It’s an interesting car badge, don’t you reckon? One of our friends in Belgium, Stef Van den Bergh, bought it recently and wants to know more about it. ” I am curious who made it. I suppose it was Honda since Brabham isn’t even mentioned on the badge. How many were made and were they […]
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Brabham Honda…
Posted: December 17, 2021 in Who,What,Where & When...?Tags: Australian Motor Racing History, Brabham Honda, Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham
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King of The Castle…
Posted: July 8, 2022 in F1, ObscuritiesTags: Brabham BT11 Climax, Brabham BT16 Honda, Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham
Jack Brabham with his F1 Brabham BT11 Climax, F2 BT16 Honda and one of Ron Tauranac’s bare spaceframes Jack has borrowed from Ron’s production line. The photo isn’t dated but it’s between mid-June and mid-September 1965 – works Brabhams used number 14 at the Belgian, French, British, Dutch, and Italian Grands Prix. In some ways […]
Werrangourt Archive 4: Dodgy Cameras, Reims and Oulton Park by Bob King…
Posted: December 28, 2018 in F1, FeaturesTags: 1929 GP de la Marne Reims, 1966 French Grand Prix, 1967 Oulton Park Spring Cup, Brabham BT19 Repco, Brabham BT20 Repco, BRM P83 'H16', Denny Hulme, Ferrari 312, Honda RA273, Jack Brabham, Jackie Stewart, John Surtees, Lorenzo Bandini
‘What you can do with a dodgy camera… The story really begins in May 1965 in Aden in the Federation of South Arabia (now Yemen) where the ship on which I was travelling as the ships doctor made its first landfall after leaving Australian several weeks earlier. Aden, then as now, was a hell-hole, but […]
Evocative 1…
Posted: March 13, 2023 in F1, FotosTags: 1965 Belgian Grand Prix, Graham Hill, Jim Clark, Richie Ginther
I just love pit or startline just-before-the-off shots. You can feel the tension, excitement and driver’s surge of adrenalin just before they pop their butts into the cockpits of their chariots. Here it’s the Belgian Grand Prix, Spa 1965. Our black-snapper in some ways ruins the shot but he gives it intimacy and immediacy as […]
Cooper T39 Climax, Le Mans 1957, Brabham, Raby…
Posted: January 28, 2020 in Obscurities, Sports RacersTags: 1957 Le Mans 24 Hours, 1958, Aston Martin DBR1 300, Brabham BT14 Ford-Lotus, Brabham BT3 BRM, Cooper Mk 8 Norton, Cooper T39 Climax, Ian Raby, Jack Brabham
Jack Brabham’s first Le Mans 24 Hours was the 1957 running of the endurance classic during which he shared a Cooper T39 Climax with Englishman Ian Raby… Whilst the Coventry Climax 1097cc FPF engined car was quick the duo finished fifteenth outright and third in their 1100cc class behind the similarly engined works Lotus 11 […]
Surtees, Matra 1966 and thereabouts…
Posted: May 24, 2019 in FeaturesTags: Cosworth SCA Engine, Formula 2, Jackie Stewart, Jacky Ickx, Jean-Pierre Beltoise, John Surtees, Matra Djet, Matra MS5 Cosworth SCA, Matra MS7 Ford, Reims, Rouen
Lordy knows how many different bikes and cars the great John Surtees drove in his lengthy career at elite level, on two and four wheels?!… His brief Matra F2 phase was a new one on me until tripping over some of these photographs whilst researching an article on Matras. ‘Big John’ did two races for […]
The Relentless Pace of Change- Long May it Continue…
Posted: November 11, 2018 in F1Tags: Brabham BT24 Repco, Dan Gurney, Eagle Mk1 Weslake, Eagle T1G Weslake, Jack Brabham, Jon Surtees, McLaren MPL32 Honda, Sutees TS8 Chev
‘There is no point rueing the good ole days!, you just sound like a silly old tugger!’ my youngest son observed of his father with all the respect typical of the ‘friggin millennials… He is right of course. Every era of motor racing is interesting, the challenge is to keep up. But I must say, […]
Brabham BT24 Streamliner…
Posted: January 22, 2022 in F1Tags: 1967 Italian Grand Prix, Brabham BT24 Repco, Denny Hulme, Jack Brabham, Repco Brabham 740 V8, Ron Tauranac
Jack Brabham aboard his Brabham BT24/1 Repco ‘Streamliner’ in the Monza pitlane during the September 10, 1967 weekend. Lanky Dan Gurney is at right keeping an eye on his old-boss, while Jo Ramirez, in the white pants/dark top, and the All American Racers crew, tend to Dan’s erotic Eagle Mk1 Weslake #103. Brabham, Ron Tauranac […]
Australian Racing Random 11…
Posted: October 2, 2022 in FeaturesTags: AC Ace Bristol, Australian Motor Racing History, Mary Seed, Milthorpe Special
This Dr Who-esque shot was taken by Peter Houston at Hume Weir on the 1971 Boxing Day weekend. It’s later F2 front runner Enno Buesselmann in his Formula Ford days, an Elfin 600. Click here for more on Australian FF formative days. These couple of pages from a mid-1950s brochure about the Phillip Island circuit […]
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