WEBVTT FILE 1 00:00:02.000 --> 00:00:07.000 Downloaded from YTS.MX 2 00:00:08.000 --> 00:00:13.000 Official YIFY movies site: YTS.MX 3 00:00:34.294 --> 00:00:37.942 DAVID: You kind of get into this mindset, 4 00:00:38.710 --> 00:00:40.914 when you’re in competition for so long 5 00:00:41.014 --> 00:00:42.934 and you’re doing well... 6 00:00:43.855 --> 00:00:46.466 There were times I’d catch myself and go, 7 00:00:46.965 --> 00:00:48.885 “That’s not who I am. 8 00:00:49.845 --> 00:00:51.765 You’re so like your father.” 9 00:00:53.493 --> 00:00:55.313 There’d be something in the back saying, 10 00:00:55.413 --> 00:00:57.333 “Is this really who you are?” 11 00:01:01.288 --> 00:01:07.316 ["BLACK EYED BRUISER" PLAYING] 12 00:01:14.190 --> 00:01:17.338 ♪ If you see me Walking down the street ♪ 13 00:01:18.337 --> 00:01:20.717 ♪ Better get out my way ♪ 14 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:25.071 ♪ I'm a real king hitter ♪ 15 00:01:25.171 --> 00:01:27.030 ♪ Always have my say ♪ 16 00:01:27.130 --> 00:01:30.624 ♪ If you're looking For a heavy time ♪ 17 00:01:31.584 --> 00:01:34.825 ♪ Best you don't come around ♪ 18 00:01:34.925 --> 00:01:37.459 ♪ Or else you'll get Your heavy ♪ 19 00:01:38.150 --> 00:01:40.531 ♪ Six feet of solid ground ♪ 20 00:01:41.375 --> 00:01:43.119 ♪ I don't like trouble ♪ 21 00:01:43.219 --> 00:01:46.482 ♪ But if trouble Is the name of your game ♪ 22 00:01:48.018 --> 00:01:50.299 ♪ You know where You can find me, boy ♪ 23 00:01:50.399 --> 00:01:52.895 ♪ Everybody knows my name ♪ 24 00:01:53.471 --> 00:01:56.389 ♪ I'm the black eyed ♪ 25 00:01:56.888 --> 00:01:58.962 ♪ The black eyed ♪ 26 00:01:59.346 --> 00:02:04.337 ♪ The black eyed bruiser ♪ 27 00:02:07.525 --> 00:02:11.917 -[MEN CHANTING] -[VOICE ECHOING] 28 00:02:12.017 --> 00:02:15.104 MIKE: I’m standing now in the showroom of a car dealer, 29 00:02:15.204 --> 00:02:16.294 at Greenacre in Sydney. 30 00:02:16.394 --> 00:02:19.136 And I suppose it’s very much like any car dealer showroom. 31 00:02:19.236 --> 00:02:21.156 Except for all these trophies behind me. 32 00:02:24.573 --> 00:02:27.583 He is a man who, in his time, created history. 33 00:02:27.683 --> 00:02:29.273 Now, he thinks he’s coming here tonight 34 00:02:29.373 --> 00:02:31.347 for a sporting interview with his son. 35 00:02:31.447 --> 00:02:33.482 And it’s right here that I’m going to surprise them. 36 00:02:38.742 --> 00:02:42.275 [MACHINE BEEPING] 37 00:02:42.620 --> 00:02:45.823 CHAPLAIN: We are here to honor, celebrate and give thanks 38 00:02:45.923 --> 00:02:48.702 for the life of Sir John Arthur Brabham, 39 00:02:48.802 --> 00:02:50.722 known as Jack. 40 00:02:56.828 --> 00:02:58.609 In one way or another, Sir Jack’s life 41 00:02:58.709 --> 00:03:00.606 has affected us all. 42 00:03:00.706 --> 00:03:02.795 From those here who knew him personally 43 00:03:02.895 --> 00:03:06.427 and called him Grandpa, or Dad, or husband... 44 00:03:07.541 --> 00:03:10.766 to those here who shared a lifelong friendship with Jack, 45 00:03:11.457 --> 00:03:13.992 to those of us here who knew him from a distance 46 00:03:14.491 --> 00:03:17.025 and marveled at his many achievements. 47 00:03:25.780 --> 00:03:29.159 CHAPLAIN: But we’ll also hear about Sir Jack the man, 48 00:03:29.696 --> 00:03:32.937 the husband, father and grandfather. 49 00:03:33.037 --> 00:03:34.683 What made him tick. What was really important 50 00:03:34.693 --> 00:03:36.339 to him. 51 00:03:36.800 --> 00:03:41.039 [RAIN PATTERING] 52 00:03:41.139 --> 00:03:43.059 [PHONE DINGS] 53 00:03:51.238 --> 00:03:56.076 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 54 00:03:57.189 --> 00:03:59.470 Any of you boys been in a billy-cart derby before? 55 00:03:59.570 --> 00:04:01.083 ALL: Yes! 56 00:04:01.183 --> 00:04:03.103 NARRATOR: Jack was like any boy of his age, 57 00:04:03.448 --> 00:04:04.884 obsessed with billy-carts. 58 00:04:04.984 --> 00:04:06.189 TONY: You could either have a steering wheel 59 00:04:06.198 --> 00:04:07.342 or you could have a rope. 60 00:04:07.442 --> 00:04:09.592 And what wheels you got, well, that was up to the gods. 61 00:04:09.899 --> 00:04:10.989 PRESENTER: What do you say, Noah? 62 00:04:11.089 --> 00:04:14.177 It was a great race and the best man did win. 63 00:04:14.277 --> 00:04:15.904 NARRATOR: He left school at fifteen 64 00:04:16.004 --> 00:04:18.439 to work as an apprentice in an engineer shop. 65 00:04:18.539 --> 00:04:20.743 MAN: We happened to get bits and pieces 66 00:04:20.843 --> 00:04:22.048 and improvised with them. 67 00:04:22.148 --> 00:04:24.375 Cut and shuck and weld, and do all sorts of things. 68 00:04:24.798 --> 00:04:25.888 Yeah, he was from an age 69 00:04:25.988 --> 00:04:28.906 when you had a wide variety of skills. 70 00:04:29.751 --> 00:04:31.302 The kind of industrial equivalent 71 00:04:31.402 --> 00:04:33.030 of the hunter-gatherer. 72 00:04:33.130 --> 00:04:34.181 MAN: You could see there was no doubt, 73 00:04:34.191 --> 00:04:35.257 he was very earnest 74 00:04:35.357 --> 00:04:37.968 and he was going to be a good engineer, good boy. 75 00:04:39.235 --> 00:04:41.247 TV NARRATOR: Even away in the little-known interior, 76 00:04:41.347 --> 00:04:42.630 amongst the primitive natives, 77 00:04:42.730 --> 00:04:44.626 there are townships where agents of Hitler 78 00:04:44.726 --> 00:04:47.429 wait and plan for the downfall of a country 79 00:04:47.529 --> 00:04:49.656 that has sheltered them and given them security. 80 00:04:49.756 --> 00:04:53.673 ALL: ♪ Waltzing Matilda Waltzing Matilda ♪ 81 00:04:55.823 --> 00:04:58.872 NARRATOR: The war interrupted Jack’s sleepy existence, 82 00:04:58.972 --> 00:05:01.161 tinkering with bikes and cars. 83 00:05:02.620 --> 00:05:04.324 Every young man of fighting age 84 00:05:04.424 --> 00:05:06.513 finally had a reason for adventure. 85 00:05:06.613 --> 00:05:08.840 MAN: ...the cause of liberty and freedom. 86 00:05:09.147 --> 00:05:10.660 TONY: War had started, of course, 87 00:05:10.760 --> 00:05:12.465 when he was a teenager. 88 00:05:12.565 --> 00:05:15.445 NARRATOR: Jack entered the RAAF midway through the war. 89 00:05:15.982 --> 00:05:18.609 He was a mechanic on RAAF Bowfighters, 90 00:05:18.709 --> 00:05:20.221 called the "Whispering Death," 91 00:05:20.321 --> 00:05:22.794 because twin radial engines were so quiet 92 00:05:22.894 --> 00:05:25.213 that they would come in low and then strafe the Japanese 93 00:05:25.313 --> 00:05:26.979 before they even knew what was hitting them. 94 00:05:27.079 --> 00:05:29.898 [EXPLOSION] 95 00:05:29.998 --> 00:05:31.779 NARRATOR: But Jack had missed out on becoming 96 00:05:31.879 --> 00:05:33.545 a hero on the front line. 97 00:05:33.645 --> 00:05:35.158 MAN: ...the victim, Australia’s manhood. 98 00:05:35.258 --> 00:05:37.424 NARRATOR: He was part of a generation of young men 99 00:05:37.524 --> 00:05:40.711 who needed some kind of arena to prove themselves 100 00:05:41.018 --> 00:05:43.836 as worthy as the heroes who had returned home, 101 00:05:43.936 --> 00:05:45.856 victorious in combat. 102 00:05:51.347 --> 00:05:52.706 Eerie, isn’t it? 103 00:05:52.806 --> 00:05:54.626 You know what this reminds me of? A theater. 104 00:05:54.726 --> 00:05:56.684 An empty theater right now. 105 00:05:57.030 --> 00:06:00.040 But it has its audience, its cast, its drama, 106 00:06:00.140 --> 00:06:03.557 its comedy, and sometimes its tragedy too. 107 00:06:04.210 --> 00:06:05.877 The spectacle here is a moving play 108 00:06:05.977 --> 00:06:08.065 on an asphalt stage with all the props. 109 00:06:08.165 --> 00:06:09.870 Producers and directors in the wings, 110 00:06:09.970 --> 00:06:13.656 the music, extras, comedians, good guys and bad guys, 111 00:06:13.963 --> 00:06:15.883 and the stars... 112 00:06:16.690 --> 00:06:18.433 NARRATOR: And it was on a road trip up north 113 00:06:18.533 --> 00:06:21.336 that a friend took Jack to his first-ever Speedway. 114 00:06:21.989 --> 00:06:24.523 What he would have seen was motorized chaos. 115 00:06:25.137 --> 00:06:27.456 There were no roll-cages, seat belts. 116 00:06:27.556 --> 00:06:29.491 The helmets were made of cork. 117 00:06:29.591 --> 00:06:31.987 A lot of blokes didn’t even bother using goggles. 118 00:06:32.087 --> 00:06:34.429 MAN: The driver died of severe head injuries. 119 00:06:35.236 --> 00:06:38.054 MAN: Oh, Jack? Yes, the first time I met him 120 00:06:38.154 --> 00:06:40.074 was, uh, in '48. 121 00:06:40.842 --> 00:06:43.468 He, uh... was only a kid then 122 00:06:43.568 --> 00:06:45.503 and he came up with the Speedway car. 123 00:06:45.603 --> 00:06:48.537 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 124 00:06:48.637 --> 00:06:50.787 TONY: Can you imagine driving down a dirt road 125 00:06:51.094 --> 00:06:53.283 and then having to turn left into the corner 126 00:06:53.590 --> 00:06:56.063 without hitting the brakes, but with your foot flat 127 00:06:56.163 --> 00:06:57.560 to the floor at the same time? 128 00:06:57.660 --> 00:06:59.580 Well, this is what Speedway drivers did. 129 00:07:00.886 --> 00:07:02.974 I mean, all you can see now of a racing driver 130 00:07:03.074 --> 00:07:04.741 is a little bit of the top of their head, 131 00:07:04.841 --> 00:07:06.929 sort of slightly bobbing around. 132 00:07:07.029 --> 00:07:09.425 In Speedway, it’s mechanicalized warfare 133 00:07:09.525 --> 00:07:11.307 of the most purest kind. 134 00:07:11.407 --> 00:07:13.442 It’s wild, it’s big. 135 00:07:13.826 --> 00:07:16.030 JACK: And that was my biggest surprise on the first night, 136 00:07:16.130 --> 00:07:18.526 was every other motor car was throwing dirt in my face. 137 00:07:18.626 --> 00:07:20.546 [LAUGHTER] 138 00:07:20.968 --> 00:07:24.232 DAVID: My mum came from a very, sort of, basic background. 139 00:07:24.577 --> 00:07:26.804 They met and Jack was racing in midgets. 140 00:07:27.342 --> 00:07:30.199 MIKE: The lady who watched, waited and worried, 141 00:07:30.299 --> 00:07:32.080 your wife, Betty. 142 00:07:32.180 --> 00:07:35.290 [TV STATIC] 143 00:07:38.593 --> 00:07:40.105 What was this bloke's name again? 144 00:07:40.205 --> 00:07:42.140 [INDISTINCT CHATTER] 145 00:07:42.240 --> 00:07:44.368 Sorry, Jack, mate, I won’t let you down. 146 00:07:44.468 --> 00:07:47.578 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 147 00:07:48.077 --> 00:07:50.550 In the very early 1950s, 148 00:07:50.650 --> 00:07:53.568 Jack took his Speedway racing car 149 00:07:54.144 --> 00:07:56.194 to a local hill-climb. 150 00:07:56.294 --> 00:08:00.633 In his little, titchy self-built Speedway car, 151 00:08:01.017 --> 00:08:03.605 he blew them all into the weeds. 152 00:08:03.705 --> 00:08:05.410 PRESENTER: Hairpin bends at high speeds 153 00:08:05.510 --> 00:08:07.637 call for steel wrists and iron nerves. 154 00:08:07.737 --> 00:08:11.784 Sport is somewhere where drive, dedication, 155 00:08:11.884 --> 00:08:15.071 bravery... that’s what we celebrate. 156 00:08:15.647 --> 00:08:17.912 PRESENTER: It’s a great course for the spectators too. 157 00:08:18.219 --> 00:08:21.138 You know, someone who’s fucking brilliant at what they do 158 00:08:21.483 --> 00:08:23.150 and we can cheer them on. 159 00:08:23.250 --> 00:08:26.951 The organizers actually disqualified his car 160 00:08:27.051 --> 00:08:29.984 because it wasn’t fitted with front wheel brakes... 161 00:08:30.084 --> 00:08:31.866 PRESENTER: Hold everything, he’s going over! 162 00:08:31.966 --> 00:08:36.574 [LAUGHS] ...and therefore didn’t qualify for their purposes. 163 00:08:36.958 --> 00:08:38.278 PRESENTER: Not this time. 164 00:08:38.378 --> 00:08:40.698 So, Jack responded typically 165 00:08:40.798 --> 00:08:43.347 by fitting front wheel brakes, taking it back there 166 00:08:43.447 --> 00:08:45.367 and doing it again. 167 00:08:51.395 --> 00:08:53.714 RON: Oh, it’s a Brabham '67. 168 00:08:53.814 --> 00:08:55.788 It’s a long while since I’ve seen one of these. 169 00:08:55.888 --> 00:08:58.207 [RAIN PATTERING] 170 00:08:58.307 --> 00:08:59.627 NARRATOR: Ron Tauranac was racing 171 00:08:59.637 --> 00:09:00.895 RALT open wheelers, 172 00:09:00.995 --> 00:09:02.200 which he’d built with his brother 173 00:09:02.300 --> 00:09:04.220 in their parent’s garage. 174 00:09:04.681 --> 00:09:06.908 It was clear they saw something in each other. 175 00:09:07.446 --> 00:09:09.366 Kindred spirits. 176 00:09:09.980 --> 00:09:14.396 Well, he was a very good friend of mine and we got on very well. 177 00:09:16.009 --> 00:09:18.428 I’ve never been a very social person either. 178 00:09:19.004 --> 00:09:22.359 I realize it was a mistake now. 179 00:09:22.459 --> 00:09:24.279 But I needed someone to train me. 180 00:09:24.379 --> 00:09:25.891 TONY: Ron and Jack were, in some ways, 181 00:09:25.901 --> 00:09:27.390 two peas in a pod. 182 00:09:27.490 --> 00:09:28.887 Neither of them talked much 183 00:09:28.987 --> 00:09:30.999 but they could just look at what each other were doing 184 00:09:31.099 --> 00:09:33.188 -and say, “Wow.” -Ron designed the cars 185 00:09:33.288 --> 00:09:34.608 and Dad tested them. 186 00:09:34.708 --> 00:09:36.628 It was an incredible partnership. 187 00:09:36.974 --> 00:09:39.278 Jack had his two-liter Cooper Bristol. 188 00:09:39.700 --> 00:09:41.175 DOUG: And he fitted a bigger engine 189 00:09:41.275 --> 00:09:42.902 to give it more "oomph" 190 00:09:43.002 --> 00:09:47.625 and he ended up corresponding with John and Charles Cooper 191 00:09:47.725 --> 00:09:49.699 of the Cooper Car Company. 192 00:09:49.799 --> 00:09:51.657 NARRATOR: By the end of 1954, 193 00:09:51.757 --> 00:09:53.711 Jack had experienced everything that Speedway 194 00:09:53.720 --> 00:09:55.674 and Hill-Climb had to offer. 195 00:09:55.981 --> 00:09:58.607 And while he may not have yet had his sights set 196 00:09:58.707 --> 00:10:00.065 on challenging the European legends 197 00:10:00.075 --> 00:10:01.433 of motorsport, 198 00:10:01.779 --> 00:10:04.405 the hobbyist from Hurstville knew he’d be foolish 199 00:10:04.505 --> 00:10:05.921 if he didn’t pursue his clear talent 200 00:10:05.931 --> 00:10:07.324 behind the wheel. 201 00:10:07.424 --> 00:10:10.703 DOUG: And Jack realized that to progress 202 00:10:10.803 --> 00:10:12.623 in the motor-racing world, 203 00:10:12.723 --> 00:10:15.679 he really needed to be in Britain. 204 00:10:16.985 --> 00:10:19.765 PRESENTER: When he hears the booming tones of Big Ben, 205 00:10:19.865 --> 00:10:23.666 no English-speaking visitor feels a real stranger in London. 206 00:10:24.088 --> 00:10:26.907 The chimes from Westminster penetrate to the four corners 207 00:10:27.007 --> 00:10:27.982 of the globe. 208 00:10:28.082 --> 00:10:30.962 And Big Ben has become everyone's town clock. 209 00:10:32.958 --> 00:10:36.698 DOUG: When Jack first came to the UK in 1955, 210 00:10:36.798 --> 00:10:38.848 he kissed his wife goodbye 211 00:10:38.948 --> 00:10:41.037 and his child goodbye, 212 00:10:41.137 --> 00:10:47.795 and found himself surrounded by, really, a fast-developing hotbed 213 00:10:47.895 --> 00:10:49.907 of motor-racing development. 214 00:10:50.007 --> 00:10:52.772 MAN: We, as loyal citizens, must also do our part. 215 00:10:53.156 --> 00:10:56.934 DOUG: British motor racing had been nowhere before the war. 216 00:10:57.034 --> 00:10:58.201 TV NARRATOR: Silence... 217 00:10:58.301 --> 00:11:01.603 DOUG: Conditions were so bad 218 00:11:02.102 --> 00:11:04.445 that there were worse shortages here 219 00:11:04.867 --> 00:11:07.248 than there had ever been at any time. 220 00:11:09.129 --> 00:11:13.368 And a number of people just got so fed up 221 00:11:13.468 --> 00:11:15.711 with this turgid, gray, post-war Britain... 222 00:11:15.811 --> 00:11:17.362 [CROWD CHANTING] 223 00:11:17.462 --> 00:11:19.397 ...that effectively they said, “Oh, to hell with it. 224 00:11:19.497 --> 00:11:21.609 Let’s go motor racing and have some fun.” 225 00:11:23.068 --> 00:11:25.909 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 226 00:11:26.370 --> 00:11:28.881 DOUG: The British manner of going motor racing, 227 00:11:28.981 --> 00:11:31.170 was to start building racing cars, 228 00:11:31.515 --> 00:11:34.833 striving to surpass the dominant Ferrari 229 00:11:34.933 --> 00:11:36.853 and Maserati. 