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You kind of get
into this mindset,
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when you’re in competition
for so long
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and you’re doing well...
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There were times
I’d catch myself and go,
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“That’s not who I am.
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You’re so like your father.”
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There’d be something
in the back saying,
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“Is this really who you are?”
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I’m standing now
in the showroom of a car dealer,
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at Greenacre in Sydney.
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And I suppose it’s very much
like any car dealer showroom.
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Except for all these trophies
behind me.
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He is a man who, in his time,
created history.
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Now, he thinks
he’s coming here tonight
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for a sporting interview
with his son.
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And it’s right here
that I’m going to surprise them.
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We are here to honor,
celebrate and give thanks
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for the life
of Sir John Arthur Brabham,
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known as Jack.
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In one way or another,
Sir Jack’s life
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has affected us all.
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From those here
who knew him personally
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and called him Grandpa,
or Dad, or husband...
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to those here who shared
a lifelong friendship with Jack,
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to those of us here who knew him
from a distance
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and marveled
at his many achievements.
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But we’ll also hear
about Sir Jack the man,
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the husband,
father and grandfather.
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What made him tick.
What was really important
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to him.
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Any of you boys been
in a billy-cart derby before?
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Yes!
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Jack was like any boy
of his age,
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obsessed with billy-carts.
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You could either have
a steering wheel
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or you could have a rope.
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And what wheels you got,
well, that was up to the gods.
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What do you say, Noah?
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It was a great race
and the best man did win.
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He left school at fifteen
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to work as an apprentice
in an engineer shop.
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We happened to get bits
and pieces
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and improvised with them.
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Cut and shuck and weld,
and do all sorts of things.
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Yeah, he was from an age
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when you had
a wide variety of skills.
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The kind of
industrial equivalent
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of the hunter-gatherer.
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You could see
there was no doubt,
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he was very earnest
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and he was going to be
a good engineer, good boy.
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Even away
in the little-known interior,
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amongst the primitive natives,
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there are townships
where agents of Hitler
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wait and plan for the downfall
of a country
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that has sheltered them
and given them security.
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The war interrupted
Jack’s sleepy existence,
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tinkering with bikes and cars.
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Every young man of fighting age
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finally had a reason
for adventure.
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...the cause of liberty
and freedom.
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War had started, of course,
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when he was a teenager.
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Jack entered the RAAF
midway through the war.
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He was a mechanic
on RAAF Bowfighters,
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called the "Whispering Death,"
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because twin radial engines
were so quiet
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that they would come in low
and then strafe the Japanese
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before they even knew
what was hitting them.
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But Jack
had missed out on becoming
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a hero on the front line.
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...the victim,
Australia’s manhood.
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He was part
of a generation of young men
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who needed some kind of arena
to prove themselves
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as worthy as the heroes
who had returned home,
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victorious in combat.
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Eerie, isn’t it?
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You know what this
reminds me of? A theater.
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An empty theater right now.
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But it has its audience,
its cast, its drama,
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its comedy,
and sometimes its tragedy too.
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The spectacle here
is a moving play
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on an asphalt stage
with all the props.
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Producers and directors
in the wings,
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the music, extras, comedians,
good guys and bad guys,
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and the stars...
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And it was
on a road trip up north
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that a friend took Jack
to his first-ever Speedway.
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What he would have seen
was motorized chaos.
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There were no roll-cages,
seat belts.
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The helmets were made of cork.
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A lot of blokes didn’t even
bother using goggles.
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The driver died
of severe head injuries.
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Oh, Jack?
Yes, the first time I met him
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was, uh, in '48.
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He, uh... was only a kid then
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and he came up
with the Speedway car.
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Can you imagine
driving down a dirt road
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and then having to turn left
into the corner
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without hitting the brakes,
but with your foot flat
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to the floor at the same time?
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Well, this is what
Speedway drivers did.
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I mean, all you can see now
of a racing driver
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is a little bit of the top
of their head,
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sort of slightly bobbing around.
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In Speedway,
it’s mechanicalized warfare
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of the most purest kind.
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It’s wild, it’s big.
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And that was my biggest
surprise on the first night,
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was every other motor car
was throwing dirt in my face.
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My mum came from a very,
sort of, basic background.
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They met and Jack was racing
in midgets.
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The lady who watched,
waited and worried,
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your wife, Betty.
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What was this bloke's
name again?
