formula One season.

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The Brabham BT55 was a Formula One racing car designed by Gordon Murray and David North for the Brabham team owned by Bernie Ecclestone.

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The Brabham BT56 was a Formula One car designed by John Baldwin and Sergio Rinland and raced by the Brabham team in the 1987 Formula One World Championship.

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The Brabham BT58 was a Formula One racing car designed by John Baldwin and Sergio Rinland for the Brabham team which raced in the 1989 season.

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The Brabham BT59 was a Formula One racing car designed by Sergio Rinland and Hans Fouche for the Brabham team which raced in the 1990 and 1991 Formula One World Championships.

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The Brabham BT60 was the final series of Formula One racing cars built for the Brabham Formula One motor racing team.

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It was raced by the Brabham Racing Organisation

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Source Brabham (Wikipedia)Lead
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was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team
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1. Brabham (Wikipedia)
  • Lead
    It was founded in 1962 by the Australian driver Jack Brabham and the British-Australian designer Ron Tauranac.
  • Lead, company type
    was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team
  • Lead, team
    British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team
  • Lead, status
    Midway through the 1992 season, the team collapsed financially
  • Operates In: Automotive Industry, Lead, industry
    was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team
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2. Just Cars: FEATURE - 1965 Brabham BT16
Just Cars
  • Introduction
    Established in 1961 by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac
  • Founded By: Ron Tauranac, Introduction, founders
    Established in 1961 by Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac
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Ron Tauranac (Wikipedia)
Led By: Ron Tauranac, Lead, ownership
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Tauranac owned and managed the Brabham team until 1972
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