230 00:11:37.928 --> 00:11:40.401 NARRATOR: En route to England, Jack made the pilgrimage 231 00:11:40.501 --> 00:11:42.420 to Ferrari. 232 00:11:43.534 --> 00:11:45.569 And they closed the door in his face. 233 00:11:46.721 --> 00:11:49.232 He knew he probably appeared to them like a chancer 234 00:11:49.332 --> 00:11:50.576 from Down Under, 235 00:11:50.676 --> 00:11:52.841 but the experience stung him deeply 236 00:11:52.941 --> 00:11:56.205 and he loved overtaking Ferrari for the rest of his career. 237 00:11:57.012 --> 00:11:58.217 Have you heard from Jack lately? 238 00:11:58.317 --> 00:11:59.715 Yes, we’ve heard a couple of times. 239 00:11:59.815 --> 00:12:01.174 I rang him up after Silverstone 240 00:12:01.274 --> 00:12:03.017 and we get a letter occasionally. 241 00:12:03.117 --> 00:12:05.267 MIKE: Then comes your first race at Goodwood. 242 00:12:06.458 --> 00:12:07.663 But you come to an embarrassing halt 243 00:12:07.672 --> 00:12:08.853 three laps from the finish. 244 00:12:08.953 --> 00:12:10.005 What happened? 245 00:12:10.105 --> 00:12:11.503 I’m afraid I ran out of petrol. 246 00:12:11.603 --> 00:12:12.847 [LAUGHTER] 247 00:12:12.947 --> 00:12:14.997 NARRATOR: But Jack was quickly progressing. 248 00:12:15.097 --> 00:12:17.570 In his first year in England, he secured a seat 249 00:12:17.670 --> 00:12:18.991 in the Bristol Team at Le Mans, 250 00:12:19.091 --> 00:12:21.563 where 83 spectators were killed. 251 00:12:21.663 --> 00:12:23.637 GRAYSON: I mean, when we look at sport, 252 00:12:23.737 --> 00:12:26.209 we’re living vicariously through the sports stars 253 00:12:26.309 --> 00:12:27.822 we’re following. 254 00:12:27.922 --> 00:12:29.012 We want to see a crash 255 00:12:29.112 --> 00:12:31.839 because we can go through the whole drama of the crash, 256 00:12:32.530 --> 00:12:34.311 but we’re not going to die. 257 00:12:34.411 --> 00:12:36.538 We can enjoy it, you know, we want to rubberneck it 258 00:12:36.638 --> 00:12:39.150 and we want to see that the ragged edge is there. 259 00:12:39.250 --> 00:12:40.455 ANNOUNCER: Drivers sprint for their cars 260 00:12:40.464 --> 00:12:41.645 at the start of the Ireland... 261 00:12:41.745 --> 00:12:43.084 NARRATOR: Jack then took Betty to 262 00:12:43.094 --> 00:12:44.448 the follow-up Sports Car Enduro 263 00:12:44.548 --> 00:12:45.716 in Northern Ireland. 264 00:12:45.816 --> 00:12:46.963 ANNOUNCER: Stirling Moss, in a Mercedes, 265 00:12:46.973 --> 00:12:48.096 is one of the first away 266 00:12:48.196 --> 00:12:50.323 on the seven-and-a-half-mile Dunlop Circuit. 267 00:12:50.423 --> 00:12:52.589 NARRATOR: He’d only been in the UK for six months 268 00:12:52.689 --> 00:12:54.624 and he was already wheel to wheel 269 00:12:54.724 --> 00:12:56.198 with the immortals of racing. 270 00:12:56.298 --> 00:12:57.350 ANNOUNCER: Caught in a trial, 271 00:12:57.450 --> 00:12:59.001 Fangio Mercedes, Hawthorn Jaguar. 272 00:12:59.101 --> 00:13:00.998 NARRATOR: But it had been a tough race for Jack. 273 00:13:01.098 --> 00:13:02.552 ANNOUNCER: At this spot, in a few ghastly seconds, 274 00:13:02.562 --> 00:13:04.032 two drivers lost their lives. 275 00:13:04.132 --> 00:13:05.087 NARRATOR: He and his co-driver, 276 00:13:05.096 --> 00:13:05.990 Jim Meyers, 277 00:13:06.090 --> 00:13:08.524 had tossed a coin to see who would start. 278 00:13:08.624 --> 00:13:11.634 His co-driver won the toss and was incinerated 279 00:13:11.734 --> 00:13:13.401 within the first few laps. 280 00:13:13.501 --> 00:13:16.073 ANDREW: I have seen death too often to believe in death. 281 00:13:16.457 --> 00:13:18.700 It is not an ending, but a withdrawal. 282 00:13:18.800 --> 00:13:22.294 As one who is finishing a long journey stills the motor, 283 00:13:22.601 --> 00:13:24.690 turns off the lights, 284 00:13:24.790 --> 00:13:27.977 steps from the car and walks up the path 285 00:13:28.361 --> 00:13:30.281 to the home that awaits him. 286 00:13:33.122 --> 00:13:34.827 JOHN: He was fantastic from the start. 287 00:13:34.927 --> 00:13:36.420 A little wild, but everyone could see 288 00:13:36.429 --> 00:13:37.899 that he had it. 289 00:13:37.999 --> 00:13:40.241 MIKE: One of the greatest names in motor racing, from England. 290 00:13:40.341 --> 00:13:42.046 This Is Your Life has flown in John Cooper 291 00:13:42.146 --> 00:13:43.543 of the famous Cooper Cars. 292 00:13:43.643 --> 00:13:45.194 [APPLAUSE] 293 00:13:45.294 --> 00:13:47.406 DOUG: As John Cooper said to me, 294 00:13:47.752 --> 00:13:51.261 “We didn't really employ Jack Brabham. 295 00:13:51.361 --> 00:13:55.101 He just appeared in the factory one day and became a fixture." 296 00:13:55.201 --> 00:13:58.749 He’s a brilliant engineer and he could set a car up 297 00:13:58.849 --> 00:13:59.862 for a race. 298 00:13:59.962 --> 00:14:02.281 He’d just pitch in and get on with something. 299 00:14:02.381 --> 00:14:05.084 MIKE: Is it true that Jack was also a practical joker? 300 00:14:05.184 --> 00:14:06.812 JOHN: Oh, yeah. 301 00:14:06.912 --> 00:14:09.846 He could make you anything from a pair of pliers 302 00:14:09.946 --> 00:14:11.866 to a guided missile. 303 00:14:13.440 --> 00:14:15.298 TOM: He’s just such a natural engineer. 304 00:14:15.398 --> 00:14:18.217 He looks at things and understands so quickly 305 00:14:18.317 --> 00:14:20.620 what’s wrong with them or what’s right with them. 306 00:14:21.196 --> 00:14:24.667 HUGHIE: He was one of the only F1 drivers that probably knew 307 00:14:24.767 --> 00:14:26.050 everything about the race car, 308 00:14:26.150 --> 00:14:30.066 from the chassis to the engine to the setting up. 309 00:14:30.374 --> 00:14:32.293 He knew all the parts. 310 00:14:33.023 --> 00:14:35.365 Well, Jack Brabham was a remarkable man. 311 00:14:35.826 --> 00:14:37.741 In a funny sort of way, Jack never looked like 312 00:14:37.751 --> 00:14:39.643 a racing driver. 313 00:14:39.743 --> 00:14:42.100 I mean, Stirling Moss looked like a racing driver, 314 00:14:42.200 --> 00:14:44.619 Jim Clark looked like a racing driver. 315 00:14:45.118 --> 00:14:47.783 But it was fairly obvious, fairly early on, 316 00:14:47.883 --> 00:14:49.803 that he was a goer. 317 00:14:50.149 --> 00:14:53.543 And it wasn’t really until the Cooper Car Company 318 00:14:53.643 --> 00:14:54.695 picked him up 319 00:14:54.795 --> 00:14:57.751 that Jack’s feet really hit the ground. 320 00:14:58.059 --> 00:15:00.785 [ENGINES REVVING] 321 00:15:03.857 --> 00:15:05.638 PAUL: This is a "start/finish" line, 322 00:15:05.738 --> 00:15:07.658 the beginning and the end. 323 00:15:07.965 --> 00:15:10.284 Doesn’t make any difference whether it’s painted on asphalt 324 00:15:10.384 --> 00:15:12.511 or drawn in dirt with a stick, 325 00:15:12.611 --> 00:15:14.570 it's become a symbol of our civilization. 326 00:15:15.530 --> 00:15:18.425 Sometimes I think that a line is drawn 327 00:15:18.525 --> 00:15:20.268 and then some people get off on a corner 328 00:15:20.368 --> 00:15:22.764 and figure out what the hell they’re going to do with it. 329 00:15:22.864 --> 00:15:25.375 [SERENE MUSIC PLAYING] 330 00:15:25.475 --> 00:15:27.141 PAUL: The place is Europe. 331 00:15:27.241 --> 00:15:29.967 Or it can be Canada, South Africa, the United States. 332 00:15:30.428 --> 00:15:32.540 But more than glamorous names and places, 333 00:15:33.001 --> 00:15:34.514 it is a state of mind, 334 00:15:34.614 --> 00:15:36.664 an expression of the ultimate in racing, 335 00:15:36.764 --> 00:15:39.544 the Formula One World Driving Championships. 336 00:15:39.644 --> 00:15:40.696 The Grand Prix. 337 00:15:40.796 --> 00:15:42.308 This is the top. 338 00:15:42.408 --> 00:15:44.075 ANNOUNCER: There’s a strong British contingent 339 00:15:44.175 --> 00:15:46.148 at the start of the Monaco Grand Prix. 340 00:15:46.248 --> 00:15:47.799 Monaco... very small circuit 341 00:15:47.899 --> 00:15:50.142 and, in the fifties, very big cars. 342 00:15:50.242 --> 00:15:51.639 ANNOUNCER: Moss and Brooks in Van Walls, 343 00:15:51.739 --> 00:15:53.367 and Collins and Hawthorn in Ferrari. 344 00:15:53.467 --> 00:15:55.556 TONY: Jack turns up in this tiny, tiny Cooper... 345 00:15:55.656 --> 00:15:57.053 MAN: Here’s Mike Hawthorn’s Ferrari. 346 00:15:57.153 --> 00:15:58.781 TONY: They’d never heard of this guy Jack Brabham, 347 00:15:58.881 --> 00:16:01.008 running third in the Monaco Grand Prix. 348 00:16:01.108 --> 00:16:03.542 ANNOUNCER: Everyone expects a rip-roaring finish. 349 00:16:03.642 --> 00:16:05.539 MIKE: The Australian’s spectacular cornering 350 00:16:05.639 --> 00:16:07.559 gave the crowds a thrill. 351 00:16:07.981 --> 00:16:09.571 TONY: And he runs out of petrol. 352 00:16:09.671 --> 00:16:11.299 He pushes it all the way to the end 353 00:16:11.399 --> 00:16:12.565 and made a star out of the driver, 354 00:16:12.575 --> 00:16:13.833 Jack Brabham. 355 00:16:13.933 --> 00:16:16.751 He was so lethargic in so many different ways. 356 00:16:16.851 --> 00:16:18.595 And then he got into a racing car. 357 00:16:18.695 --> 00:16:19.938 ANNOUNCER: Brabham in complete command. 358 00:16:20.038 --> 00:16:22.342 Everybody was astounded at his Speedway style. 359 00:16:22.880 --> 00:16:25.314 MICHAEL: Coopers in those days were world champions 360 00:16:25.414 --> 00:16:28.002 that took on the might of these big teams, 361 00:16:28.102 --> 00:16:30.598 and my father and him just got on so well. 362 00:16:30.905 --> 00:16:36.703 Jack became a huge friend of John Cooper's and vice versa. 363 00:16:37.126 --> 00:16:40.927 One of his biggest assets, however, um... 364 00:16:42.770 --> 00:16:45.880 Oh, I’ve forgotten his name. Uh, his engineer... 365 00:16:54.405 --> 00:16:56.325 Ron Tauranac. 366 00:16:58.245 --> 00:17:00.203 Lovely, lovely, lovely, lovely guy. 367 00:17:05.387 --> 00:17:08.804 RON: When I was building racing cars, in England... 368 00:17:09.111 --> 00:17:12.759 I would design the ultimate racing car 369 00:17:13.565 --> 00:17:14.924 and then backtrack it 370 00:17:15.024 --> 00:17:17.305 so I could build something that was just good enough 371 00:17:17.405 --> 00:17:19.325 to beat the opposition. 372 00:17:21.821 --> 00:17:23.971 GREG: So, what was the best car that you ever made... 373 00:17:24.624 --> 00:17:27.005 -in your mind? -The one I’m going to do next. 374 00:17:29.539 --> 00:17:32.703 DOUG: A lot of the modifications that Jack wanted made 375 00:17:32.803 --> 00:17:35.429 had been communicated to him 376 00:17:35.529 --> 00:17:39.269 by his pen pal back in Australia, 377 00:17:39.369 --> 00:17:41.534 the engineer Ron Tauranac. 378 00:17:41.634 --> 00:17:45.090 [BIRDS CHIRPING] 379 00:17:49.007 --> 00:17:52.670 Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac 380 00:17:52.770 --> 00:17:54.475 just were like that. 381 00:17:54.575 --> 00:17:58.146 Ron Tauranac and Jack made a formidable team. 382 00:17:58.722 --> 00:18:03.575 By remote control effectively, from twelve thousand miles away, 383 00:18:03.675 --> 00:18:07.607 Ron Tauranac was having very sound engineering ideas 384 00:18:07.707 --> 00:18:10.141 that he was communicating to Jack. 385 00:18:10.241 --> 00:18:12.330 He would come up with some rough sketches, 386 00:18:12.430 --> 00:18:14.480 he'd air-mail it over to Australia, 387 00:18:14.580 --> 00:18:15.862 Ron would have a look at it, 388 00:18:15.962 --> 00:18:18.243 be on the phone, he’d then do all the drawings. 389 00:18:18.343 --> 00:18:20.263 The drawings would then come back. 390 00:18:21.338 --> 00:18:23.734 John was finding some way 391 00:18:23.834 --> 00:18:27.574 of smuggling all these modifications past his dad 392 00:18:27.674 --> 00:18:29.747 without his dad noticing. 393 00:18:31.245 --> 00:18:32.988 That was the great thing. 394 00:18:33.088 --> 00:18:34.600 DAVID: And he’d make the rear suspension, 395 00:18:34.700 --> 00:18:37.634 or the gearbox and the mounting and everything. 396 00:18:37.734 --> 00:18:39.999 I mean, it was almost like a secret society 397 00:18:40.307 --> 00:18:41.435 with the two of them. 398 00:18:41.535 --> 00:18:45.352 And it was that, sort of, cheerful, in-house 399 00:18:45.452 --> 00:18:47.733 “Let’s do this, let’s try this,” 400 00:18:47.833 --> 00:18:50.996 and the sheer enthusiasm for going racing 401 00:18:51.096 --> 00:18:54.337 that enabled Cooper to establish what became known 402 00:18:54.437 --> 00:18:56.487 as the "Rear Engine Revolution." 403 00:18:56.587 --> 00:18:58.507 [FANFARE] 404 00:19:02.347 --> 00:19:04.666 STIRLING: My name is Stirling Moss 405 00:19:04.766 --> 00:19:08.506 and I drove all types of cars in all types of races. 406 00:19:08.606 --> 00:19:12.000 [WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING] 407 00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:13.651 PRESENTER: What is it that makes a man 408 00:19:13.751 --> 00:19:15.802 spend countless hours making toy racing cars? 409 00:19:15.902 --> 00:19:18.297 For the modeler is none other than Stirling Moss, 410 00:19:18.397 --> 00:19:20.832 possibly the world’s greatest racing driver. 411 00:19:20.932 --> 00:19:23.481 Here at his father’s pig farm, in Turing, Hertfordshire, 412 00:19:23.581 --> 00:19:25.977 let’s watch him relaxing with a miniature track. 413 00:19:26.077 --> 00:19:28.995 Rival in this grim struggle, is his wife, Katie. 414 00:19:29.917 --> 00:19:32.582 MIKE: You say, that man is my ultimate goal. 415 00:19:32.682 --> 00:19:34.832 Beat him and I’ve achieved something. 416 00:19:35.561 --> 00:19:37.189 STIRLING: Well, I wish you every success 417 00:19:37.289 --> 00:19:39.608 and please give your family all the best as well. 418 00:19:39.708 --> 00:19:40.760 Cheerio. 419 00:19:40.860 --> 00:19:44.024 NARRATOR: The logical favorite of the 1959 season, Moss, 420 00:19:44.124 --> 00:19:47.288 no doubt had his eye on taking out the championship. 421 00:19:47.388 --> 00:19:49.822 But, on his travels, Jack had taken a protege 422 00:19:49.922 --> 00:19:51.627 under this wing for Cooper. 423 00:19:51.727 --> 00:19:53.624 The young Bruce McLaren. 424 00:19:53.724 --> 00:19:55.313 PRESENTER: For many years, motor racing has been 425 00:19:55.413 --> 00:19:56.696 a popular sport in New Zealand, 426 00:19:56.796 --> 00:19:58.615 attracting drivers with a taste for thrills 427 00:19:58.715 --> 00:20:00.651 and mechanics with a taste for tinkering. 428 00:20:00.751 --> 00:20:02.993 DOUG: Jack was so impressed by young Bruce 429 00:20:03.093 --> 00:20:05.742 that effectively he became his mentor. 430 00:20:07.393 --> 00:20:08.886 PRESENTER: After his wobbly efforts, Bruce decides 431 00:20:08.895 --> 00:20:10.327 to stick to car racing. 432 00:20:10.427 --> 00:20:11.940 He says it's safer. 433 00:20:12.040 --> 00:20:15.319 Jack was the person who made things happen for Bruce. 434 00:20:15.419 --> 00:20:18.275 And in 1959, he joined Jack 435 00:20:18.375 --> 00:20:21.846 to start racing regularly at Grand Prix level. 436 00:20:21.946 --> 00:20:27.015 [GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING] 437 00:20:27.476 --> 00:20:29.741 NARRATOR: The first race was Monaco. 438 00:20:30.355 --> 00:20:32.636 It was the crown jewel of the Grand Prix circuit 439 00:20:32.736 --> 00:20:34.656 and seen as a rite of passage for drivers. 440 00:20:36.115 --> 00:20:39.740 Explaining Monte Carlo as a racing track is, uh... 441 00:20:39.840 --> 00:20:41.391 ANNOUNCER: The Monaco Grand Prix 442 00:20:41.491 --> 00:20:43.872 is known as "The Race of a Thousand Corners." 443 00:20:44.908 --> 00:20:47.189 It’s a very, very difficult circuit. 444 00:20:47.289 --> 00:20:49.339 You know, 21 corners, 78 laps, 445 00:20:49.439 --> 00:20:51.666 constantly coming at you, so narrow... 446 00:20:52.166 --> 00:20:54.431 You were off before the starting flag even fell. 447 00:20:54.892 --> 00:20:56.597 ANNOUNCER: And they're off! 448 00:20:56.697 --> 00:20:58.324 A hundred laps of a two-mile circuit 449 00:20:58.424 --> 00:20:59.899 through the Monte Carlo streets. 