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Sorry, Jack, mate,
I won’t let you down.
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In the very early 1950s,
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Jack took his Speedway
racing car
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to a local hill-climb.
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In his little, titchy
self-built Speedway car,
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he blew them all into the weeds.
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Hairpin bends at high speeds
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call for steel wrists
and iron nerves.
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Sport is somewhere
where drive, dedication,
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bravery...
that’s what we celebrate.
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It’s a great course
for the spectators too.
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You know, someone who’s fucking
brilliant at what they do
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and we can cheer them on.
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The organizers
actually disqualified his car
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because it wasn’t fitted
with front wheel brakes...
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Hold everything,
he’s going over!
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...and therefore didn’t
qualify for their purposes.
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Not this time.
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So, Jack responded typically
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by fitting front wheel brakes,
taking it back there
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and doing it again.
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Oh, it’s a Brabham '67.
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It’s a long while since
I’ve seen one of these.
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Ron Tauranac was racing
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RALT open wheelers,
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which he’d built
with his brother
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in their parent’s garage.
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It was clear they saw something
in each other.
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Kindred spirits.
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Well, he was a very good friend
of mine and we got on very well.
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I’ve never been
a very social person either.
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I realize it was a mistake now.
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But I needed someone
to train me.
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Ron and Jack were, in some ways,
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two peas in a pod.
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Neither of them talked much
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but they could just look at
what each other were doing
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- and say, “Wow.”
- Ron designed the cars
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and Dad tested them.
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It was
an incredible partnership.
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Jack had his two-liter
Cooper Bristol.
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And he fitted a bigger engine
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to give it more "oomph"
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and he ended up corresponding
with John and Charles Cooper
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of the Cooper Car Company.
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By the end of 1954,
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Jack had experienced everything
that Speedway
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and Hill-Climb had to offer.
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And while he may not have yet
had his sights set
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on challenging
the European legends
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of motorsport,
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the hobbyist from Hurstville
knew he’d be foolish
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if he didn’t pursue
his clear talent
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behind the wheel.
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And Jack realized
that to progress
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in the motor-racing world,
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he really needed
to be in Britain.
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When he hears
the booming tones of Big Ben,
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no English-speaking visitor
feels a real stranger in London.
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The chimes from Westminster
penetrate to the four corners
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of the globe.
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And Big Ben has become
everyone's town clock.
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When Jack first came
to the UK in 1955,
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he kissed his wife goodbye
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and his child goodbye,
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and found himself surrounded by,
really, a fast-developing hotbed
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of motor-racing development.
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We, as loyal citizens,
must also do our part.
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British motor racing
had been nowhere before the war.
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Silence...
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Conditions were so bad
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that there were
worse shortages here
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than there had ever been
at any time.
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And a number of people
just got so fed up
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with this turgid, gray,
post-war Britain...
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...that effectively
they said, “Oh, to hell with it.
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Let’s go motor racing
and have some fun.”
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The British manner
of going motor racing,
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was to start building
racing cars,
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striving to surpass
the dominant Ferrari
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and Maserati.
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En route to England,
Jack made the pilgrimage
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to Ferrari.
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And they closed the door
in his face.
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He knew he probably appeared
to them like a chancer
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from Down Under,
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but the experience
stung him deeply
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and he loved overtaking Ferrari
for the rest of his career.
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Have you heard from Jack lately?
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Yes, we’ve heard
a couple of times.
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I rang him up after Silverstone
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and we get a letter
occasionally.
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Then comes your first race
at Goodwood.
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But you come
to an embarrassing halt
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three laps from the finish.
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What happened?
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I’m afraid I ran out of petrol.
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But Jack
was quickly progressing.
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In his first year in England,
he secured a seat
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in the Bristol Team at Le Mans,
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where 83 spectators were killed.
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I mean, when we look at sport,
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we’re living vicariously
through the sports stars
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we’re following.
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We want to see a crash
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because we can go through
the whole drama of the crash,
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but we’re not going to die.
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We can enjoy it, you know,
we want to rubberneck it
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and we want to see
that the ragged edge is there.
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Drivers sprint for their cars
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at the start of the Ireland...
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Jack then took Betty to
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the follow-up Sports Car Enduro
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in Northern Ireland.
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Stirling Moss, in a Mercedes,
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is one of the first away
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on the seven-and-a-half-mile
Dunlop Circuit.
