Jack Brabham met Ron Tauranac when Ron showed up as a customer for Jack’s machine shop in Australia in 1950. Within a year they had more or less joined forces to tackle the local Hawkesbury Hillclimb with a midget track racer. They won, but their victory was disallowed by officials who ruled it wasn’t a “proper” car, forging the first link in their long-running bond.
Eventually Jack went to England, drove for Cooper and won two World Championships. Then he and Ron reunited and formed Motor Racing Developments to build Brabham-badged racecars. That turned out well, and in 1966 Jack became the first and only man to win the F1 World Championship in a car with his name on the nose. The next year they won again with Denny Hulme driving.
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