450 00:20:59.999 --> 00:21:02.072 A testing race for cars and drivers. 451 00:21:02.495 --> 00:21:05.198 With speed, you stop having to be conscious. 452 00:21:05.298 --> 00:21:07.194 You have to rely on instinct. 453 00:21:07.294 --> 00:21:08.825 ANNOUNCER: Just watch Moss's beautiful control 454 00:21:08.835 --> 00:21:10.420 as he takes a double bend. 455 00:21:10.520 --> 00:21:12.109 You are not driving at five-tenths. 456 00:21:12.209 --> 00:21:15.051 You’re driving at nine-tenths and sometimes ten-tenths. 457 00:21:15.627 --> 00:21:17.447 ANNOUNCER: Brabham is in second place now. 458 00:21:17.547 --> 00:21:19.674 TONY: Cooper finally had an engine 459 00:21:19.774 --> 00:21:21.694 that was as good as everyone else's. 460 00:21:22.039 --> 00:21:24.858 But the radiators were blowing hot air 461 00:21:24.958 --> 00:21:26.547 straight onto his feet. 462 00:21:26.647 --> 00:21:28.697 He was burning up, the pedals were red hot. 463 00:21:28.797 --> 00:21:30.771 He was scared to touch the brake. 464 00:21:30.871 --> 00:21:32.325 ANNOUNCER: Stirling’s Cooper-Climax 465 00:21:32.335 --> 00:21:33.843 developed transmission trouble. 466 00:21:33.943 --> 00:21:35.071 Bad luck. 467 00:21:35.171 --> 00:21:36.415 NARRATOR: And with Stirling gone, 468 00:21:36.515 --> 00:21:39.065 Jack drove faster than he ever had before. 469 00:21:39.165 --> 00:21:40.908 ANNOUNCER: Last lap and ahead of Tony Brooks' Ferrari 470 00:21:41.008 --> 00:21:42.290 was Jack Brabham. 471 00:21:42.390 --> 00:21:45.078 NARRATOR: Securing his first Grand Prix race win. 472 00:21:45.616 --> 00:21:48.588 This was shaping up to be a promising season. 473 00:21:48.688 --> 00:21:52.412 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 474 00:21:53.142 --> 00:21:57.557 [FIRE CRACKLING] 475 00:21:58.210 --> 00:22:02.204 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 476 00:22:04.047 --> 00:22:05.828 Jack was someone who you couldn’t 477 00:22:05.837 --> 00:22:07.710 particularly predict. 478 00:22:07.810 --> 00:22:10.129 ANNOUNCER: A perfect day, a great crowd at Aintree 479 00:22:10.229 --> 00:22:11.511 for the British Grand Prix. 480 00:22:11.611 --> 00:22:12.702 All you would predict 481 00:22:12.802 --> 00:22:14.660 is that he would do the unpredictable. 482 00:22:14.760 --> 00:22:17.002 ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham was driving a Cooper-Climax. 483 00:22:17.102 --> 00:22:18.576 TONY: So the British Grand Prix. 484 00:22:18.676 --> 00:22:20.688 He wasn’t necessarily the fastest driver out there, 485 00:22:20.788 --> 00:22:22.954 I think everyone agreed that Stirling Moss was that. 486 00:22:23.054 --> 00:22:26.087 Jack certainly was as competent as any driver out there. 487 00:22:27.047 --> 00:22:29.389 TONY: Stirling Moss, as always, went out flat-out. 488 00:22:30.042 --> 00:22:32.784 ANNOUNCER: Stirling Moss drove his BRM superbly. 489 00:22:32.884 --> 00:22:35.088 TONY: Jack started swinging the back out, 490 00:22:35.188 --> 00:22:37.967 for no other reason than to even up the tire wear. 491 00:22:38.067 --> 00:22:39.849 ANNOUNCER: Brabham shot ahead, determined to keep 492 00:22:39.949 --> 00:22:41.869 the number 12 out in front. 493 00:22:42.214 --> 00:22:44.188 Stirling Moss battled into second place. 494 00:22:44.288 --> 00:22:46.453 Stirling Moss had to stop and change his tires. 495 00:22:46.553 --> 00:22:48.512 ANNOUNCER: A delay fatal to his winning chance. 496 00:22:48.973 --> 00:22:50.984 Jack kept going and managed to win the race. 497 00:22:51.084 --> 00:22:52.481 ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham won, 498 00:22:52.490 --> 00:22:53.864 covering the 225 miles 499 00:22:53.964 --> 00:22:56.691 at an average of just under 90 miles an hour. 500 00:22:57.458 --> 00:22:59.240 DOUG: One of the most extraordinary things 501 00:22:59.340 --> 00:23:00.661 about Jack Brabham 502 00:23:00.761 --> 00:23:03.733 was how unselfish he could be. 503 00:23:03.833 --> 00:23:05.906 Jack, what a great sport you were. 504 00:23:06.405 --> 00:23:07.880 How that time in New Zealand, 505 00:23:07.980 --> 00:23:09.492 you lent me your spare back axle. 506 00:23:09.592 --> 00:23:14.738 He supported and mentored people who would likely become rivals. 507 00:23:15.160 --> 00:23:16.558 I’ve known Jack for a long time 508 00:23:16.658 --> 00:23:20.152 and he’s helped me, well, 100 percent in my racing. 509 00:23:20.843 --> 00:23:23.085 MIKE: You win the Monaco and British Grand Prix. 510 00:23:23.185 --> 00:23:25.120 Moss wins the Portuguese and Italian. 511 00:23:25.220 --> 00:23:27.371 Tony Brooks takes the French and German. 512 00:23:27.716 --> 00:23:29.382 TONY: Jack was one of three people who could win 513 00:23:29.391 --> 00:23:31.072 the World Championship, 514 00:23:31.172 --> 00:23:32.570 and there was just one race to go. 515 00:23:32.670 --> 00:23:34.144 And strangely, it was in America 516 00:23:34.244 --> 00:23:35.910 where they had never had a Grand Prix before 517 00:23:36.010 --> 00:23:37.331 and, really, it was a second-rate track. 518 00:23:37.431 --> 00:23:39.077 ANNOUNCER: The US Grand Prix attracts the world’s 519 00:23:39.087 --> 00:23:40.748 best auto-racing drivers. 520 00:23:40.848 --> 00:23:44.419 MIKE: It’s December 12, 1959, when you line up on the grid. 521 00:23:44.727 --> 00:23:47.698 TONY: As always, Stirling Moss went flying out of the gate. 522 00:23:47.798 --> 00:23:49.503 ANNOUNCER: The bumpy track was more than just a rumor. 523 00:23:49.603 --> 00:23:50.924 But he over-cooked it. 524 00:23:51.024 --> 00:23:53.765 Yeah, it was something funny with the gearbox. 525 00:23:53.865 --> 00:23:55.570 ANNOUNCER: ...and Australia’s Jack Brabham 526 00:23:55.670 --> 00:23:57.935 and New Zealander Bruce McLaren in the lead. 527 00:23:58.857 --> 00:24:00.255 TONY: Jack led most of the race 528 00:24:00.355 --> 00:24:02.712 with Bruce McLaren tucked in behind him. 529 00:24:02.812 --> 00:24:04.402 MIKE: The championship is in your grasp, 530 00:24:04.502 --> 00:24:05.745 and then two corners from the end, 531 00:24:05.845 --> 00:24:07.665 it happens again, didn’t it, Jack? 532 00:24:07.765 --> 00:24:09.124 He ran out of fuel. 533 00:24:09.224 --> 00:24:11.544 I run out of petrol. [LAUGHS] 534 00:24:11.644 --> 00:24:13.694 He’s 800 meters from the finish. 535 00:24:13.794 --> 00:24:15.921 MIKE: You decide to finish, by pushing your car 536 00:24:16.021 --> 00:24:17.226 uphill to the finishing line. 537 00:24:17.326 --> 00:24:18.954 TONY: Bruce was about to stop behind him 538 00:24:19.054 --> 00:24:20.682 and Jack said, “No, get on with it. 539 00:24:20.782 --> 00:24:22.333 If you win, I win the Championship.” 540 00:24:22.433 --> 00:24:25.021 MIKE: You crossed the line, surrounded by a police escort 541 00:24:25.121 --> 00:24:26.404 and screaming fans. 542 00:24:26.504 --> 00:24:28.170 DOUG: Jack and the little Coopers 543 00:24:28.270 --> 00:24:30.282 had beaten Ferrari and Maserati 544 00:24:30.382 --> 00:24:32.240 and put them squarely in their place. 545 00:24:32.340 --> 00:24:34.083 TONY: First Australian to be World Champion. 546 00:24:34.183 --> 00:24:35.714 The first man in a rear-engine car 547 00:24:35.724 --> 00:24:37.255 to be World Champion. 548 00:24:37.562 --> 00:24:39.497 He was a pretty happy boy. 549 00:24:39.597 --> 00:24:43.130 [TV STATIC] 550 00:24:45.319 --> 00:24:47.239 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 551 00:24:50.502 --> 00:24:53.075 NARRATOR: Jack had well and truly arrived. 552 00:24:53.689 --> 00:24:56.761 He’d been anointed into the "Realm of Champions" 553 00:24:57.376 --> 00:25:01.000 and 1960 was now a chance to further establish himself 554 00:25:01.100 --> 00:25:03.059 among the heroes of motorsport. 555 00:25:03.443 --> 00:25:06.184 MAN: Fangio and Ferrari, Moss and Farina. 556 00:25:06.284 --> 00:25:08.949 TONY: At the end of the day, to go fast, 557 00:25:09.049 --> 00:25:12.174 you need some serious gonads between your legs. 558 00:25:12.274 --> 00:25:14.286 [ENGINES REVVING] 559 00:25:14.386 --> 00:25:16.306 Men like drama, don’t they? 560 00:25:18.687 --> 00:25:22.273 You know, they love to do everything at its most risky. 561 00:25:22.373 --> 00:25:24.231 [PROPELLERS WHIRRING] 562 00:25:24.331 --> 00:25:26.727 So, they start the 1960 season 563 00:25:26.827 --> 00:25:28.839 with the 1959 car. 564 00:25:28.939 --> 00:25:31.373 Charlie Cooper, the old man, says, 565 00:25:31.473 --> 00:25:33.792 “No, I don’t want to spend money when we’re winning.” 566 00:25:33.892 --> 00:25:35.827 NARRATOR: But Jack knew they’d have to innovate 567 00:25:35.927 --> 00:25:37.939 to stay ahead of Ferrari and Lotus. 568 00:25:38.039 --> 00:25:40.358 And he and John Cooper, and Bruce McLaren 569 00:25:40.458 --> 00:25:43.722 all worked on this new car, the Cooper Lowline. 570 00:25:44.989 --> 00:25:46.579 NARRATOR: Jack’s instincts were right, 571 00:25:46.679 --> 00:25:49.689 with Bruce winning Argentina and Jack picking up a win 572 00:25:49.789 --> 00:25:50.764 at the Dutch Grand Prix. 573 00:25:50.864 --> 00:25:52.299 MAN: What are your thoughts when you’re driving 574 00:25:52.309 --> 00:25:53.798 a fast car like this, Jack? 575 00:25:53.898 --> 00:25:55.065 JACK: Well, Vic, 576 00:25:55.165 --> 00:25:57.330 it’s very exciting driving a motor car like this. 577 00:25:57.430 --> 00:25:59.212 GRAYSON: Empirically, what a car is, 578 00:25:59.312 --> 00:26:02.245 it’s a vehicle with an engine and four wheels 579 00:26:02.345 --> 00:26:04.265 that carries passengers. 580 00:26:04.611 --> 00:26:08.681 But, of course, it's an incredibly potent symbol. 581 00:26:10.716 --> 00:26:13.496 A car isn’t just this thing they drive around in. 582 00:26:13.596 --> 00:26:15.224 It is them. 583 00:26:15.324 --> 00:26:16.990 MARK: When the helmet does go on, 584 00:26:17.090 --> 00:26:19.140 and you’re in fighter pilot mode, 585 00:26:19.240 --> 00:26:21.905 and man and machine on the limit going into combat, 586 00:26:22.005 --> 00:26:23.925 you’re very much at one with the car. 587 00:26:25.038 --> 00:26:28.241 Spa was a particularly difficult one. 588 00:26:28.341 --> 00:26:30.813 ANNOUNCER: Stirling Moss and Jack Brabham, number two. 589 00:26:30.913 --> 00:26:33.655 Ditches, barbed wire fences beside the track. 590 00:26:33.755 --> 00:26:35.344 Basically, every hazard you could build 591 00:26:35.353 --> 00:26:36.995 into a racetrack 592 00:26:37.095 --> 00:26:38.263 was there at Spa. 593 00:26:38.363 --> 00:26:40.643 PRESENTER: It’s rare for anything to go wrong so early, 594 00:26:40.743 --> 00:26:42.064 but a triple crash came here. 595 00:26:42.164 --> 00:26:43.907 Two drivers die in the race. 596 00:26:44.007 --> 00:26:45.520 ANNOUNCER: Brabham, now faster than Moss... 597 00:26:45.620 --> 00:26:47.747 And the race kept going and Jack won. 598 00:26:47.847 --> 00:26:49.475 PRESENTER: Brabham, however, roared away to victory 599 00:26:49.575 --> 00:26:50.550 in the second heat... 600 00:26:50.650 --> 00:26:53.123 NARRATOR: Despite the tragedy, Jack kept his focus razor sharp 601 00:26:53.223 --> 00:26:54.812 for his next outing at Reims. 602 00:26:54.912 --> 00:26:55.906 ANNOUNCER: From the very first lap, 603 00:26:55.915 --> 00:26:56.886 it’s an all-out battle 604 00:26:56.986 --> 00:26:58.498 between the British and Italian machines. 605 00:26:58.598 --> 00:26:59.842 NARRATOR: With the lead exchanging 606 00:26:59.942 --> 00:27:02.300 in impossibly tight slipstream battles. 607 00:27:02.400 --> 00:27:04.143 ANNOUNCER: Brabham’s Cooper and Phil Hill’s Ferrari 608 00:27:04.243 --> 00:27:05.448 battle desperately to get a... 609 00:27:05.548 --> 00:27:08.582 For men, the traffic is the last Serengeti. 610 00:27:09.350 --> 00:27:11.592 It’s where they’re in conflict with others. 611 00:27:11.692 --> 00:27:13.589 They’re chasing... 612 00:27:13.689 --> 00:27:15.086 They’re having to negotiate through the forest 613 00:27:15.095 --> 00:27:16.492 of the streets. 614 00:27:17.298 --> 00:27:21.215 You know, so all the kind of ancient, primal, instincts, 615 00:27:21.752 --> 00:27:23.265 you can play it out in a car. 616 00:27:23.365 --> 00:27:25.415 ANNOUNCER: It’s Jack Brabham who gets the upper hand, 617 00:27:25.515 --> 00:27:28.395 streaking ahead for his third consecutive Grand Prix victory. 618 00:27:28.741 --> 00:27:31.521 NARRATOR: And after Reims, Jack made it five in a row... 619 00:27:31.621 --> 00:27:33.364 ANNOUNCER: Brabham’s Cooper-Climax well in front. 620 00:27:33.464 --> 00:27:34.745 NARRATOR: ...with wins at the British and Portuguese 621 00:27:34.755 --> 00:27:36.013 Grand Prix. 622 00:27:36.113 --> 00:27:38.532 ANNOUNCER: One more for an overcrowded mantelpiece. 623 00:27:38.955 --> 00:27:40.007 NARRATOR: He’d done it. 624 00:27:40.107 --> 00:27:42.487 Back to back World Championships. 625 00:27:43.179 --> 00:27:45.114 MIKE: Moss, Hawthorn, Collins... 626 00:27:45.214 --> 00:27:46.611 Jack, you faced an impressive rollcall 627 00:27:46.620 --> 00:27:48.017 of racing greats. 628 00:27:51.703 --> 00:27:54.329 [CROWD CHEERING] 629 00:27:54.429 --> 00:28:01.264 [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] 630 00:28:01.763 --> 00:28:03.775 In 1961 he branched out. 631 00:28:03.875 --> 00:28:05.910 Ron Tauranac joined him in England. 632 00:28:06.486 --> 00:28:10.418 He gave me a thousand pounds 633 00:28:10.518 --> 00:28:15.064 to move the family to England 634 00:28:15.164 --> 00:28:17.022 for a year’s trial. 635 00:28:17.122 --> 00:28:20.632 Although he’d won back to back World Championships 636 00:28:20.732 --> 00:28:22.398 in Cooper cars, 637 00:28:22.498 --> 00:28:25.470 some rival car constructors 638 00:28:25.570 --> 00:28:30.462 were actually building more sophisticated cars, 639 00:28:30.562 --> 00:28:32.635 with greater performance potential 640 00:28:33.058 --> 00:28:35.761 than Cooper, really, could shake a stick at. 641 00:28:35.861 --> 00:28:37.949 PRESENTER: ...to design each year as perfect and advanced 642 00:28:38.049 --> 00:28:40.238 a piece of engineering as science can devise. 643 00:28:40.584 --> 00:28:43.517 I just always concerned with what I was doing 644 00:28:43.617 --> 00:28:47.994 and staying ahead of the terrible opposition. 645 00:28:48.417 --> 00:28:50.736 JOHN: This is where we build our racing cars. 646 00:28:50.836 --> 00:28:53.462 And there are literally hundreds of component parts 647 00:28:53.562 --> 00:28:55.190 that go to building a racing car. 648 00:28:55.290 --> 00:28:57.148 DOUG: It’s a brutal comparison 649 00:28:57.248 --> 00:28:59.567 but Cooper have been described 650 00:28:59.667 --> 00:29:03.868 as a bunch of blacksmiths meeting in Chapman 651 00:29:03.968 --> 00:29:05.942 and Lotus a bunch of technologists. 652 00:29:06.042 --> 00:29:09.459 May your success continue, and good luck for 1961. 653 00:29:09.766 --> 00:29:11.686 Thank you, Vic. 654 00:29:14.259 --> 00:29:18.905 [ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING] 655 00:29:21.209 --> 00:29:23.259 PAUL: I’ve been up to Frisco for the Sprints, 656 00:29:23.359 --> 00:29:25.256 out to Charlotte to see the Stocks, 657 00:29:25.356 --> 00:29:26.715 into the Glen for the Grand Prix, 658 00:29:26.815 --> 00:29:29.364 Indy for the Drag and for the "Big One." 659 00:29:29.464 --> 00:29:31.169 I paid 200 million dollars 660 00:29:31.269 --> 00:29:32.705 to sit with 40 million fans. 661 00:29:32.805 --> 00:29:34.433 I’ve eaten twenty tons of hot dogs 662 00:29:34.533 --> 00:29:36.468 and drunk a Rose Bowl full of pop. 663 00:29:36.568 --> 00:29:39.448 I’m this year’s spectator, "Race Fan USA." 664 00:29:39.909 --> 00:29:41.267 PRESENTER: When the balloons go up beside the track 665 00:29:41.277 --> 00:29:42.650 at Indianapolis, 666 00:29:42.750 --> 00:29:43.994 spectators know it’s time 667 00:29:44.094 --> 00:29:46.221 for the start of the world’s most chancy motor race. 668 00:29:46.321 --> 00:29:48.986 DAVID: In 1961, at Indianapolis, 669 00:29:49.086 --> 00:29:52.826 Jack went there with his Formula One Cooper-Climax, 670 00:29:52.926 --> 00:29:56.973 which absolutely outraged and upset the ultra-conservative 671 00:29:57.073 --> 00:29:59.392 American Speedway fraternity. 