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He’d only been
in the UK for six months
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and he was already
wheel to wheel
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with the immortals of racing.
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Caught in a trial,
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Fangio Mercedes,
Hawthorn Jaguar.
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But it had been
a tough race for Jack.
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At this spot,
in a few ghastly seconds,
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two drivers lost their lives.
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He and his co-driver,
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Jim Meyers,
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had tossed a coin to see
who would start.
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His co-driver won the toss
and was incinerated
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within the first few laps.
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I have seen death
too often to believe in death.
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It is not an ending,
but a withdrawal.
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As one who is finishing
a long journey stills the motor,
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turns off the lights,
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steps from the car
and walks up the path
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to the home that awaits him.
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He was fantastic from the start.
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A little wild,
but everyone could see
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that he had it.
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One of the greatest names
in motor racing, from England.
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This Is Your Life
has flown in John Cooper
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of the famous Cooper Cars.
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As John Cooper said to me,
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“We didn't really employ
Jack Brabham.
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He just appeared in the factory
one day and became a fixture."
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He’s a brilliant engineer
and he could set a car up
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for a race.
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He’d just pitch in
and get on with something.
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Is it true that Jack
was also a practical joker?
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Oh, yeah.
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He could make you anything
from a pair of pliers
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to a guided missile.
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He’s just such
a natural engineer.
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He looks at things
and understands so quickly
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what’s wrong with them
or what’s right with them.
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He was one of the only
F1 drivers that probably knew
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everything about the race car,
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from the chassis to the engine
to the setting up.
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He knew all the parts.
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Well, Jack Brabham
was a remarkable man.
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In a funny sort of way,
Jack never looked like
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a racing driver.
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I mean, Stirling Moss
looked like a racing driver,
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Jim Clark looked like
a racing driver.
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But it was fairly obvious,
fairly early on,
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that he was a goer.
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And it wasn’t really
until the Cooper Car Company
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picked him up
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that Jack’s feet really
hit the ground.
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This is a "start/finish" line,
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the beginning and the end.
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Doesn’t make any difference
whether it’s painted on asphalt
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or drawn in dirt with a stick,
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it's become a symbol
of our civilization.
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Sometimes I think
that a line is drawn
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and then some people
get off on a corner
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and figure out what the hell
they’re going to do with it.
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The place is Europe.
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Or it can be Canada,
South Africa, the United States.
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But more than glamorous names
and places,
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it is a state of mind,
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an expression
of the ultimate in racing,
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the Formula One
World Driving Championships.
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The Grand Prix.
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This is the top.
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There’s a strong
British contingent
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at the start
of the Monaco Grand Prix.
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Monaco... very small circuit
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and, in the fifties,
very big cars.
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Moss and Brooks in Van Walls,
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and Collins
and Hawthorn in Ferrari.
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Jack turns up
in this tiny, tiny Cooper...
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Here’s Mike Hawthorn’s Ferrari.
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They’d never heard
of this guy Jack Brabham,
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running third
in the Monaco Grand Prix.
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Everyone expects
a rip-roaring finish.
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The Australian’s
spectacular cornering
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gave the crowds a thrill.
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And he runs out of petrol.
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He pushes it all the way
to the end
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and made a star
out of the driver,
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Jack Brabham.
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He was so lethargic
in so many different ways.
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And then he got
into a racing car.
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Brabham in complete command.
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Everybody was astounded
at his Speedway style.
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Coopers in those days
were world champions
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that took on the might
of these big teams,
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and my father and him
just got on so well.
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Jack became a huge friend
of John Cooper's and vice versa.
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One of his biggest assets,
however, um...
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Oh, I’ve forgotten his name.
Uh, his engineer...
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Ron Tauranac.
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Lovely, lovely,
lovely, lovely guy.
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When I was building
racing cars, in England...
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I would design
the ultimate racing car
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and then backtrack it
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so I could build something
that was just good enough
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to beat the opposition.
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So, what was the best car
that you ever made...
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- in your mind?
- The one I’m going to do next.
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A lot of the modifications
that Jack wanted made
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had been communicated to him
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by his pen pal
back in Australia,
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the engineer Ron Tauranac.
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Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac
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just were like that.
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Ron Tauranac and Jack
made a formidable team.
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By remote control effectively,
from twelve thousand miles away,
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Ron Tauranac was having
very sound engineering ideas
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that he was communicating
to Jack.
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He would come up
with some rough sketches,
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he'd air-mail it
over to Australia,
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Ron would have a look at it,
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be on the phone,
he’d then do all the drawings.
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The drawings would then
come back.
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John was finding some way
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00:18:29,834 --> 00:18:33,574
of smuggling all these
modifications past his dad
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without his dad noticing.
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That was the great thing.
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And he’d make
the rear suspension,
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or the gearbox
and the mounting and everything.
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I mean, it was almost like
a secret society
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with the two of them.
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And it was that, sort of,
cheerful, in-house
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“Let’s do this, let’s try this,”
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00:18:53,833 --> 00:18:56,996
and the sheer enthusiasm
for going racing
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that enabled Cooper
to establish what became known
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00:19:00,437 --> 00:19:02,487
as the "Rear Engine Revolution."
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My name is Stirling Moss
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and I drove all types of cars
in all types of races.
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00:19:18,100 --> 00:19:19,651
What is it that makes a man
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00:19:19,751 --> 00:19:21,802
spend countless hours
making toy racing cars?
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For the modeler is none other
than Stirling Moss,
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possibly the world’s
greatest racing driver.
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Here at his father’s pig farm,
in Turing, Hertfordshire,
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00:19:29,581 --> 00:19:31,977
let’s watch him relaxing
with a miniature track.
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Rival in this grim struggle,
is his wife, Katie.
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You say,
that man is my ultimate goal.
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00:19:38,682 --> 00:19:40,832
Beat him
and I’ve achieved something.
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Well, I wish you every success
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00:19:43,289 --> 00:19:45,608
and please give your family
all the best as well.
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Cheerio.
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The logical favorite
of the 1959 season, Moss,
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no doubt had his eye
on taking out the championship.
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But, on his travels,
Jack had taken a protege
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under this wing for Cooper.
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The young Bruce McLaren.
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For many years,
motor racing has been
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a popular sport in New Zealand,
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00:20:02,796 --> 00:20:04,615
attracting drivers
with a taste for thrills
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and mechanics
with a taste for tinkering.
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00:20:06,751 --> 00:20:08,993
Jack was so impressed
by young Bruce
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that effectively
he became his mentor.
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00:20:13,393 --> 00:20:14,871
After his
wobbly efforts, Bruce decides
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00:20:14,895 --> 00:20:16,327
to stick to car racing.
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He says it's safer.
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00:20:18,040 --> 00:20:21,319
Jack was the person who
made things happen for Bruce.
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And in 1959, he joined Jack
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to start racing regularly
at Grand Prix level.
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The first race was Monaco.
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It was the crown jewel
of the Grand Prix circuit
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and seen as a rite of passage
for drivers.
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00:20:42,115 --> 00:20:45,740
Explaining Monte Carlo
as a racing track is, uh...
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The Monaco Grand Prix
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is known as "The Race
of a Thousand Corners."
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It’s a very,
very difficult circuit.
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You know, 21 corners, 78 laps,
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00:20:55,439 --> 00:20:57,666
constantly coming at you,
so narrow...
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00:20:58,166 --> 00:21:00,431
You were off before
the starting flag even fell.
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00:21:00,892 --> 00:21:02,597
And they're off!
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00:21:02,697 --> 00:21:04,324
A hundred laps
of a two-mile circuit
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through the Monte Carlo streets.
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00:21:05,999 --> 00:21:08,072
A testing race
for cars and drivers.
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00:21:08,495 --> 00:21:11,198
With speed,
you stop having to be conscious.
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00:21:11,298 --> 00:21:13,194
You have to rely on instinct.
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00:21:13,294 --> 00:21:14,811
Just watch
Moss's beautiful control
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as he takes a double bend.
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00:21:16,520 --> 00:21:18,109
You are not driving
at five-tenths.
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You’re driving at nine-tenths
and sometimes ten-tenths.
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Brabham is in second place now.
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00:21:23,547 --> 00:21:25,674
Cooper finally had an engine
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that was as good
as everyone else's.
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00:21:28,039 --> 00:21:30,858
But the radiators
were blowing hot air
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straight onto his feet.
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00:21:32,647 --> 00:21:34,697
He was burning up,
the pedals were red hot.
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He was scared
to touch the brake.