672 00:29:59.492 --> 00:30:03.039 Brabham, what is the nature of the fuel used? 673 00:30:03.139 --> 00:30:04.555 NARRATOR: The Indy regulators came 674 00:30:04.565 --> 00:30:05.996 to watch the comically small car 675 00:30:06.096 --> 00:30:07.647 with its engine in the wrong spot. 676 00:30:07.747 --> 00:30:09.260 They had the engine in the back, 677 00:30:09.360 --> 00:30:11.487 which was complete anathema to them. 678 00:30:11.587 --> 00:30:13.753 But, the second thing, it was painted green! 679 00:30:13.853 --> 00:30:17.539 And at Indianapolis, green cars were killer cars. 680 00:30:18.076 --> 00:30:20.664 'Cause they’re a threat to my territory, 681 00:30:20.764 --> 00:30:22.008 to my very being 682 00:30:22.108 --> 00:30:23.659 that is my shiny, 683 00:30:23.759 --> 00:30:26.524 you know, phallus that I’m driving along in. 684 00:30:27.484 --> 00:30:29.803 PRESENTER: The big thrill wasn’t long in coming. 685 00:30:29.903 --> 00:30:31.416 A six-car pileup. 686 00:30:31.516 --> 00:30:33.182 NARRATOR: But within a couple of years, 687 00:30:33.282 --> 00:30:36.407 all Indy 500 cars were rear-engined. 688 00:30:36.507 --> 00:30:39.710 He showed that Formula One technology 689 00:30:39.810 --> 00:30:42.075 could work at Indianapolis. 690 00:30:43.649 --> 00:30:45.316 JOHN: After Jack won the World Championship, 691 00:30:45.416 --> 00:30:48.234 he told me he had an invite to go and see Mr. Ferrari. 692 00:30:48.334 --> 00:30:50.116 So he flew down to Italy 693 00:30:50.216 --> 00:30:52.174 and was interviewed by Mr. Ferrari. 694 00:30:53.940 --> 00:30:55.990 And he said he had quite a good offer. 695 00:30:56.090 --> 00:30:58.087 But he went home and thought about it. 696 00:30:58.510 --> 00:30:59.677 He said, "I turned it down." 697 00:30:59.777 --> 00:31:01.135 He said, “Because, the only reason that Colin 698 00:31:01.145 --> 00:31:02.480 and Bruce and myself 699 00:31:02.580 --> 00:31:04.246 went racing was to beat Ferrari, 700 00:31:04.346 --> 00:31:06.051 and I couldn’t possibly join them.” 701 00:31:06.151 --> 00:31:08.508 NARRATOR: Enzo Ferrari once told John Cooper 702 00:31:08.608 --> 00:31:11.081 that he'd never build a rear-engine race car. 703 00:31:11.181 --> 00:31:14.230 But, in '61, he did and it was a killer. 704 00:31:14.330 --> 00:31:16.956 DAVID: During the heart of that season, 705 00:31:17.056 --> 00:31:18.837 Ferrari just ran riot 706 00:31:18.937 --> 00:31:22.623 with their V6-engined, shark-nosed cars. 707 00:31:24.121 --> 00:31:25.749 Right, cue him. 708 00:31:25.849 --> 00:31:27.073 So, I’ve flown back from Rome to bring you 709 00:31:27.082 --> 00:31:28.283 these special pictures 710 00:31:28.383 --> 00:31:30.433 direct from the racetrack at Monza. 711 00:31:30.533 --> 00:31:31.739 NARRATOR: One of the few highlights 712 00:31:31.839 --> 00:31:34.105 was when Jack was leading at Monza. 713 00:31:34.488 --> 00:31:35.694 Congratulations, Phil. 714 00:31:35.794 --> 00:31:37.307 What sort of a race did you have? 715 00:31:37.407 --> 00:31:39.111 Peter, this was a real tough one. 716 00:31:39.211 --> 00:31:41.876 NARRATOR: But as on so many occasions that season, 717 00:31:41.976 --> 00:31:43.105 he broke down. 718 00:31:43.205 --> 00:31:45.562 PHIL: This Monza track has got some steep bankings. 719 00:31:45.662 --> 00:31:47.828 It’s got fast straights, hairpins, the lot. 720 00:31:47.928 --> 00:31:48.883 PRESENTER: Then in the second lap, 721 00:31:48.893 --> 00:31:49.671 approaching the curve 722 00:31:49.771 --> 00:31:51.591 on the inner section of the road circuit, 723 00:31:51.691 --> 00:31:52.935 it happened. 724 00:31:53.035 --> 00:31:54.317 Hold it. Hold it, Mike. 725 00:31:54.417 --> 00:31:56.851 We’ve got the pictures on "three" in the wrong order. 726 00:31:56.951 --> 00:31:58.886 Can you check them? It should be Phil Hill first, 727 00:31:58.986 --> 00:32:00.691 then the banking, then the checkered... 728 00:32:00.791 --> 00:32:01.997 [EXPLOSIONS] 729 00:32:02.097 --> 00:32:04.017 [SCREAMING] 730 00:32:04.324 --> 00:32:05.529 PRESENTER: von Trips' Ferrari, 731 00:32:05.538 --> 00:32:06.720 after touching Clark's Lotus, 732 00:32:06.820 --> 00:32:08.678 had crashed through a fence and rebounded. 733 00:32:08.778 --> 00:32:10.521 Wolfgang von Trips lay dead 734 00:32:10.621 --> 00:32:12.825 and death came to 13 spectators 735 00:32:12.925 --> 00:32:14.845 in this appalling crash. 736 00:32:21.833 --> 00:32:23.039 MAN: All right. Magi, sorry. 737 00:32:23.139 --> 00:32:25.059 Just give me a minute, I'll fix it. 738 00:32:25.750 --> 00:32:27.670 Jolly good. Let's go again then. 739 00:32:28.438 --> 00:32:30.834 [ENGINES REVVING] 740 00:32:30.934 --> 00:32:32.561 MAN: Do you think the combination 741 00:32:32.570 --> 00:32:34.213 of Brabham and Cooper 742 00:32:34.313 --> 00:32:35.825 is going to bring you 743 00:32:35.925 --> 00:32:38.229 the World Championship hat-trick this year? 744 00:32:38.997 --> 00:32:41.109 PRESENTER: It was the Ferraris who triumphed once more. 745 00:32:41.455 --> 00:32:44.043 NARRATOR: And after back to back championship wins, 746 00:32:44.143 --> 00:32:46.615 Jack had well and truly fallen back to earth. 747 00:32:46.715 --> 00:32:49.726 DOUG: By the end of the 1961 season, 748 00:32:49.826 --> 00:32:51.492 Jack fully appreciated 749 00:32:51.592 --> 00:32:54.548 that many of the things that he wanted to do 750 00:32:54.932 --> 00:32:56.599 would be impossible 751 00:32:56.699 --> 00:33:00.731 against the increasing conservatism of Charlie Cooper. 752 00:33:01.191 --> 00:33:04.970 RON: When I went to England, I worked for Jack's company 753 00:33:05.070 --> 00:33:07.427 during normal working hours. 754 00:33:07.527 --> 00:33:08.656 And overnight, 755 00:33:08.756 --> 00:33:11.728 I spent the time designing our first Formula One car. 756 00:33:11.828 --> 00:33:14.070 They were building a Formula Junior car 757 00:33:14.170 --> 00:33:15.721 for a private customer. 758 00:33:15.821 --> 00:33:17.411 RON: Which was really mine, 759 00:33:17.511 --> 00:33:20.214 I wasn't paid for that at all. I just drew it in a night. 760 00:33:20.314 --> 00:33:23.247 And the opportunity was there to go independent. 761 00:33:23.347 --> 00:33:27.110 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 762 00:33:32.255 --> 00:33:33.960 PRESENTER: Surrounded by English countryside 763 00:33:34.060 --> 00:33:36.149 is the racing car factory of Jack Brabham. 764 00:33:36.249 --> 00:33:38.990 JACK: Well, I came over, principally, in the first place, 765 00:33:39.090 --> 00:33:40.373 to go motor racing. 766 00:33:40.473 --> 00:33:44.366 And after motor racing for quite a few years, 767 00:33:44.466 --> 00:33:47.591 the interest in the mechanical side of it 768 00:33:47.691 --> 00:33:49.319 has always been very great. 769 00:33:49.419 --> 00:33:53.451 And the obvious answer was to eventually build our own cars. 770 00:33:53.873 --> 00:33:55.885 DOUG: A friend of theirs pointed out 771 00:33:55.985 --> 00:34:01.300 that the French pronunciation of MRD, merde, 772 00:34:01.400 --> 00:34:03.319 was very rude. 773 00:34:03.780 --> 00:34:06.445 In French, MRD means merde, 774 00:34:06.545 --> 00:34:08.465 which is covered all over in shit. 775 00:34:09.502 --> 00:34:12.934 ...and said, you know, you have the perfect name. 776 00:34:13.034 --> 00:34:15.507 The perfect marketing brand. 777 00:34:15.607 --> 00:34:22.134 [SLOW PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] 778 00:34:24.477 --> 00:34:28.370 No. Why would it be Brabham Racing Developments 779 00:34:28.470 --> 00:34:31.596 when it-- when I was designing the cars 780 00:34:31.696 --> 00:34:34.460 and was responsible for the build of them? 781 00:34:35.420 --> 00:34:37.724 [TAPE WHIRRING] 782 00:34:38.530 --> 00:34:41.310 You know, we should have had a neutral name, 783 00:34:41.410 --> 00:34:43.330 or I should have been involved in it. 784 00:34:44.559 --> 00:34:46.379 BERNIE: I think in the end, I mean, 785 00:34:46.479 --> 00:34:48.299 both of them wanted to win 786 00:34:48.399 --> 00:34:51.432 and were doing whatever they thought was necessary to win. 787 00:34:51.816 --> 00:34:53.636 DOUG: Motor Racing Developments 788 00:34:53.736 --> 00:34:56.670 thereafter produced Brabham racing cars. 789 00:34:56.770 --> 00:35:00.356 And Brabham racing cars became the thing to have 790 00:35:00.456 --> 00:35:03.274 for Formula Two racing, Formula Three racing, 791 00:35:03.374 --> 00:35:06.830 and went on to the most tremendous customer success. 792 00:35:12.052 --> 00:35:14.601 When you're married to Jackie Oliver, 793 00:35:14.701 --> 00:35:16.944 who's a pretty quick man in the Grand Prix Circuit, 794 00:35:17.044 --> 00:35:19.900 do you ever talk about the danger at all? 795 00:35:20.000 --> 00:35:22.051 We don't really talk about it to our husbands 796 00:35:22.151 --> 00:35:24.470 because we know they're gonna go on racing. 797 00:35:24.570 --> 00:35:27.657 You have to let a boy or a man do want they wanna do. 798 00:35:27.757 --> 00:35:30.306 One wife next to me started screaming and yelling, 799 00:35:30.406 --> 00:35:32.457 so I sat there and I got scared. 800 00:35:32.557 --> 00:35:33.992 I never was afraid before. 801 00:35:34.092 --> 00:35:36.604 The best thing one can do is make sure you're really, 802 00:35:36.704 --> 00:35:38.623 well, financially secure. 803 00:35:40.812 --> 00:35:43.039 I don't think it was easy for my mom. 804 00:35:47.263 --> 00:35:51.195 If I look back and think, the thing that really shaped her 805 00:35:51.295 --> 00:35:54.843 was the danger of Grand Prix racing in the '60s. 806 00:35:54.943 --> 00:35:56.647 She was very nervous. 807 00:35:56.747 --> 00:35:59.489 Because men are stupid enough to take risks. 808 00:35:59.589 --> 00:36:01.509 You know, men are addicted to risks. 809 00:36:02.545 --> 00:36:04.542 Women are sensible, you know. 810 00:36:04.849 --> 00:36:07.422 They don't, uh, wanna die. 811 00:36:08.574 --> 00:36:11.392 Betty was the most nervous person 812 00:36:11.492 --> 00:36:12.583 in the team. 813 00:36:12.683 --> 00:36:15.946 I mean, she was a nervous wreck, really. 814 00:36:17.290 --> 00:36:19.379 She was tough. [LAUGHS] 815 00:36:19.479 --> 00:36:21.399 Wow, was she tough. 816 00:36:21.706 --> 00:36:24.371 I don't know how she went and watched Jack every weekend. 817 00:36:24.471 --> 00:36:26.905 To go there and pretty much every weekend 818 00:36:27.005 --> 00:36:28.925 someone was gonna die 819 00:36:29.501 --> 00:36:31.958 made them a different breed of people. 820 00:36:32.266 --> 00:36:35.952 They went to a lot of funerals. Very good friends of theirs. 821 00:36:36.451 --> 00:36:37.694 You know, from within the paddock, 822 00:36:37.704 --> 00:36:38.947 all the drivers. 823 00:36:39.331 --> 00:36:42.763 And I think that probably shaped her more than anything, 824 00:36:42.863 --> 00:36:45.566 was that fear of Jack going out there 825 00:36:45.666 --> 00:36:47.586 and not coming back again. 826 00:36:48.278 --> 00:36:49.598 HUGHIE: But I think that's probably 827 00:36:49.607 --> 00:36:50.942 what was the bottom line, 828 00:36:51.042 --> 00:36:53.284 was that she now had three kids, and, you know, 829 00:36:53.384 --> 00:36:54.897 the last thing you wanna do 830 00:36:54.997 --> 00:36:57.071 is have her husband get wiped out in a race car. 831 00:36:58.568 --> 00:36:59.851 -RON: Ready to go? -MAN: Yes. 832 00:36:59.951 --> 00:37:02.270 Okay. Let me-- let me do my thing, you-- 833 00:37:02.370 --> 00:37:03.652 We try it my way, 834 00:37:03.752 --> 00:37:05.672 -then you say no, okay? -MAN: But... 835 00:37:08.936 --> 00:37:10.932 Well, of course, uh, 836 00:37:11.316 --> 00:37:15.348 I have to say the duo of... 837 00:37:15.771 --> 00:37:18.842 Ron and Jack was very interesting. 838 00:37:19.687 --> 00:37:22.467 Ron always came across as someone 839 00:37:22.567 --> 00:37:25.063 who was preoccupied, 840 00:37:25.831 --> 00:37:27.228 intense. 841 00:37:27.328 --> 00:37:30.339 Jack came across as somebody 842 00:37:30.439 --> 00:37:32.834 who was always preoccupied, 843 00:37:32.934 --> 00:37:34.370 intense. 844 00:37:34.470 --> 00:37:36.367 -RON: Okay? Guys. -MAN: That was good. 845 00:37:36.467 --> 00:37:38.863 Okay. Guys, guys, guys, you gotta be professional. 846 00:37:38.963 --> 00:37:41.781 Okay? And that means not frigging walking around... 847 00:37:41.881 --> 00:37:43.067 -MAN: Yes. -...distracting me 848 00:37:43.076 --> 00:37:44.277 when I'm trying to focus. 849 00:37:44.377 --> 00:37:46.274 You know? So, you know... 850 00:37:46.374 --> 00:37:47.579 MAN: All right. 851 00:37:47.679 --> 00:37:50.866 They were both pretty grumpy guys. 852 00:37:51.442 --> 00:37:52.917 And they were very conscious 853 00:37:53.017 --> 00:37:56.933 of making every minute of every day pay. 854 00:38:00.428 --> 00:38:02.862 You are not the flavor of this month this moment, 855 00:38:02.962 --> 00:38:04.858 clunking down there. 856 00:38:04.958 --> 00:38:06.855 He didn't suffer fools gladly. 857 00:38:06.955 --> 00:38:10.181 DOUG: In fact, we all respected them for it. 858 00:38:10.488 --> 00:38:12.500 You know? That was a funny thing. 859 00:38:12.600 --> 00:38:16.478 Two senior people screwing up my TV. 860 00:38:17.207 --> 00:38:19.680 Take your shoes off. [CHUCKLES] 861 00:38:19.780 --> 00:38:25.286 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 862 00:38:25.386 --> 00:38:27.360 WOMAN: Thirteenth, Monaco Grand Prix, 863 00:38:27.460 --> 00:38:29.625 they want you one day earlier this year, Mr. Brabham. 864 00:38:29.725 --> 00:38:32.121 Roger phoned, can he catch a lift? 865 00:38:32.221 --> 00:38:34.195 Seventeenth, you're due at Zandvoort. 866 00:38:34.295 --> 00:38:36.498 On the 25th, you present a Formula Three car 867 00:38:36.598 --> 00:38:39.225 to the best pupil driver for BP in London. 868 00:38:39.325 --> 00:38:40.453 You'll have to make a speech, 869 00:38:40.553 --> 00:38:42.297 witty and not more than 10 minutes. 870 00:38:42.397 --> 00:38:45.445 Tickets on reservation for your flight to Australia... 871 00:38:45.545 --> 00:38:48.479 DAVID: The whole Brabham Formula One program 872 00:38:48.579 --> 00:38:53.724 was formalized when Dan Gurney joined in 1963. 873 00:38:54.914 --> 00:38:57.410 ANNOUNCER: Still out in front, Dan "The Man" Gurney. 874 00:38:58.562 --> 00:39:00.843 NARRATOR: Early into the 1963 program, 875 00:39:00.943 --> 00:39:02.647 Jack's hopes of another championship 876 00:39:02.656 --> 00:39:04.337 were already looking unlikely. 877 00:39:04.437 --> 00:39:05.950 ANNOUNCER: Behind, number six, Jack Brabham. 878 00:39:06.050 --> 00:39:09.214 They would lead races, and the engine would fail. 879 00:39:09.314 --> 00:39:11.326 PRESENTER: ...with fuel trouble five laps from the end. 880 00:39:11.426 --> 00:39:13.345 Very bad luck. 881 00:39:13.921 --> 00:39:15.548 NARRATOR: The days of being single-mindedly focused 882 00:39:15.558 --> 00:39:17.162 on the track 883 00:39:17.262 --> 00:39:19.758 must have seemed like a luxury now to Jack. 884 00:39:20.065 --> 00:39:22.331 He had cars to build and payroll to meet. 885 00:39:22.715 --> 00:39:25.149 He was racing against, you know, the Jimmy Clarks, 886 00:39:25.249 --> 00:39:26.915 you know, the Stirling Mosses, 887 00:39:27.015 --> 00:39:28.605 but, you know, unlike them, 888 00:39:28.705 --> 00:39:31.677 he had other business ventures going on as well. 889 00:39:31.777 --> 00:39:34.288 NARRATOR: He was also being outclassed in the field 890 00:39:34.388 --> 00:39:35.324 by Dan Gurney. 891 00:39:35.424 --> 00:39:37.628 ANNOUNCER: Dan Gurney, driving a Brabham-Climax, number 9, 892 00:39:37.728 --> 00:39:39.894 was on his tail until engine trouble. 893 00:39:39.994 --> 00:39:41.890 NARRATOR: By the end of 1963, 894 00:39:41.990 --> 00:39:43.196 Dan was starting to sense 895 00:39:43.296 --> 00:39:46.114 that Jack didn't want to spend the money needed to compete 896 00:39:46.214 --> 00:39:48.111 with the likes of Lotus and Ferrari. 897 00:39:48.211 --> 00:39:50.530 ANNOUNCER: Jim Clark wins at over 107 miles an hour. 898 00:39:50.630 --> 00:39:53.487 Jack Brabham, he was very tight with money. 