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00:21:36,871 --> 00:21:38,311
Stirling’s Cooper-Climax
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developed transmission trouble.
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00:21:39,943 --> 00:21:41,071
Bad luck.
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00:21:41,171 --> 00:21:42,451
And with Stirling gone,
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00:21:42,515 --> 00:21:45,065
Jack drove faster
than he ever had before.
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00:21:45,165 --> 00:21:46,984
Last lap and
ahead of Tony Brooks' Ferrari
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00:21:47,008 --> 00:21:48,290
was Jack Brabham.
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00:21:48,390 --> 00:21:51,078
Securing
his first Grand Prix race win.
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00:21:51,616 --> 00:21:54,588
This was shaping up
to be a promising season.
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00:22:10,047 --> 00:22:11,813
Jack was someone
who you couldn’t
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00:22:11,837 --> 00:22:13,710
particularly predict.
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00:22:13,810 --> 00:22:16,129
A perfect day,
a great crowd at Aintree
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00:22:16,229 --> 00:22:17,511
for the British Grand Prix.
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00:22:17,611 --> 00:22:18,702
All you would predict
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00:22:18,802 --> 00:22:20,660
is that he would do
the unpredictable.
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00:22:20,760 --> 00:22:23,002
Jack Brabham
was driving a Cooper-Climax.
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00:22:23,102 --> 00:22:24,576
So the British Grand Prix.
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00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:26,688
He wasn’t necessarily
the fastest driver out there,
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00:22:26,788 --> 00:22:28,954
I think everyone agreed
that Stirling Moss was that.
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00:22:29,054 --> 00:22:32,087
Jack certainly was as competent
as any driver out there.
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Stirling Moss, as always,
went out flat-out.
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00:22:36,042 --> 00:22:38,784
Stirling Moss
drove his BRM superbly.
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00:22:38,884 --> 00:22:41,088
Jack started
swinging the back out,
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00:22:41,188 --> 00:22:43,967
for no other reason
than to even up the tire wear.
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00:22:44,067 --> 00:22:45,925
Brabham shot
ahead, determined to keep
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00:22:45,949 --> 00:22:47,869
the number 12 out in front.
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00:22:48,214 --> 00:22:50,188
Stirling Moss
battled into second place.
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00:22:50,288 --> 00:22:52,453
Stirling Moss had to stop
and change his tires.
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00:22:52,553 --> 00:22:54,512
A delay fatal
to his winning chance.
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00:22:54,973 --> 00:22:56,984
Jack kept going
and managed to win the race.
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00:22:57,084 --> 00:22:58,466
Jack Brabham won,
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covering the 225 miles
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at an average
of just under 90 miles an hour.
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00:23:03,458 --> 00:23:05,240
One of the most
extraordinary things
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00:23:05,340 --> 00:23:06,661
about Jack Brabham
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00:23:06,761 --> 00:23:09,733
was how unselfish he could be.
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00:23:09,833 --> 00:23:11,906
Jack, what a great sport
you were.
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00:23:12,405 --> 00:23:13,880
How that time in New Zealand,
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00:23:13,980 --> 00:23:15,492
you lent me
your spare back axle.
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00:23:15,592 --> 00:23:20,738
He supported and mentored people
who would likely become rivals.
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00:23:21,160 --> 00:23:22,558
I’ve known Jack for a long time
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00:23:22,658 --> 00:23:26,152
and he’s helped me,
well, 100 percent in my racing.
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00:23:26,843 --> 00:23:29,085
You win the Monaco
and British Grand Prix.
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00:23:29,185 --> 00:23:31,120
Moss wins the Portuguese
and Italian.
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00:23:31,220 --> 00:23:33,371
Tony Brooks
takes the French and German.
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00:23:33,716 --> 00:23:35,367
Jack was one
of three people who could win
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00:23:35,391 --> 00:23:37,072
the World Championship,
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00:23:37,172 --> 00:23:38,570
and there was
just one race to go.
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And strangely, it was in America
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where they had never
had a Grand Prix before
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00:23:42,010 --> 00:23:43,407
and, really,
it was a second-rate track.
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00:23:43,431 --> 00:23:45,063
The US Grand Prix
attracts the world’s
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best auto-racing drivers.
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00:23:46,848 --> 00:23:50,419
It’s December 12, 1959,
when you line up on the grid.
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00:23:50,727 --> 00:23:53,698
As always, Stirling Moss
went flying out of the gate.
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00:23:53,798 --> 00:23:55,579
The bumpy track
was more than just a rumor.
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00:23:55,603 --> 00:23:56,924
But he over-cooked it.
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00:23:57,024 --> 00:23:59,765
Yeah, it was something funny
with the gearbox.
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00:23:59,865 --> 00:24:01,570
...and Australia’s Jack Brabham
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00:24:01,670 --> 00:24:03,935
and New Zealander Bruce McLaren
in the lead.
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00:24:04,857 --> 00:24:06,255
Jack led most of the race
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00:24:06,355 --> 00:24:08,712
with Bruce McLaren
tucked in behind him.
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00:24:08,812 --> 00:24:10,402
The championship
is in your grasp,
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00:24:10,502 --> 00:24:11,821
and then two corners
from the end,
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00:24:11,845 --> 00:24:13,665
it happens again,
didn’t it, Jack?
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00:24:13,765 --> 00:24:15,124
He ran out of fuel.
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00:24:15,224 --> 00:24:17,544
I run out of petrol.
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00:24:17,644 --> 00:24:19,694
He’s 800 meters from the finish.
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00:24:19,794 --> 00:24:21,921
You decide to finish,
by pushing your car
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00:24:22,021 --> 00:24:23,226
uphill to the finishing line.
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00:24:23,326 --> 00:24:24,954
Bruce was about
to stop behind him
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00:24:25,054 --> 00:24:26,682
and Jack said,
“No, get on with it.
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00:24:26,782 --> 00:24:28,333
If you win,
I win the Championship.”
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00:24:28,433 --> 00:24:31,021
You crossed the line,
surrounded by a police escort
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00:24:31,121 --> 00:24:32,404
and screaming fans.
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00:24:32,504 --> 00:24:34,170
Jack and the little Coopers
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00:24:34,270 --> 00:24:36,282
had beaten Ferrari and Maserati
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00:24:36,382 --> 00:24:38,240
and put them squarely
in their place.
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00:24:38,340 --> 00:24:40,083
First Australian
to be World Champion.
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00:24:40,183 --> 00:24:41,700
The first man
in a rear-engine car
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00:24:41,724 --> 00:24:43,255
to be World Champion.
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00:24:43,562 --> 00:24:45,497
He was a pretty happy boy.
505
00:24:56,502 --> 00:24:59,075
Jack had well and truly arrived.
506
00:24:59,689 --> 00:25:02,761
He’d been anointed
into the "Realm of Champions"
507
00:25:03,376 --> 00:25:07,000
and 1960 was now a chance
to further establish himself
508
00:25:07,100 --> 00:25:09,059
among the heroes of motorsport.
509
00:25:09,443 --> 00:25:12,184
Fangio and Ferrari,
Moss and Farina.
510
00:25:12,284 --> 00:25:14,949
At the end of the day,
to go fast,
511
00:25:15,049 --> 00:25:18,174
you need some serious gonads
between your legs.
512
00:25:20,386 --> 00:25:22,306
Men like drama, don’t they?
513
00:25:24,687 --> 00:25:28,273
You know, they love to do
everything at its most risky.
514
00:25:30,331 --> 00:25:32,727
So, they start the 1960 season
515
00:25:32,827 --> 00:25:34,839
with the 1959 car.
516
00:25:34,939 --> 00:25:37,373
Charlie Cooper,
the old man, says,
517
00:25:37,473 --> 00:25:39,792
“No, I don’t want to spend money
when we’re winning.”
518
00:25:39,892 --> 00:25:41,827
But Jack knew
they’d have to innovate
519
00:25:41,927 --> 00:25:43,939
to stay ahead
of Ferrari and Lotus.
520
00:25:44,039 --> 00:25:46,358
And he and John Cooper,
and Bruce McLaren
521
00:25:46,458 --> 00:25:49,722
all worked on this new car,
the Cooper Lowline.
522
00:25:50,989 --> 00:25:52,579
Jack’s instincts were right,
523
00:25:52,679 --> 00:25:55,689
with Bruce winning Argentina
and Jack picking up a win
524
00:25:55,789 --> 00:25:56,789
at the Dutch Grand Prix.
525
00:25:56,864 --> 00:25:58,285
What are your thoughts
when you’re driving
526
00:25:58,309 --> 00:25:59,798
a fast car like this, Jack?