899 00:39:53.587 --> 00:39:55.790 Because his interest was in... 900 00:39:55.890 --> 00:39:57.941 the cost of the car, the maintenance. 901 00:39:58.041 --> 00:40:00.844 They'd work long hours, late nights and early mornings. 902 00:40:01.650 --> 00:40:03.700 MAN: Here, Jack has gathered a team of experts 903 00:40:03.800 --> 00:40:05.989 to bring a car first over the finishing line. 904 00:40:07.333 --> 00:40:09.230 NARRATOR: Finally, it all came together 905 00:40:09.330 --> 00:40:10.881 at the French Grand Prix. 906 00:40:10.981 --> 00:40:12.916 ANNOUNCER: Jim Clark and Dan Gurney in hot pursuit. 907 00:40:13.016 --> 00:40:15.642 NARRATOR: Gurney had bagged a win for Brabham Racing. 908 00:40:15.742 --> 00:40:18.023 And that was the Brabham marque's 909 00:40:18.123 --> 00:40:20.153 first World Championship-qualifying 910 00:40:20.163 --> 00:40:22.193 Grand Prix success. 911 00:40:22.654 --> 00:40:24.819 NARRATOR: But Jack still couldn't break his drought. 912 00:40:24.919 --> 00:40:27.162 PRESENTER: Jack Brabham, racing ace and designer too, 913 00:40:27.262 --> 00:40:28.506 in a Brabham, of course. 914 00:40:28.606 --> 00:40:31.616 NARRATOR: It had been four years since he had won an F1 race 915 00:40:31.716 --> 00:40:34.112 and the aura around him as a champion 916 00:40:34.212 --> 00:40:35.801 was quickly fading. 917 00:40:35.901 --> 00:40:38.374 PRESENTER: In the third lap, Dan Gurney was in real trouble. 918 00:40:38.474 --> 00:40:40.332 NARRATOR: Gurney's patience was wearing thin 919 00:40:40.432 --> 00:40:42.367 with Jack's reluctance to spend money. 920 00:40:42.467 --> 00:40:43.788 PRESENTER: He'd just broken the lap record 921 00:40:43.888 --> 00:40:45.170 when he had to drive into the pitch 922 00:40:45.270 --> 00:40:47.190 with his transistor ignition on fire. 923 00:40:47.498 --> 00:40:50.277 NARRATOR: Things with Ron were also starting to fall apart. 924 00:40:50.377 --> 00:40:53.080 All the journalists believed that he was responsible 925 00:40:53.180 --> 00:40:55.446 for the design and build of the cars. 926 00:40:56.444 --> 00:40:58.648 Which was my responsibility, actually. 927 00:40:58.748 --> 00:41:00.510 NARRATOR: Gurney won again at the season-ending 928 00:41:00.519 --> 00:41:02.334 Mexico Grand Prix, 929 00:41:02.434 --> 00:41:04.369 but it seemed too little, too late. 930 00:41:04.469 --> 00:41:06.366 JACK: Hello, I'm Jack Brabham. 931 00:41:06.466 --> 00:41:08.747 NARRATOR: Dan was now the only one winning anything. 932 00:41:08.847 --> 00:41:11.611 But no one seemed to be celebrating his achievements. 933 00:41:12.111 --> 00:41:14.238 They didn't celebrate at all, never. 934 00:41:14.338 --> 00:41:16.849 They really were like a bunch of Trappist monks. 935 00:41:16.949 --> 00:41:19.713 I never saw Jack really let his hair down at any time. 936 00:41:20.059 --> 00:41:22.340 He wasn't really that sort of bloke. 937 00:41:22.440 --> 00:41:25.373 He probably just went away quietly and counted his money, 938 00:41:25.473 --> 00:41:27.777 and took it to Switzerland... 939 00:41:28.852 --> 00:41:31.118 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 940 00:41:31.809 --> 00:41:34.550 Flew to Monaco with Jack in 1968. 941 00:41:34.650 --> 00:41:37.123 We flew to Nice via Geneva 942 00:41:37.223 --> 00:41:39.949 and Jack disappeared for a couple of hours. 943 00:41:40.986 --> 00:41:42.806 I reckon he'd been to the bank, 944 00:41:42.906 --> 00:41:44.826 put it like that. 945 00:41:49.242 --> 00:41:51.315 I mean, everybody cheats in Formula One. 946 00:41:53.734 --> 00:41:55.669 MAN: Did you ever cheat? 947 00:41:55.769 --> 00:41:57.689 I-- Never caught. 948 00:41:58.035 --> 00:42:00.431 "It's only wrong if you get caught," that's what Jack said. 949 00:42:00.531 --> 00:42:02.451 "It's only wrong if you get caught." 950 00:42:05.177 --> 00:42:07.097 MAN: Did Brabham ever cheat? 951 00:42:09.708 --> 00:42:11.628 Never caught. 952 00:42:12.242 --> 00:42:14.162 [HORSE WHINNYING] 953 00:42:18.002 --> 00:42:20.344 The wrong word is "cheat." 954 00:42:21.419 --> 00:42:24.107 People do whatever they can to get an advantage. 955 00:42:28.792 --> 00:42:30.995 That's the only way you will achieve 956 00:42:31.095 --> 00:42:33.092 maximum results, 957 00:42:34.475 --> 00:42:37.792 if you're really running on the edge of the rules. 958 00:42:37.892 --> 00:42:39.789 MAN: And on the track, boy, did Black Jack, 959 00:42:39.889 --> 00:42:41.939 the most competitive of all Australian sportsmen, 960 00:42:42.039 --> 00:42:43.244 mean business. 961 00:42:43.344 --> 00:42:45.587 Yet such was the skill level of them all in those days 962 00:42:45.687 --> 00:42:49.719 that Black Jack was involved in very, very few accidents. 963 00:42:50.295 --> 00:42:53.251 Some will tell us that he just used to cause them. 964 00:42:55.555 --> 00:42:57.721 DOUG: 'Cause another thing you've got to appreciate 965 00:42:57.821 --> 00:43:02.428 was that Black Jack, or Blackie, could be as mean as rat shit. 966 00:43:04.348 --> 00:43:06.437 JACKIE: I've had more marks in my crash helmet 967 00:43:06.537 --> 00:43:09.225 from Jack Brabham than I have in any accident. 968 00:43:10.185 --> 00:43:12.849 DOUG: If it came to elbows-out driving, 969 00:43:12.949 --> 00:43:14.869 Jack was the man. 970 00:43:15.791 --> 00:43:17.918 JACKIE: He knew exactly when to just 971 00:43:18.018 --> 00:43:20.207 go off the racetrack a tiny bit. 972 00:43:21.474 --> 00:43:25.214 Rivals retired their cars with holes through the radiator. 973 00:43:25.314 --> 00:43:28.385 And there was always stones and gravel which... 974 00:43:30.190 --> 00:43:32.663 He winked at me when he told me that. He said, 975 00:43:32.763 --> 00:43:35.312 "You know what I used to do, don't you, Tony?" 976 00:43:35.412 --> 00:43:38.576 I don't believe it. Even if it's true. [CHUCKLES] 977 00:43:38.676 --> 00:43:44.105 [RETRO MUSIC PLAYING] 978 00:43:44.205 --> 00:43:46.640 PRESENTER: The checkered flag down across your bonnet, 979 00:43:46.740 --> 00:43:48.675 and no cars ahead of you. 980 00:43:48.775 --> 00:43:51.731 That's the best sight in the world to a racing driver. 981 00:43:54.112 --> 00:43:58.082 I mean sports, what's glorious about sports 982 00:43:58.182 --> 00:44:00.371 is that it's ritualized war. 983 00:44:01.715 --> 00:44:04.188 NARRATOR: Jack was desperately looking for solutions 984 00:44:04.288 --> 00:44:06.668 to get back on top for 1965. 985 00:44:07.091 --> 00:44:10.623 GRAYSON: We still want that gritty, reckless, 986 00:44:11.238 --> 00:44:14.310 stoic hero. 987 00:44:15.769 --> 00:44:20.069 Because then that-- he's kind of carrying with him... 988 00:44:20.760 --> 00:44:23.602 that bit in us that we wish we could be like that. 989 00:44:25.675 --> 00:44:27.686 Jack didn't particularly like the Coventry Climax 990 00:44:27.696 --> 00:44:29.722 V-8 engine 991 00:44:29.822 --> 00:44:31.450 to which they were wedded. 992 00:44:31.550 --> 00:44:33.793 NARRATOR: So he turned his attention to Formula Two 993 00:44:33.893 --> 00:44:35.021 and enlisted Honda. 994 00:44:35.121 --> 00:44:37.709 Yes, well, Honda had sent an engine over 995 00:44:37.809 --> 00:44:41.741 for Formula Two with four young engineers. 996 00:44:41.841 --> 00:44:45.158 Everything was started from zero, 997 00:44:45.258 --> 00:44:47.178 so we had to learn everything. 998 00:44:47.793 --> 00:44:50.995 NARRATOR: The Brabham Honda outing was yet another failure. 999 00:44:51.095 --> 00:44:53.760 They ran the engine up for us, 1000 00:44:53.860 --> 00:44:55.871 but it was no good for a race car 1001 00:44:55.971 --> 00:44:58.352 because we didn't have that many revs available. 1002 00:44:59.120 --> 00:45:01.040 He irritated so much. 1003 00:45:01.424 --> 00:45:04.434 NARRATOR: And 1965 was another one of those years, 1004 00:45:04.534 --> 00:45:06.608 with not a single win for the team. 1005 00:45:07.376 --> 00:45:09.580 Dan was very much like my dad, you know. 1006 00:45:09.680 --> 00:45:12.037 He wanted to start his own team. 1007 00:45:12.137 --> 00:45:14.878 NARRATOR: Gurney finally left at the end of the season 1008 00:45:14.978 --> 00:45:16.491 to start his own team. 1009 00:45:16.591 --> 00:45:19.548 And Jack's old protege Bruce McLaren did the same, 1010 00:45:19.893 --> 00:45:22.097 leaving Cooper's to start McLaren Racing. 1011 00:45:22.197 --> 00:45:24.632 MAN: Fangio was 47 when he retired 1012 00:45:24.732 --> 00:45:27.473 with five Grand Prix World titles behind him. 1013 00:45:27.573 --> 00:45:29.531 Have you any set retirement plans? 1014 00:45:30.222 --> 00:45:32.964 I think there must have been some comments in the press 1015 00:45:33.064 --> 00:45:35.345 about the age of Jack as a driver. 1016 00:45:35.445 --> 00:45:36.727 MAN: You are 40 now, 1017 00:45:36.827 --> 00:45:38.570 and I suppose you must have given some thought 1018 00:45:38.670 --> 00:45:41.258 to how long you can keep going, and stay at the front. 1019 00:45:41.358 --> 00:45:44.407 RON: And his wife, Betty, used that as an argument 1020 00:45:44.507 --> 00:45:45.866 to stop racing 1021 00:45:45.966 --> 00:45:48.438 and to have more influence on the children 1022 00:45:48.538 --> 00:45:50.458 and get back to Australia. 1023 00:45:53.837 --> 00:45:55.757 Didn't seem to bother him. 1024 00:45:56.717 --> 00:45:58.637 He wanted to race. 1025 00:45:59.213 --> 00:46:00.649 That was it. 1026 00:46:00.749 --> 00:46:02.377 I haven't got any different plans, 1027 00:46:02.477 --> 00:46:05.203 but I certainly don't intend to retire at the moment. 1028 00:46:06.317 --> 00:46:08.137 Well, yeah, I think the mythologizing-- 1029 00:46:08.237 --> 00:46:09.557 I mean, I think we all-- 1030 00:46:09.657 --> 00:46:11.577 We are human beings, we love a story. 1031 00:46:12.576 --> 00:46:14.587 You know? That's what-- that's central 1032 00:46:14.687 --> 00:46:16.162 to how we construct ourselves, 1033 00:46:16.262 --> 00:46:17.275 is narrative. 1034 00:46:17.375 --> 00:46:20.908 It's the most powerful and most ancient form of culture. 1035 00:46:21.676 --> 00:46:24.441 And so, you need heroes, you got to have them. 1036 00:46:25.209 --> 00:46:27.720 NARRATOR: And if Jack could beat out Gurney and McLaren 1037 00:46:27.820 --> 00:46:30.369 in the following season, and become the first driver 1038 00:46:30.469 --> 00:46:32.888 to win a championship in a car bearing his own name, 1039 00:46:33.387 --> 00:46:36.728 he knew he'd not only become a hero again, 1040 00:46:37.150 --> 00:46:39.070 he'd become a legend. 1041 00:46:52.433 --> 00:46:56.503 For 1966 and the new three-liter formula. 1042 00:46:57.041 --> 00:47:00.435 Coventry Climax announced that they would not be building 1043 00:47:00.535 --> 00:47:01.855 a suitable engine. 1044 00:47:01.955 --> 00:47:05.027 So we had to produce a Formula One car in a hurry. 1045 00:47:06.448 --> 00:47:09.305 DOUG: And few people were willing to supply them 1046 00:47:09.405 --> 00:47:11.977 because they'd be making a rod for their own backs. 1047 00:47:15.625 --> 00:47:18.866 Jack was racing in America and he heard about these. 1048 00:47:18.966 --> 00:47:21.477 JOHN: He saw opportunity in 1966, I guess, 1049 00:47:21.577 --> 00:47:23.497 that wasn't obvious to anybody else. 1050 00:47:23.804 --> 00:47:25.701 DOUG: The new engine that he chose 1051 00:47:25.801 --> 00:47:29.540 was an American prototype production V-8. 1052 00:47:29.640 --> 00:47:31.460 He told Repco about them. 1053 00:47:31.560 --> 00:47:34.916 RON: Repco agreed to support Jack. 1054 00:47:35.016 --> 00:47:37.143 TONY: Phil Irving was charged with drawing 1055 00:47:37.243 --> 00:47:39.524 the Repco Brabham race engine. 1056 00:47:39.624 --> 00:47:41.597 BERNIE: Drivers and teams were delighted 1057 00:47:41.697 --> 00:47:44.017 because they thought it would be not very competitive. 1058 00:47:44.117 --> 00:47:47.357 No Formula One engine had ever been built in Australia. 1059 00:47:47.457 --> 00:47:49.124 JACKIE: Who would have gone to Australia 1060 00:47:49.224 --> 00:47:51.850 to get a motor-racing engine for Formula One? 1061 00:47:51.950 --> 00:47:53.923 JOHN: Betty cooked me a steak for lunch at home with Jack 1062 00:47:54.023 --> 00:47:55.382 and we shook hands on a deal. 1063 00:47:55.482 --> 00:47:58.531 And the idea was that I was gonna work on the Repco engines. 1064 00:47:58.631 --> 00:48:02.087 [CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING] 1065 00:48:02.893 --> 00:48:05.788 DOUG: And Ron Tauranac engineered that 1066 00:48:05.888 --> 00:48:09.613 into BT19 and BT20 cars. 1067 00:48:10.150 --> 00:48:11.548 JOHN: There was no test bed, 1068 00:48:11.648 --> 00:48:13.314 so they would just get put in the cars 1069 00:48:13.414 --> 00:48:16.501 and Jack and Danny had to drive them a bit slowly 1070 00:48:16.601 --> 00:48:17.615 for the first few laps. 1071 00:48:17.715 --> 00:48:19.343 They were very practical... 1072 00:48:19.443 --> 00:48:21.877 The Repco engine was constantly failing. 1073 00:48:21.977 --> 00:48:24.642 ...and they had all the reliability. 1074 00:48:24.742 --> 00:48:26.715 One particular practice we went to, 1075 00:48:26.815 --> 00:48:28.735 one of the valve seats fell out. 1076 00:48:29.157 --> 00:48:32.705 And this Australian-developed engine 1077 00:48:32.805 --> 00:48:36.008 was regarded initially as very much the underdog 1078 00:48:36.108 --> 00:48:38.027 in Formula One competition. 1079 00:48:39.947 --> 00:48:42.420 TONY: They've only got literally one engine. 1080 00:48:42.520 --> 00:48:44.709 It breaks down in its first race. 1081 00:48:47.051 --> 00:48:48.971 It breaks down in its second race. 1082 00:48:53.079 --> 00:48:56.474 HUGHIE: There was a moment there before we went to Reims 1083 00:48:56.574 --> 00:48:58.009 where Jack said, "Do you think we should 1084 00:48:58.019 --> 00:48:59.454 carry on with this thing?" 1085 00:49:00.682 --> 00:49:03.654 GEOFF: They had my dad, Bruce McLaren, and Dan Gurney 1086 00:49:03.754 --> 00:49:05.382 all building their own cars, 1087 00:49:05.482 --> 00:49:08.416 taking on the might of Lotus and Ferrari. 1088 00:49:08.516 --> 00:49:10.835 PRESENTER: Jack Brabham approving the Brabham Repco... 1089 00:49:10.935 --> 00:49:13.254 We both said, no, no, we gotta keep going. 1090 00:49:13.354 --> 00:49:14.770 PRESENTER: Jack Brabham's car is proving 1091 00:49:14.779 --> 00:49:16.195 to be greater than anticipated. 1092 00:49:16.925 --> 00:49:18.399 It beats the Ferraris. 1093 00:49:18.499 --> 00:49:19.973 PRESENTER: It was victory for Brabham. 1094 00:49:20.073 --> 00:49:22.239 His average speed was also the fastest ever seen... 1095 00:49:22.339 --> 00:49:24.965 Hang on, this engine that no one is taking seriously, 1096 00:49:25.065 --> 00:49:26.693 it has beaten the Ferraris. 1097 00:49:26.793 --> 00:49:28.920 ANNOUNCER: It's also the first time that a driver 1098 00:49:29.020 --> 00:49:30.379 has ever won a world title event 1099 00:49:30.479 --> 00:49:32.399 in a car of his own construction. 1100 00:49:33.013 --> 00:49:35.333 And all of a sudden, we were King Kong 1101 00:49:35.433 --> 00:49:37.252 and away we went. 1102 00:49:37.352 --> 00:49:40.017 ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham driving a Repco Brabham. 1103 00:49:40.117 --> 00:49:43.819 DOUG: And they just won race after race, after race, 1104 00:49:43.919 --> 00:49:46.299 driven by Jack Brabham and by Denny Hulme. 1105 00:49:46.760 --> 00:49:48.350 RON: Well, I didn't think about it. 1106 00:49:48.450 --> 00:49:50.154 We just carried on with the next one. 1107 00:49:50.254 --> 00:49:52.381 ANNOUNCER: The fastest European race since the war. 1108 00:49:52.481 --> 00:49:54.670 A very proud moment in all of our lives. 1109 00:49:55.400 --> 00:49:58.563 DOUG: They were very, very competent people 1110 00:49:58.663 --> 00:50:02.403 producing beautifully well-made machines. 1111 00:50:02.503 --> 00:50:04.323 [THUNDER RUMBLES] 1112 00:50:04.423 --> 00:50:05.705 Is that rain? 1113 00:50:05.805 --> 00:50:10.912 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 1114 00:50:19.744 --> 00:50:22.063 TONY: Jack has won three races in a row. 1115 00:50:22.163 --> 00:50:23.945 with an engine people were laughing at 1116 00:50:24.045 --> 00:50:25.596 at the start of the year. 1117 00:50:25.696 --> 00:50:27.419 If that's not enough, he's got a Honda engine 1118 00:50:27.428 --> 00:50:29.128 in his Formula Two car. 1119 00:50:29.228 --> 00:50:31.471 ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham, powered by a Japanese Honda engine. 1120 00:50:31.571 --> 00:50:32.968 TONY: He's worked really closely with them, 1121 00:50:33.068 --> 00:50:34.427 and suddenly they have a world beater. 1122 00:50:34.527 --> 00:50:35.541 [NOBUHIKO LAUGHS] 1123 00:50:35.641 --> 00:50:37.461 ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham and his teammate 1124 00:50:37.561 --> 00:50:39.496 are one-two in the overall points standing. 1125 00:50:39.596 --> 00:50:41.531 TONY: So after all those dark years, 1126 00:50:41.631 --> 00:50:43.259 they are so close to winning the championship. 1127 00:50:43.359 --> 00:50:45.716 ANNOUNCER: Brabham in his Repco Brabham number 3. 1128 00:50:45.816 --> 00:50:49.671 The Australian won the drivers' world title in '59 and '60. 1129 00:50:49.771 --> 00:50:51.476 Nürburgring is known as the Green Hell. 1130 00:50:51.576 --> 00:50:52.858 ANNOUNCER: The German Grand Prix, 1131 00:50:52.958 --> 00:50:55.930 fourteen miles of ups and downs over the grueling Nürburgring. 1132 00:50:56.030 --> 00:50:57.696 The most difficult, most challenging, 1133 00:50:57.796 --> 00:51:01.982 most prestigious, most historic racetrack in the world. 1134 00:51:02.327 --> 00:51:04.147 GEOFF: You can go off into the forest 1135 00:51:04.247 --> 00:51:06.167 and they're not gonna find you for weeks. 1136 00:51:07.089 --> 00:51:08.563 And it's raining. 1137 00:51:08.663 --> 00:51:10.329 It is extremely dangerous. 1138 00:51:10.429 --> 00:51:11.981 ANNOUNCER: Fastest lap in practice, 1139 00:51:12.081 --> 00:51:14.169 number one, world champion Jim Clark. 1140 00:51:14.269 --> 00:51:16.780 NARRATOR: This was the biggest race of Jack's life. 1141 00:51:16.880 --> 00:51:18.086 [SOLDIERS SINGING] 1142 00:51:18.186 --> 00:51:19.507 NARRATOR: To win at Nürburg, 1143 00:51:19.607 --> 00:51:21.834 guaranteeing motorsport immortality. 1144 00:51:22.141 --> 00:51:24.521 No sooner has the race started then there's tragedy. 1145 00:51:26.979 --> 00:51:29.820 TONY: Jacky Ickx and John Taylor collide. 1146 00:51:30.128 --> 00:51:31.986 So, we have a car on fire. 1147 00:51:32.086 --> 00:51:34.098 John Taylor is in a Brabham car. 1148 00:51:34.198 --> 00:51:35.345 ANNOUNCER: Brabham still leading, 1149 00:51:35.355 --> 00:51:36.555 driving a Repco Brabham. 1150 00:51:36.655 --> 00:51:39.128 It was an era where drivers would drive 1151 00:51:39.228 --> 00:51:40.933 straight past a burning car 1152 00:51:41.033 --> 00:51:43.697 where someone literally was being immolated. 1153 00:51:43.797 --> 00:51:45.425 If there was an accident, they drove harder, 1154 00:51:45.525 --> 00:51:47.445 because they knew others would be backing off. 1155 00:51:47.868 --> 00:51:49.265 ANNOUNCER: On Brabham's tail, John Surtees' Cooper-Maserati 1156 00:51:49.274 --> 00:51:50.647 number seven. 1157 00:51:50.747 --> 00:51:51.991 TONY: Most teams would've collapsed 1158 00:51:52.091 --> 00:51:54.718 during that long season of lack of success. 1159 00:51:54.818 --> 00:51:56.311 ANNOUNCER: The Australian won the drivers' world title 1160 00:51:56.320 --> 00:51:57.751 in '59 and '60. 1161 00:51:57.851 --> 00:51:59.901 TONY: And they are a hair's breadth away 1162 00:52:00.001 --> 00:52:01.399 from winning the World Championship, 1163 00:52:01.499 --> 00:52:03.434 which would make Jack a three-time world champion. 1164 00:52:03.534 --> 00:52:05.531 ANNOUNCER: Brabham, on his way to victory. 1165 00:52:06.491 --> 00:52:13.210 [ROCK MUSIC PLAYING] 1166 00:52:13.786 --> 00:52:15.837 ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham, ex-world champ, 1167 00:52:15.937 --> 00:52:17.603 proves he's not too old at forty 1168 00:52:17.703 --> 00:52:20.275 by this superbly confident win. 1169 00:52:23.962 --> 00:52:25.781 DOUG: And for the very first time 1170 00:52:25.791 --> 00:52:27.610 in motor racing history, 1171 00:52:27.917 --> 00:52:31.426 we had a world champion driver 1172 00:52:31.526 --> 00:52:34.076 who'd won the World Championship 1173 00:52:34.176 --> 00:52:36.326 in a car bearing his own name. 1174 00:52:45.004 --> 00:52:49.535 WOMAN: ...a state funeral for a three-time world champion. 1175 00:52:49.957 --> 00:52:52.007 Motor racing great Sir Jack Brabham 1176 00:52:52.107 --> 00:52:55.540 has been remembered as a legend, on and off the track, 1177 00:52:55.640 --> 00:52:57.383 at his state funeral today. 1178 00:52:57.483 --> 00:53:00.109 His life could have come straight from the pages 1179 00:53:00.209 --> 00:53:02.644 of the Boys' Own adventure books of his day. 1180 00:53:02.744 --> 00:53:06.061 Jack passed away on Monday morning, May the 19th, 1181 00:53:06.161 --> 00:53:08.173 in their home here on the Gold Coast. 1182 00:53:08.273 --> 00:53:10.193 He was 88 years of age. 1183 00:53:12.958 --> 00:53:14.394 Right. 1184 00:53:14.494 --> 00:53:17.427 Um, uh... 1185 00:53:17.527 --> 00:53:21.943 I don't think any, uh, world champion-- no, no sport... 1186 00:53:22.327 --> 00:53:25.567 I don't think any multiple world champion sportsman 1187 00:53:25.667 --> 00:53:28.470 ever achieves what they achieve 1188 00:53:28.893 --> 00:53:32.195 without inflicting some collateral family damage. 1189 00:53:36.572 --> 00:53:38.492 Oh, I think, um... 1190 00:53:39.452 --> 00:53:41.042 you know, Jack was old school. 1191 00:53:41.142 --> 00:53:43.062 Um... 1192 00:53:44.022 --> 00:53:46.187 In some way, a likable rouge. 1193 00:53:46.287 --> 00:53:48.337 In many ways... 1194 00:53:48.437 --> 00:53:51.241 he and I had a lot of conflict. 1195 00:53:53.544 --> 00:53:55.364 There were certain things where he went, 1196 00:53:55.464 --> 00:53:57.553 "You know what, Jack? You're out of order." 1197 00:53:57.653 --> 00:53:59.765 You know? I fell out with him several times. 1198 00:54:03.605 --> 00:54:07.153 I think my dad ended up sacrificing quite a lot, 1199 00:54:07.253 --> 00:54:09.787 particularly, I think, from a family point of view. 1200 00:54:10.286 --> 00:54:11.760 He went over on his own 1201 00:54:11.860 --> 00:54:15.139 and left his family behind for a year at a time, 1202 00:54:15.239 --> 00:54:16.483 but I would never do that. 1203 00:54:16.583 --> 00:54:19.785 He didn't have time at that particular point 1204 00:54:19.885 --> 00:54:23.687 to really take too much interest in what we were doing. 1205 00:54:24.992 --> 00:54:26.928 DAVID: He was either at a racetrack 1206 00:54:27.028 --> 00:54:28.947 or he was in his workshop. 1207 00:54:29.639 --> 00:54:32.826 And he'd come home to eat, sleep, and off he'd go again. 1208 00:54:34.554 --> 00:54:37.333 "He had an enormous amount of grit and determination, 1209 00:54:37.433 --> 00:54:39.353 and never gave up, 1210 00:54:39.699 --> 00:54:41.672 which was demonstrated in 1959, 1211 00:54:41.772 --> 00:54:43.515 when he pushed his car across the line 1212 00:54:43.615 --> 00:54:46.342 to win his first Formula One World Championship." 1213 00:54:48.415 --> 00:54:49.966 I've lost the train of thought now. 1214 00:54:50.066 --> 00:54:52.078 Go back to the question. 1215 00:54:52.178 --> 00:54:55.035 Tonight, we are celebrating 70 years 1216 00:54:55.135 --> 00:54:57.631 of amazing history and heritage, 1217 00:54:58.092 --> 00:54:59.950 and paying homage to it. 1218 00:55:00.050 --> 00:55:01.970 [FIRE CRACKLING] 1219 00:55:08.113 --> 00:55:09.549 ANNOUNCER: Jack goes down the main straight 1220 00:55:09.649 --> 00:55:11.661 at close to 140 miles an hour. 1221 00:55:11.761 --> 00:55:13.543 Jim Clark barely three seconds behind him. 1222 00:55:13.643 --> 00:55:16.423 I was one when my dad won his third World Championship, 1223 00:55:16.523 --> 00:55:18.227 and he retired when I was five. 1224 00:55:18.327 --> 00:55:21.837 So I don't remember any of his '60s period of racing. 1225 00:55:21.937 --> 00:55:23.641 MAN: It's another one of those many happy occasions... 1226 00:55:23.741 --> 00:55:25.753 DAVID: I was surrounded by lots of trophies, 1227 00:55:25.853 --> 00:55:27.827 but they were objects. I really didn't understand 1228 00:55:27.927 --> 00:55:30.284 what they were, and yeah, you know, Dad was away a lot. 1229 00:55:30.384 --> 00:55:33.241 He retired, although at the end of 1970, 1230 00:55:33.341 --> 00:55:35.046 we went back to Australia, 1231 00:55:35.146 --> 00:55:38.617 he started up three businesses, and he started up racing again 1232 00:55:38.717 --> 00:55:40.652 in touring cars. 1233 00:55:40.752 --> 00:55:43.593 GEOFF: What he was doing required that he spend 1234 00:55:44.169 --> 00:55:47.087 eighteen hours a day doing what he was doing. 1235 00:55:48.585 --> 00:55:51.979 So, he was always in and out of the house. 1236 00:55:52.079 --> 00:55:55.074 More out than in, to be honest with you. 1237 00:55:55.996 --> 00:55:59.505 Yeah, I mean, I just got on and did my own thing, 1238 00:55:59.605 --> 00:56:01.679 and was quite happy doing that. 1239 00:56:02.408 --> 00:56:04.075 But anyone I met, 1240 00:56:04.175 --> 00:56:05.419 the first thing out of their mouth, 1241 00:56:05.519 --> 00:56:06.762 "Oh, that's Jack Brabham's son." 1242 00:56:06.862 --> 00:56:08.298 You know, "That's Jack Brabham's son." 1243 00:56:08.398 --> 00:56:12.853 And that's the bit I found difficult to cope with. 1244 00:56:13.621 --> 00:56:15.440 In terms of "Who am I?" 1245 00:56:15.540 --> 00:56:17.460 If I'm Jack's son, who am I? 1246 00:56:18.766 --> 00:56:21.354 So, when I look back, I think, yeah, he was away, 1247 00:56:21.454 --> 00:56:23.719 but did it affect me? It's difficult to say. 1248 00:56:24.372 --> 00:56:26.154 PRESENTER: Racing writers have called him 1249 00:56:26.254 --> 00:56:27.574 "The Shy Champion." 1250 00:56:27.674 --> 00:56:29.993 TONY: I've been an author for decades 1251 00:56:30.093 --> 00:56:32.144 and I've probably now read every single word 1252 00:56:32.244 --> 00:56:34.025 ever written about Jack Brabham. 1253 00:56:34.125 --> 00:56:36.137 PRESENTER: The quietly spoken gentleman of the circuits... 1254 00:56:36.237 --> 00:56:39.132 TONY: And yet, he's almost impossible to read. 1255 00:56:39.232 --> 00:56:41.070 PRESENTER: The name of Brabham ranks 1256 00:56:41.080 --> 00:56:42.972 now with Fangio and Ferrari. 1257 00:56:43.072 --> 00:56:44.469 TONY: It's so easy to talk about 1258 00:56:44.569 --> 00:56:46.504 the extraordinary things that he's done, 1259 00:56:46.604 --> 00:56:48.578 but in terms of getting into his mind, 1260 00:56:48.678 --> 00:56:51.404 that's a much, much more difficult proposition. 1261 00:56:57.164 --> 00:56:58.677 MAN: So, Ron, where you're drawing 1262 00:56:58.777 --> 00:57:02.363 is between your face and this lens, okay? 1263 00:57:02.463 --> 00:57:04.052 -My face? -This area around here, please, 1264 00:57:04.152 --> 00:57:05.704 Oh, because I can't see the lens. 1265 00:57:05.804 --> 00:57:07.355 That's right. If you just work around here, 1266 00:57:07.455 --> 00:57:08.852 -we'll be all right. -Yeah. So... 1267 00:57:08.952 --> 00:57:10.503 MAN: Around about here, where my hand is. 1268 00:57:10.603 --> 00:57:11.770 -Yeah, okay. -MAN: Okay? 1269 00:57:11.870 --> 00:57:13.790 I don't know what the hell to draw. 1270 00:57:17.861 --> 00:57:19.988 Ugh, it all slips down. So... 1271 00:57:20.088 --> 00:57:21.600 MAN: That's all right, that's all right. 1272 00:57:21.700 --> 00:57:22.714 Remember, it's hand-drawn. 1273 00:57:22.814 --> 00:57:25.195 Yeah, but it's just a mess though. 1274 00:57:25.847 --> 00:57:28.627 See, this is really-- just slips down 1275 00:57:28.727 --> 00:57:30.816 as soon as I put any pressure on it. 1276 00:57:30.916 --> 00:57:33.235 MAN: Well, thankfully, you're not designing the next... 1277 00:57:33.335 --> 00:57:35.600 the next big Formula One revolution. 1278 00:57:37.098 --> 00:57:39.018 Unfortunately. 1279 00:57:39.402 --> 00:57:44.163 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 1280 00:57:45.315 --> 00:57:49.900 I don't really know quite how truly friendly 1281 00:57:50.000 --> 00:57:52.304 Ron and Jack Brabham were. 1282 00:57:53.264 --> 00:57:56.619 He took ideas from me, and so forth, 1283 00:57:56.719 --> 00:58:00.866 and I got equipment from him and help on machining from him. 1284 00:58:01.366 --> 00:58:03.109 MAN: So, it was very much a mutual respect? 1285 00:58:03.209 --> 00:58:05.129 That's right. 1286 00:58:05.858 --> 00:58:08.392 He had more respect for money than I did. 1287 00:58:11.464 --> 00:58:13.899 DOUG: Ron Tauranac, I always recall 1288 00:58:13.999 --> 00:58:18.468 as one of the most competitive race engineers I've ever met. 1289 00:58:18.568 --> 00:58:20.772 It was very difficult to decide who was actually 1290 00:58:20.872 --> 00:58:22.922 steering the ship because, obviously, 1291 00:58:23.022 --> 00:58:27.299 Jack had very firm views on how to set up a car, 1292 00:58:27.399 --> 00:58:31.024 and they would spend endless amounts of time 1293 00:58:31.124 --> 00:58:36.001 debating this or, you could say, even arguing about it. 1294 00:58:38.458 --> 00:58:40.432 GEOFF: Another myth is that people talk about 1295 00:58:40.532 --> 00:58:42.966 genes being passed down the family. 1296 00:58:43.066 --> 00:58:45.078 Uh, that's not true. 1297 00:58:45.178 --> 00:58:47.098 Racing is a disease. 1298 00:58:50.054 --> 00:58:52.297 DAVID: Growing up on the farm, I loved to speed. 1299 00:58:52.397 --> 00:58:54.639 You know, I would drive every vehicle, 1300 00:58:54.739 --> 00:58:58.694 every motorbike, every tractor, flat out, sideways, 1301 00:58:59.116 --> 00:59:01.766 always trying to find that extra limit. 1302 00:59:02.918 --> 00:59:05.889 Went to a workshop, saw a go-kart sitting there, 1303 00:59:05.989 --> 00:59:08.232 never seen a racing go-kart in my life. 1304 00:59:08.332 --> 00:59:10.252 Didn't even know people raced them. 1305 00:59:10.597 --> 00:59:13.262 The mechanic was there, working on the kart, 1306 00:59:13.362 --> 00:59:16.564 and I said, "Do people race these things, do they?" 1307 00:59:16.664 --> 00:59:20.082 And he sort of looked at me and said, "Are you adopted?" 1308 00:59:23.077 --> 00:59:25.549 So, when I jumped in the go-kart for the very first time, 1309 00:59:25.649 --> 00:59:28.068 and Dad's watching me, he's just gone, 1310 00:59:28.798 --> 00:59:30.718 "Okay, where the hell's that come from?" 1311 00:59:32.062 --> 00:59:34.534 You know, when I drove race cars, 1312 00:59:34.634 --> 00:59:36.554 the speed meant nothing. 1313 00:59:37.476 --> 00:59:40.294 It was competing against somebody else and beating them. 1314 00:59:40.394 --> 00:59:43.236 That was the thrill that I got out of racing. 1315 00:59:43.696 --> 00:59:45.516 DAVID: He's a veteran anyway, so, 1316 00:59:45.616 --> 00:59:47.283 you can see the lines, you know? 1317 00:59:47.383 --> 00:59:48.588 [LAUGHTER] 1318 00:59:48.688 --> 00:59:51.199 WOMAN: David is the third of Sir Jack Brabham's sons 1319 00:59:51.299 --> 00:59:54.064 to follow the former Formula One world champion. 1320 00:59:54.755 --> 00:59:57.520 DAVID: I think the turning point for me was... 1321 00:59:57.827 --> 01:00:00.799 I did a race and my dad came to it, 1322 01:00:00.899 --> 01:00:02.911 and I won by, like, half a lap, 1323 01:00:03.011 --> 01:00:08.194 and that was the time he went, "This kid could go a long way." 1324 01:00:08.809 --> 01:00:12.149 MAN: So, do you think-- did you aspire to be like your brothers? 1325 01:00:12.879 --> 01:00:14.622 I aspired to beat them. 1326 01:00:14.722 --> 01:00:20.559 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 1327 01:00:21.250 --> 01:00:23.070 MAN: On November 29, 1970, 1328 01:00:23.170 --> 01:00:25.565 the racing greats of the world gather in your honor 1329 01:00:25.665 --> 01:00:27.562 for the Brands Hatch farewell meeting. 1330 01:00:27.662 --> 01:00:30.173 The next evening, they gather again for a farewell banquet 1331 01:00:30.273 --> 01:00:32.654 given in your honor at the Savoy Hotel in London. 1332 01:00:33.192 --> 01:00:34.704 Well, Betty, the Ford Company 1333 01:00:34.804 --> 01:00:36.778 presents you with a ball and chain, 1334 01:00:36.878 --> 01:00:38.659 and it's inscribed, 1335 01:00:38.759 --> 01:00:42.345 "Presented to Betty Brabham on 25th November, 1970, 1336 01:00:42.445 --> 01:00:43.805 who won in the end." 1337 01:00:43.905 --> 01:00:45.724 And here's your reply. 1338 01:00:45.824 --> 01:00:47.568 I've been asked what I did 1339 01:00:47.668 --> 01:00:49.741 to make Jack give up motor racing. 1340 01:00:50.240 --> 01:00:52.444 It was quite simple really. I said, 1341 01:00:52.544 --> 01:00:56.207 "Jack, motor racing or divorce?" 1342 01:00:56.307 --> 01:00:58.265 [LAUGHTER] 1343 01:00:58.649 --> 01:01:01.352 GEOFF: When my dad retired in 1970, 1344 01:01:01.452 --> 01:01:04.540 he retired and just sold everything out to Ron. 1345 01:01:04.640 --> 01:01:06.767 I'm surprised that he did that. 1346 01:01:06.867 --> 01:01:10.146 It was a little bit, I think, out of character for him 1347 01:01:10.246 --> 01:01:12.972 just to shut the door and walk away. 1348 01:01:13.625 --> 01:01:17.096 MAN: And now, Jack, here is your good friend, Ron Tauranac. 1349 01:01:17.196 --> 01:01:21.995 [DRAMATIC MUSIC] 1350 01:01:24.146 --> 01:01:27.333 RON: Well, I was at Monaco, 1351 01:01:28.062 --> 01:01:32.939 and I was walking along past the oceanfront 1352 01:01:33.284 --> 01:01:36.372 and a friend said, "Just a moment. 1353 01:01:36.472 --> 01:01:38.176 I'll introduce you to someone." 1354 01:01:38.276 --> 01:01:40.196 They introduced me to Bernie Ecclestone. 1355 01:01:40.734 --> 01:01:43.191 [LAUGHING] 1356 01:01:44.151 --> 01:01:46.685 I said I'd buy into the team. 1357 01:01:48.529 --> 01:01:53.689 And I said, "Well, no. I wouldn't sell a half share, 1358 01:01:53.789 --> 01:01:56.607 I've been in business with a friend for many years, 1359 01:01:56.707 --> 01:02:00.010 and I wouldn't want to do that again." 1360 01:02:00.816 --> 01:02:04.233 And it then came that he wanted to sell, full stop. 1361 01:02:04.541 --> 01:02:06.768 I said, "But I'll sell you the business." 1362 01:02:07.190 --> 01:02:10.469 Ron had his own ideas of what should happen, 1363 01:02:10.569 --> 01:02:12.466 and he didn't always, sort of, fall into line, 1364 01:02:12.566 --> 01:02:14.486 so I changed them. 1365 01:02:15.330 --> 01:02:19.055 He gave me a call and offered me... 1366 01:02:19.554 --> 01:02:21.489 I think it was one million less. 1367 01:02:21.589 --> 01:02:23.740 [EERIE MUSIC PLAYING] 1368 01:02:25.275 --> 01:02:26.865 Really? I don't remember. 1369 01:02:26.965 --> 01:02:28.862 I should have bartered but I didn't. 1370 01:02:28.962 --> 01:02:30.206 I just thought about it and said, 1371 01:02:30.306 --> 01:02:32.087 "Gee, I'm in trouble if I don't sell now. 1372 01:02:32.187 --> 01:02:34.276 I've arranged all these things." 1373 01:02:34.376 --> 01:02:36.296 So I agreed to sell. 1374 01:02:36.987 --> 01:02:39.498 It was agreed, he was looking for one price, 1375 01:02:39.598 --> 01:02:41.787 and I'd probably try and buy it for less. 1376 01:02:42.900 --> 01:02:45.242 Nothing's changed as far as I'm concerned. 1377 01:02:46.049 --> 01:02:47.946 GEOFF: And then when Bernie sold it, 1378 01:02:48.046 --> 01:02:50.825 things, you know, went downhill really fast 1379 01:02:50.925 --> 01:02:53.421 from that point to where it just totally disappeared. 1380 01:03:06.131 --> 01:03:08.757 TONY: We had a shed full of things 1381 01:03:08.857 --> 01:03:11.353 that were very sentimental to the family. 1382 01:03:12.774 --> 01:03:15.270 So, it was a telephone call from my mom. 1383 01:03:16.345 --> 01:03:19.893 "I got some bad news. The shed went up in flames." 1384 01:03:19.993 --> 01:03:21.913 And it's, like, "What?" 1385 01:03:22.873 --> 01:03:24.232 How could it go up in flames? 1386 01:03:24.332 --> 01:03:26.252 You know, it was just a mystery. 1387 01:03:27.365 --> 01:03:30.375 And anything we can't find, 1388 01:03:30.475 --> 01:03:32.756 we just assumed that it's down to the fire. 1389 01:03:32.856 --> 01:03:36.350 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING] 1390 01:03:41.112 --> 01:03:43.431 GRAYSON: To a child, their parents 1391 01:03:43.531 --> 01:03:45.643 are the only ones they have. 1392 01:03:46.564 --> 01:03:49.482 So, therefore, you do put them on a pedestal. 1393 01:03:49.828 --> 01:03:52.055 You know, they are perfect because... 1394 01:03:52.554 --> 01:03:55.488 in order for you to survive in the family unit, 1395 01:03:55.588 --> 01:03:58.276 you've got to believe that they're perfect. 1396 01:03:59.658 --> 01:04:03.283 But if you have a very famous and successful parent, 1397 01:04:03.383 --> 01:04:06.930 their perfection is held up there, 1398 01:04:07.030 --> 01:04:09.465 not just by you but by the public as well, 1399 01:04:09.565 --> 01:04:13.174 and I suppose they've got further to fall. 1400 01:04:14.134 --> 01:04:16.515 So, if they turn out to be flawed, 1401 01:04:18.703 --> 01:04:20.700 you know, it might be harder to deal with. 1402 01:04:21.084 --> 01:04:22.500 PRESENTER: There was action aplenty 1403 01:04:22.510 --> 01:04:23.902 in the Formula Ford event. 1404 01:04:24.002 --> 01:04:27.281 David Brabham in the yellow car was about to lap Schumac 1405 01:04:27.381 --> 01:04:29.009 when he smashed into the back of him. 1406 01:04:29.109 --> 01:04:30.660 YOUNG DAVID: I'm coping pretty well. 1407 01:04:30.760 --> 01:04:32.542 I've still got a lot to learn, 1408 01:04:32.642 --> 01:04:34.562 through what Dad's telling me and that. 1409 01:04:35.483 --> 01:04:38.786 DAVID: When I was at the Australian Grand Prix in 1987, 1410 01:04:39.246 --> 01:04:41.489 my girlfriend got pregnant that year, 1411 01:04:41.589 --> 01:04:44.253 and I didn't qualify particularly well. 1412 01:04:44.353 --> 01:04:46.542 I was last, 30 something. 1413 01:04:47.195 --> 01:04:51.971 Just before the race, my father had a Formula One pass, 1414 01:04:52.071 --> 01:04:54.467 and I said, you know, "You better get me one of those 1415 01:04:54.567 --> 01:04:56.487 for when I'm in Formula One." 1416 01:04:56.948 --> 01:04:58.537 Didn't know what else to say, you know, 1417 01:04:58.637 --> 01:04:59.805 and he just said, "You know, 1418 01:04:59.905 --> 01:05:02.400 the days of you ever getting to Formula One are finished." 1419 01:05:03.821 --> 01:05:06.624 And he just, like, deadpan, dead serious. 1420 01:05:07.008 --> 01:05:10.518 And that just triggered a switch in me, 1421 01:05:10.618 --> 01:05:12.399 and I told him to fuck off, 1422 01:05:12.499 --> 01:05:14.419 and I walked off. 1423 01:05:14.880 --> 01:05:18.428 And I had steam coming out of my-- 1424 01:05:18.528 --> 01:05:19.963 I was so angry, 1425 01:05:20.063 --> 01:05:22.675 so incredibly pissed off with him, 1426 01:05:23.404 --> 01:05:26.706 that I took that energy 1427 01:05:27.014 --> 01:05:28.933 and took it into the race car. 1428 01:05:29.740 --> 01:05:34.424 And turned it into... let's call it determination. 1429 01:05:34.847 --> 01:05:36.052 "I'm gonna fucking show you." 1430 01:05:36.152 --> 01:05:40.491 [DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING] 1431 01:05:48.171 --> 01:05:49.913 MAN: Jack Brabham, keeping an eye 1432 01:05:49.923 --> 01:05:51.719 on young son David. 1433 01:05:51.819 --> 01:05:53.485 DAVID: And I got in that car and I said, 1434 01:05:53.585 --> 01:05:56.250 "You tell those guys in front of me that I'm coming through. 1435 01:05:56.350 --> 01:05:58.285 They'd better get out of my way." 1436 01:05:58.385 --> 01:06:01.933 Boom, off I went, and drove ten notches higher 1437 01:06:02.033 --> 01:06:04.121 than I've ever driven up until that point. 1438 01:06:04.221 --> 01:06:05.657 MAN: Young David made a slow start 1439 01:06:05.757 --> 01:06:07.308 but he's come back through the pack. 1440 01:06:07.408 --> 01:06:10.787 Yes, actually, David is actually third now. 1441 01:06:11.171 --> 01:06:14.911 I went from 35th to 1st in 14 laps 1442 01:06:15.011 --> 01:06:16.931 and won the race in 15. 1443 01:06:18.429 --> 01:06:20.924 That whole experience for me was my gift 1444 01:06:21.424 --> 01:06:26.223 because I discovered something about the mental mindset, 1445 01:06:27.030 --> 01:06:30.831 and what can be created by that. 1446 01:06:32.866 --> 01:06:35.301 It was a magic lesson for me 1447 01:06:35.401 --> 01:06:37.320 because I carried that through my career. 1448 01:06:40.776 --> 01:06:44.362 I think as I got older, you start to understand 1449 01:06:44.462 --> 01:06:46.513 more about what Jack actually achieved, 1450 01:06:46.613 --> 01:06:49.262 and it's so big, so vast. 1451 01:06:49.608 --> 01:06:52.680 Probably was a negative 1452 01:06:52.987 --> 01:06:55.483 because I-- My attitude was 1453 01:06:56.174 --> 01:06:58.900 "Well, I'll never get that far, but how far could I get?" 1454 01:07:02.510 --> 01:07:05.673 [CHUCKLES] We actually met at-- 1455 01:07:05.773 --> 01:07:07.593 initially we met at a racetrack. 1456 01:07:07.693 --> 01:07:09.475 You know, I grew up with motor sport, 1457 01:07:09.575 --> 01:07:11.495 so it just seemed normal. 1458 01:07:12.685 --> 01:07:14.774 DAVID: I had had a very successful 1459 01:07:14.874 --> 01:07:17.001 Formula Three season in 1989. 1460 01:07:17.101 --> 01:07:19.865 I'd won the British F3 Championship and the World Cup, 1461 01:07:20.365 --> 01:07:23.644 and I'm at home, doing my thing, and the phone rings, 1462 01:07:23.744 --> 01:07:26.447 and it's the Brabham Formula One team saying, 1463 01:07:26.547 --> 01:07:28.098 "How would you like to come out? 1464 01:07:28.198 --> 01:07:30.095 We want you to be in Formula One." 1465 01:07:30.195 --> 01:07:31.438 "What?" [CHUCKLES] 1466 01:07:31.538 --> 01:07:33.458 You know, it was like, "Are you serious?" 1467 01:07:37.951 --> 01:07:39.871 Money. 1468 01:07:40.754 --> 01:07:42.651 Yeah, I ended up driving for a team 1469 01:07:42.751 --> 01:07:44.532 that ran out of money. [CHUCKLES] 1470 01:07:44.632 --> 01:07:46.106 ANNOUNCER: This is his first outing 1471 01:07:46.115 --> 01:07:47.566 in a Formula One car. 1472 01:07:47.666 --> 01:07:49.562 And the preparation for his race debut 1473 01:07:49.662 --> 01:07:51.789 in less than two weeks will be rushed. 1474 01:07:51.889 --> 01:07:53.863 You turn up at the workshop, 1475 01:07:53.963 --> 01:07:56.128 and your car is still there with no engine in it. 1476 01:07:56.228 --> 01:07:57.471 "What's happening?" "No one's paid 1477 01:07:57.481 --> 01:07:58.816 for the engines yet." 1478 01:07:58.916 --> 01:08:01.143 "So, are we gonna make the race?" "Don't know." 1479 01:08:01.719 --> 01:08:04.230 YOUNG DAVID: The goal at the moment is to qualify 1480 01:08:04.330 --> 01:08:06.342 and to finish the race. 1481 01:08:06.442 --> 01:08:08.761 LISA: Sadly, it turned out to be a very difficult season, 1482 01:08:08.861 --> 01:08:11.948 and maybe it defined us, maybe it helped us as a couple. 1483 01:08:12.048 --> 01:08:13.984 It certainly proved that we could stick together 1484 01:08:14.084 --> 01:08:15.711 whether it was good, bad or ugly. 1485 01:08:15.811 --> 01:08:19.267 [UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING] 1486 01:08:20.074 --> 01:08:22.570 DAVID: It was just a mess, an absolute mess. 1487 01:08:22.915 --> 01:08:24.773 But then I went into sports car racing, 1488 01:08:24.873 --> 01:08:26.793 and really found my niche. 1489 01:08:32.169 --> 01:08:33.604 YOUNG DAVID: Well, I have to say, 1490 01:08:33.614 --> 01:08:35.102 that was an absolute blast. 1491 01:08:35.202 --> 01:08:37.391 You know, dicing for the lead the whole way. 1492 01:08:38.889 --> 01:08:40.555 [ENGINES REVVING] 1493 01:08:40.655 --> 01:08:43.688 [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 1494 01:08:44.687 --> 01:08:46.737 GRAYSON: We lived a lot nearer to the edge, 1495 01:08:46.837 --> 01:08:49.141 you know, when we stopped evolving. 1496 01:08:50.408 --> 01:08:54.440 I often think about, you know, what we need out of modern life. 1497 01:08:56.206 --> 01:08:59.600 Sportsmen being in control of a motor vehicle, 1498 01:08:59.700 --> 01:09:01.367 you're in the moment. 1499 01:09:01.467 --> 01:09:05.153 It's that kind of dance of physics and mechanics, 1500 01:09:06.267 --> 01:09:09.238 and they carry it out to the nth degree, 1501 01:09:09.338 --> 01:09:13.447 right on the edge of the envelope of their skill. 1502 01:09:13.985 --> 01:09:16.841 And that is happiness. 1503 01:09:16.941 --> 01:09:19.744 It's the Everest of... 1504 01:09:20.743 --> 01:09:22.739 feeling alive, I suppose. 1505 01:09:23.546 --> 01:09:25.926 You just find that they are very selfish. 1506 01:09:26.886 --> 01:09:29.421 He's probably one of the better sportsmen. 1507 01:09:31.264 --> 01:09:34.351 DAVID: There was a lot of similarities between 1508 01:09:34.451 --> 01:09:37.446 me as a kid with my dad, and the kids with myself. 1509 01:09:39.020 --> 01:09:40.725 I was away a lot as well. 1510 01:09:40.825 --> 01:09:42.606 ANNOUNCER: ...the great race at Le Mans 1511 01:09:42.706 --> 01:09:44.526 and there is an Aussie there, David Brabham. 1512 01:09:44.626 --> 01:09:47.329 DAVID: It's just you get into this mindset that you kind of 1513 01:09:47.429 --> 01:09:50.017 forget about other things around you 1514 01:09:50.117 --> 01:09:52.114 and some of those times it was family stuff. 1515 01:09:52.421 --> 01:09:54.625 The most important thing is the next corner. 1516 01:09:54.725 --> 01:09:57.029 You get to the limit, you know, there's another limit. 1517 01:09:57.643 --> 01:10:00.500 Next one, next one, next one. 1518 01:10:00.600 --> 01:10:02.650 And there are things I know. My wife turns around 1519 01:10:02.750 --> 01:10:04.340 and says, "You're so like your father." 1520 01:10:04.440 --> 01:10:06.359 I was like, "Don't." 1521 01:10:08.932 --> 01:10:12.557 BERNIE: I think it's not a case of when a guy starts. 1522 01:10:12.657 --> 01:10:15.859 It's how long they've been having to pack their bags, 1523 01:10:15.959 --> 01:10:17.664 go to their hotel, leave their hotel, 1524 01:10:17.764 --> 01:10:20.951 go to the circuit, go testing, and they get fed up. 1525 01:10:24.599 --> 01:10:26.518 DAVID: Depression plays a role when you stop. 1526 01:10:27.555 --> 01:10:29.475 Of that there is no doubt. 1527 01:10:30.512 --> 01:10:32.432 You know it's the end of your career, 1528 01:10:33.008 --> 01:10:35.235 you know you're not as fast as you were. 1529 01:10:35.849 --> 01:10:39.459 I was shocked at how much of a low I went into. 1530 01:10:40.495 --> 01:10:43.928 They're lost, and I think it's hard for them. 1531 01:10:44.028 --> 01:10:45.502 They're used to people just telling them 1532 01:10:45.602 --> 01:10:47.153 they're the best thing since slice bread. 1533 01:10:47.253 --> 01:10:48.920 They are their successes. 1534 01:10:49.020 --> 01:10:50.302 Everybody wants a piece of you, 1535 01:10:50.402 --> 01:10:52.184 and suddenly the phone doesn't ring. 1536 01:10:52.284 --> 01:10:55.294 [THUNDER RUMBLING] 1537 01:10:55.394 --> 01:11:01.960 [SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING] 1538 01:11:03.150 --> 01:11:04.701 MAN: Tonight, we're welcoming back 1539 01:11:04.801 --> 01:11:07.620 one of the great names in motor racing. 1540 01:11:07.720 --> 01:11:10.653 The continuation of the epic history of a story 1541 01:11:10.753 --> 01:11:13.341 that began with a young Jack Brabham racing 1542 01:11:13.441 --> 01:11:15.952 that midget car out there in the corner. 1543 01:11:16.052 --> 01:11:19.254 And Le Mans victories for David and for Geoff 1544 01:11:19.354 --> 01:11:22.019 help keep the Brabham name in the forefront. 1545 01:11:22.119 --> 01:11:24.500 And that's what we're celebrating here tonight. 1546 01:11:25.152 --> 01:11:27.471 When I was 40, I thought, 1547 01:11:27.571 --> 01:11:29.491 okay, what am I gonna do in ten years' time? 1548 01:11:31.834 --> 01:11:34.037 So I started to think about doing something 1549 01:11:34.137 --> 01:11:35.765 with the Brabham name. 1550 01:11:35.865 --> 01:11:37.839 I had no idea what or how, 1551 01:11:37.939 --> 01:11:39.936 I just felt there was an opportunity. 1552 01:11:40.512 --> 01:11:41.986 GEOFF: I mean, I have to be honest, 1553 01:11:42.086 --> 01:11:44.313 I don't know if Dad was the best businessman. 1554 01:11:47.078 --> 01:11:49.151 Someone in Germany said, "I own Brabham." 1555 01:11:54.220 --> 01:11:56.539 GEOFF: One of the foolish things that my dad did 1556 01:11:56.639 --> 01:11:59.687 was that he lost control of the name. 1557 01:11:59.787 --> 01:12:01.492 "What do you mean? That's our name. 1558 01:12:01.592 --> 01:12:03.642 How can you-- how can you claim that?" 1559 01:12:03.742 --> 01:12:06.407 He knew nothing, had no interest in marketing, 1560 01:12:06.507 --> 01:12:07.905 about selling himself, 1561 01:12:08.005 --> 01:12:09.978 about creating a brand for himself. 1562 01:12:10.078 --> 01:12:11.322 This is a Japanese spanner. 1563 01:12:11.422 --> 01:12:14.279 Not a cheap Asian spanner, but a quality hand tool. 1564 01:12:14.379 --> 01:12:15.891 And it's good. I know it's... 1565 01:12:15.991 --> 01:12:18.080 All those things were just not part of his makeup. 1566 01:12:18.180 --> 01:12:21.843 If it was gonna cost Dad five dollars to renew the name, 1567 01:12:21.943 --> 01:12:23.878 he wouldn't do it. You know, it was... [LAUGHS] 1568 01:12:23.978 --> 01:12:26.028 DAVID: So, my dad and I had a chat about it, 1569 01:12:26.128 --> 01:12:28.048 and we were gonna go to court. 1570 01:12:28.624 --> 01:12:30.828 Dad pulled out at the last minute, 1571 01:12:30.928 --> 01:12:32.848 and said, "You're on your own." 1572 01:12:35.075 --> 01:12:36.742 There was a bit of anger, I guess. 1573 01:12:36.842 --> 01:12:38.815 "How could you do this?" 1574 01:12:38.915 --> 01:12:41.081 It would've made life a little bit more comfortable 1575 01:12:41.181 --> 01:12:43.100 and easier for us and less stressful. 1576 01:12:43.984 --> 01:12:46.418 DAVID: So, do I go into the lion's den 1577 01:12:46.518 --> 01:12:49.144 or do I-- do I walk away, you know? 1578 01:12:49.244 --> 01:12:51.870 And I chose to walk into the lion's den, 1579 01:12:51.970 --> 01:12:54.750 which had felt like a lion's den for seven years. 1580 01:12:54.850 --> 01:12:57.922 LISA: It was financially very crippling for us as a family 1581 01:12:58.268 --> 01:13:01.355 and I think that, in a way, energized David as well, 1582 01:13:01.455 --> 01:13:04.695 It's like "Right. If you don't-- if you're not willing to fight 1583 01:13:04.795 --> 01:13:06.615 to get your name back, I'm gonna do it, 1584 01:13:06.715 --> 01:13:08.036 because I'm not letting it go. 1585 01:13:08.136 --> 01:13:10.493 But then it's mine, basically. 1586 01:13:10.593 --> 01:13:13.719 Any decisions now, once this court case is over, 1587 01:13:13.819 --> 01:13:15.739 subject to winning it, will be down to me." 1588 01:13:17.889 --> 01:13:21.283 DAVID: You've been cocooned for 30 years 1589 01:13:21.383 --> 01:13:25.392 as a professional sportsman, and that's all you know. 1590 01:13:25.492 --> 01:13:27.734 And then, all of a sudden, you go into the real world 1591 01:13:27.834 --> 01:13:29.539 and you don't know how it works. 1592 01:13:29.639 --> 01:13:31.228 So then you're hard on yourself 1593 01:13:31.328 --> 01:13:33.340 because you don't know how it works. 1594 01:13:33.440 --> 01:13:35.759 You know, the amount of times I use Google to figure out 1595 01:13:35.859 --> 01:13:37.526 what someone said, you know, 1596 01:13:37.626 --> 01:13:39.407 because it was, like, what the hell is that? 1597 01:13:39.507 --> 01:13:40.521 I had no idea. 1598 01:13:40.621 --> 01:13:42.441 And then you'd start to lose confidence. 1599 01:13:42.541 --> 01:13:46.112 [CAR ENGINE REVVING] 1600 01:13:47.148 --> 01:13:50.466 DAVID: With perseverance and support from the family, 1601 01:13:50.566 --> 01:13:51.733 I won the court case. 1602 01:13:51.833 --> 01:13:55.381 DAVID: Brabham, one of most iconic names in motor sport, 1603 01:13:55.481 --> 01:13:57.339 is coming back. 1604 01:13:57.439 --> 01:14:00.181 We're coming back with a completely new model 1605 01:14:00.281 --> 01:14:03.314 for the way the race team is funded and run. 1606 01:14:03.852 --> 01:14:06.401 Be one of those to seize this opportunity. 1607 01:14:06.501 --> 01:14:10.110 Come join us and become the heartbeat of our race team. 1608 01:14:12.952 --> 01:14:16.730 DAVID: I took my wife out to the coffee shop, penniless. 1609 01:14:16.830 --> 01:14:20.148 And a beggar came to the table, 1610 01:14:20.248 --> 01:14:22.897 and I thought I've got one pound left in my pocket. 1611 01:14:23.780 --> 01:14:25.830 And I just pulled it out, I gave it to him. 1612 01:14:25.930 --> 01:14:27.443 I said, "There you go, off you go." 1613 01:14:27.543 --> 01:14:28.672 And off he went. 1614 01:14:28.772 --> 01:14:32.243 And I'm staring out the window, going, "What can I do, 1615 01:14:32.343 --> 01:14:34.240 what can I do, what can I do?" 1616 01:14:34.340 --> 01:14:36.528 [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] 1617 01:14:37.450 --> 01:14:40.575 And I ended up selling my Le Mans-winning Rolex. 1618 01:14:40.675 --> 01:14:43.417 And of course we managed to have a very successful 1619 01:14:43.517 --> 01:14:46.450 crowd-funding campaign called Project Brabham. 1620 01:14:46.550 --> 01:14:48.984 DAVID: My father, Sir Jack Brabham, 1621 01:14:49.084 --> 01:14:52.502 started out with little more than talent and self-belief 1622 01:14:53.078 --> 01:14:55.858 and became the only person ever to win 1623 01:14:55.958 --> 01:14:59.567 a Formula One World Championship in a car he constructed. 1624 01:15:01.141 --> 01:15:02.424 DAVID: It was a great success. 1625 01:15:02.524 --> 01:15:04.996 It ultimately ended up being about 300 grand. 1626 01:15:05.096 --> 01:15:07.016 But 300 grand doesn't get you a race team. 1627 01:15:09.858 --> 01:15:11.409 You know, we had a team of people 1628 01:15:11.509 --> 01:15:13.290 trying to work through that, 1629 01:15:13.390 --> 01:15:15.863 and, of course, you've had one injection of cash, 1630 01:15:15.963 --> 01:15:17.553 there's no more money coming in. 1631 01:15:17.653 --> 01:15:19.434 So you know over a period of time 1632 01:15:19.534 --> 01:15:21.469 if you don't bring more cash in, 1633 01:15:21.569 --> 01:15:23.489 you're gonna run out of money. 1634 01:15:27.214 --> 01:15:29.072 Last weekend, David Brabham 1635 01:15:29.172 --> 01:15:31.990 drove his father's famous Cooper-Climax T51 1636 01:15:32.090 --> 01:15:33.603 at Sebring in Florida. 1637 01:15:33.703 --> 01:15:35.984 You know that when he was gonna go, 1638 01:15:36.084 --> 01:15:38.004 it was gonna be big news. 1639 01:15:38.541 --> 01:15:41.167 Driving the Cooper-Climax really gave him a thrill. 1640 01:15:41.267 --> 01:15:42.376 -It meant so much to him. -DAVID: One of those moments 1641 01:15:42.386 --> 01:15:43.471 in time 1642 01:15:43.571 --> 01:15:45.007 you'll never forget where you were 1643 01:15:45.107 --> 01:15:46.582 when you got the call, you know. 1644 01:15:46.682 --> 01:15:48.947 And it was my brother Geoff who called me. 1645 01:15:49.293 --> 01:15:50.959 I received a phone call. 1646 01:15:51.059 --> 01:15:53.455 Dad had passed away, and it was just a huge shock. 1647 01:15:53.555 --> 01:15:55.912 DAVID: He was going to be doing dialysis, 1648 01:15:56.012 --> 01:15:57.141 because of his kidneys. 1649 01:15:57.241 --> 01:16:00.635 So, he was in the routine of having to get up quite early 1650 01:16:00.735 --> 01:16:02.901 to get to the hospital to do the dialysis 1651 01:16:03.001 --> 01:16:04.974 because he couldn't do it at home. 1652 01:16:05.074 --> 01:16:06.664 NURSE: Okay. And now for some local. 1653 01:16:06.764 --> 01:16:07.949 She's come back with a cup of tea, 1654 01:16:07.959 --> 01:16:09.144 and he's gone in bed. 1655 01:16:10.911 --> 01:16:14.113 I went straight into "Right, okay, 1656 01:16:14.213 --> 01:16:16.878 the press are gonna be all over this soon. 1657 01:16:16.978 --> 01:16:18.913 We're gonna have to have a statement, 1658 01:16:19.013 --> 01:16:21.447 I'm gonna have to tell our PR people 1659 01:16:21.547 --> 01:16:22.791 that it's happened." 1660 01:16:22.891 --> 01:16:26.016 And you go-- you kind of go into this mode, 1661 01:16:26.116 --> 01:16:29.856 which, in some way, I think is a way of protecting you 1662 01:16:29.956 --> 01:16:32.145 from getting too involved in the loss. 1663 01:16:33.604 --> 01:16:36.154 GEOFF: I spent more time with him at the end of his life 1664 01:16:36.254 --> 01:16:39.033 than I ever did at the beginning of my life. 1665 01:16:39.133 --> 01:16:42.105 And I had the opportunity to probably get to know him 1666 01:16:42.205 --> 01:16:45.369 a little bit better, you know, just before he died 1667 01:16:45.469 --> 01:16:47.888 than any other time during his life. 1668 01:16:49.770 --> 01:16:52.957 DAVID: Certainly the last ten years of Jack's life, 1669 01:16:53.264 --> 01:16:56.297 our relationship was as good as it ever had been. 1670 01:16:57.948 --> 01:16:59.768 You kind of get older, you get bit wiser. 1671 01:16:59.868 --> 01:17:04.783 You-- It doesn't pay to judge other people's lives. 1672 01:17:05.206 --> 01:17:08.907 So, we actually had a-- had a really good end 1673 01:17:09.007 --> 01:17:10.927 to that relationship. 1674 01:17:26.747 --> 01:17:30.141 MAN: It's hopeless. See, if I couldn't say those words, 1675 01:17:30.241 --> 01:17:32.675 and needed to look to try and do it from memory, 1676 01:17:32.775 --> 01:17:34.695 I'd say something different. 1677 01:17:37.690 --> 01:17:40.893 It's a joy to see the BT brand being honored 1678 01:17:40.993 --> 01:17:44.487 with a new and exciting Brabham BT62. 1679 01:17:44.948 --> 01:17:46.537 I wish David all the best 1680 01:17:46.637 --> 01:17:49.033 as he takes Brabham into the future. 1681 01:17:49.133 --> 01:17:51.567 Well, you've built the model of a future, 1682 01:17:51.667 --> 01:17:53.587 now let's see how it handles. 1683 01:17:55.315 --> 01:17:57.481 DAVID: I got a call from a contact of mine, 1684 01:17:57.581 --> 01:18:00.399 and said, "Look, I know you've always been trying 1685 01:18:00.499 --> 01:18:02.895 to get the Brabham name back out there 1686 01:18:02.995 --> 01:18:04.008 onto the world stage. 1687 01:18:04.108 --> 01:18:07.886 There's a group of people I know that have got a vision as well, 1688 01:18:07.986 --> 01:18:09.945 and I think you guys need to meet." 1689 01:18:12.786 --> 01:18:16.012 So I flew down to Adelaide, and met with them. 1690 01:18:16.511 --> 01:18:18.561 You know, they wanted for me to get involved, 1691 01:18:18.661 --> 01:18:21.771 and could we produce a high-performance car. 1692 01:18:22.923 --> 01:18:24.666 SAM: I just wanted to get Dad's perspective. 1693 01:18:24.766 --> 01:18:26.087 What do you... How have you felt? 1694 01:18:26.187 --> 01:18:29.159 Yes, it's been just a whirlwind, to be honest with you. 1695 01:18:29.259 --> 01:18:32.292 I'm sure after the event, I'll sit back there and go, wow. 1696 01:18:33.214 --> 01:18:34.573 I'm so proud of him. 1697 01:18:34.673 --> 01:18:37.146 I think to see what he's come from, 1698 01:18:37.246 --> 01:18:39.718 from being just a racing driver who's done very well, 1699 01:18:39.818 --> 01:18:41.139 to the trials and tribulations 1700 01:18:41.239 --> 01:18:43.136 of learning about business from scratch. 1701 01:18:43.236 --> 01:18:47.652 ...global reveal of the Brabham BT62. 1702 01:18:52.490 --> 01:18:54.410 The Brabham BT62. 1703 01:18:54.794 --> 01:18:56.959 To come out the other side as a success 1704 01:18:57.059 --> 01:18:58.956 and with something he truly believes in, 1705 01:18:59.056 --> 01:19:00.492 there's something to be said for that, 1706 01:19:00.592 --> 01:19:04.101 and it's a good value and moral to have as I grow up as well. 1707 01:19:04.201 --> 01:19:06.966 [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] 1708 01:19:08.732 --> 01:19:11.666 "He had an enormous amount of grit and determination, 1709 01:19:11.766 --> 01:19:13.686 and never gave up, 1710 01:19:14.838 --> 01:19:17.041 which was demonstrated in 1959, 1711 01:19:17.141 --> 01:19:18.693 when he pushed his car across the line 1712 01:19:18.793 --> 01:19:20.943 to win his first Formula One World Championship." 1713 01:19:21.788 --> 01:19:24.322 Gonna start putting my shoes on, because I gotta head. 1714 01:19:26.434 --> 01:19:28.354 LISA: I'm really proud of David. 1715 01:19:28.738 --> 01:19:31.978 I would say I'm prouder of him for what he's done now, 1716 01:19:32.078 --> 01:19:34.052 post racing. 1717 01:19:34.152 --> 01:19:36.471 Taking on the court case and taking on Brabham, 1718 01:19:36.571 --> 01:19:38.276 and saying, "This has got to change, 1719 01:19:38.376 --> 01:19:40.411 this is what I want, this is my dream." 1720 01:19:40.987 --> 01:19:43.022 I'm far prouder of him doing that 1721 01:19:43.367 --> 01:19:45.379 because he's taken himself 1722 01:19:45.479 --> 01:19:47.399 absolutely out of his comfort zone. 1723 01:19:48.743 --> 01:19:51.715 MAN: As you can see, the car is lurking undercover 1724 01:19:51.815 --> 01:19:54.326 in the center of the magnificent room behind me, 1725 01:19:54.426 --> 01:19:57.014 but we're also surrounded by some amazing cars 1726 01:19:57.114 --> 01:19:59.226 from Brabham's history and heritage. 1727 01:20:01.299 --> 01:20:03.695 We like to think we've done what my father did 1728 01:20:03.795 --> 01:20:05.715 back in 1948, 1729 01:20:06.022 --> 01:20:08.403 backed ourselves and got it done. 1730 01:20:09.632 --> 01:20:12.795 And developed a car that absolutely has the right 1731 01:20:12.895 --> 01:20:16.198 to carry the Brabham name into the future. 1732 01:20:19.845 --> 01:20:23.777 I personally don't think David's actually grieved. 1733 01:20:23.877 --> 01:20:26.028 Realistically, I don't think he's grieved. 1734 01:20:26.680 --> 01:20:29.253 [SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING] 1735 01:20:29.599 --> 01:20:33.262 LISA: And I think part of the drive for this 1736 01:20:33.362 --> 01:20:35.397 does stem from his dad. 1737 01:20:36.587 --> 01:20:39.444 And although their relationship obviously got so much better, 1738 01:20:39.544 --> 01:20:42.692 this, for him, is like "This is what I did." 1739 01:20:46.916 --> 01:20:49.811 But also, I think it's important that David does know 1740 01:20:49.911 --> 01:20:52.177 that he is David. 1741 01:20:52.906 --> 01:20:55.264 And you have to battle with that, feeling part 1742 01:20:55.364 --> 01:20:57.744 of a legacy or whatever you want to call it. 1743 01:20:59.319 --> 01:21:04.157 Because I can't say what's going to have closure for David. 1744 01:21:04.502 --> 01:21:07.152 Whether it is just affirmation that "Yes, I did this," 1745 01:21:07.536 --> 01:21:11.084 or "Stuff you, you told me this, that, and the other 1746 01:21:11.184 --> 01:21:13.910 when I was little, and I've done it." 1747 01:21:14.217 --> 01:21:16.075 I don't know which one it's gonna be. 1748 01:21:16.175 --> 01:21:18.095 I think we're on a 50/50 with that. 1749 01:21:30.383 --> 01:21:34.146 [PIANO MUSIC PLAYING] 1750 01:22:40.958 --> 01:22:44.606 ["BLACK EYED BRUISER" PLAYING] 1751 01:22:53.745 --> 01:22:57.086 ♪ If you see me Walking down the street ♪ 1752 01:22:58.046 --> 01:23:00.580 ♪ Better get out my way ♪ 1753 01:23:01.578 --> 01:23:04.612 ♪ I'm a real king hitter ♪ 1754 01:23:04.919 --> 01:23:07.007 ♪ Always have my say ♪ 1755 01:23:07.107 --> 01:23:10.218 ♪ If you're looking For a happy time ♪ 1756 01:23:11.331 --> 01:23:14.096 ♪ Best you don't come around ♪ 1757 01:23:14.672 --> 01:23:17.590 ♪ Or else You'll get your heavy ♪ 1758 01:23:17.897 --> 01:23:20.700 ♪ Six feet of solid ground ♪ 1759 01:23:21.084 --> 01:23:23.173 ♪ I don't like trouble ♪ 1760 01:23:23.273 --> 01:23:26.729 ♪ But if trouble Is the name of your game ♪ 1761 01:23:27.804 --> 01:23:29.916 ♪ You know where You can find me, boy ♪ 1762 01:23:30.492 --> 01:23:32.719 ♪ Everybody knows my name ♪ 1763 01:23:33.180 --> 01:23:35.829 ♪ I'm the black eyed ♪ 1764 01:23:36.712 --> 01:23:39.031 ♪ The black eyed ♪ 1765 01:23:39.131 --> 01:23:46.043 ♪ The black eyed bruiser ♪