527
00:25:59,898 --> 00:26:01,065
Well, Vic,
528
00:26:01,165 --> 00:26:03,330
it’s very exciting
driving a motor car like this.
529
00:26:03,430 --> 00:26:05,212
Empirically, what a car is,
530
00:26:05,312 --> 00:26:08,245
it’s a vehicle with an engine
and four wheels
531
00:26:08,345 --> 00:26:10,265
that carries passengers.
532
00:26:10,611 --> 00:26:14,681
But, of course, it's an
incredibly potent symbol.
533
00:26:16,716 --> 00:26:19,496
A car isn’t just this thing
they drive around in.
534
00:26:19,596 --> 00:26:21,224
It is them.
535
00:26:21,324 --> 00:26:22,990
When the helmet does go on,
536
00:26:23,090 --> 00:26:25,140
and you’re
in fighter pilot mode,
537
00:26:25,240 --> 00:26:27,905
and man and machine on the limit
going into combat,
538
00:26:28,005 --> 00:26:29,925
you’re very much
at one with the car.
539
00:26:31,038 --> 00:26:34,241
Spa was a particularly
difficult one.
540
00:26:34,341 --> 00:26:36,813
Stirling Moss
and Jack Brabham, number two.
541
00:26:36,913 --> 00:26:39,655
Ditches, barbed wire fences
beside the track.
542
00:26:39,755 --> 00:26:41,329
Basically, every hazard
you could build
543
00:26:41,353 --> 00:26:42,995
into a racetrack
544
00:26:43,095 --> 00:26:44,263
was there at Spa.
545
00:26:44,363 --> 00:26:46,643
It’s rare for
anything to go wrong so early,
546
00:26:46,743 --> 00:26:48,064
but a triple crash came here.
547
00:26:48,164 --> 00:26:49,907
Two drivers die in the race.
548
00:26:50,007 --> 00:26:51,596
Brabham, now faster than Moss...
549
00:26:51,620 --> 00:26:53,747
And the race kept going
and Jack won.
550
00:26:53,847 --> 00:26:55,551
Brabham, however,
roared away to victory
551
00:26:55,575 --> 00:26:56,575
in the second heat...
552
00:26:56,650 --> 00:26:59,123
Despite the tragedy,
Jack kept his focus razor sharp
553
00:26:59,223 --> 00:27:00,812
for his next outing at Reims.
554
00:27:00,912 --> 00:27:01,891
From the very first lap,
555
00:27:01,915 --> 00:27:02,915
it’s an all-out battle
556
00:27:02,986 --> 00:27:04,574
between the British
and Italian machines.
557
00:27:04,598 --> 00:27:05,918
With the lead exchanging
558
00:27:05,942 --> 00:27:08,300
in impossibly tight
slipstream battles.
559
00:27:08,400 --> 00:27:10,219
Brabham’s Cooper
and Phil Hill’s Ferrari
560
00:27:10,243 --> 00:27:11,448
battle desperately to get a...
561
00:27:11,548 --> 00:27:14,582
For men, the traffic
is the last Serengeti.
562
00:27:15,350 --> 00:27:17,592
It’s where they’re in conflict
with others.
563
00:27:17,692 --> 00:27:19,589
They’re chasing...
564
00:27:19,689 --> 00:27:21,071
They’re having to negotiate
through the forest
565
00:27:21,095 --> 00:27:22,492
of the streets.
566
00:27:23,298 --> 00:27:27,215
You know, so all the kind
of ancient, primal, instincts,
567
00:27:27,752 --> 00:27:29,265
you can play it out in a car.
568
00:27:29,365 --> 00:27:31,445
It’s Jack Brabham
who gets the upper hand,
569
00:27:31,515 --> 00:27:34,395
streaking ahead for his third
consecutive Grand Prix victory.
570
00:27:34,741 --> 00:27:37,521
And after Reims,
Jack made it five in a row...
571
00:27:37,621 --> 00:27:39,440
Brabham’s
Cooper-Climax well in front.
572
00:27:39,464 --> 00:27:40,731
...with wins at
the British and Portuguese
573
00:27:40,755 --> 00:27:42,013
Grand Prix.
574
00:27:42,113 --> 00:27:44,532
One more
for an overcrowded mantelpiece.
575
00:27:44,955 --> 00:27:46,007
He’d done it.
576
00:27:46,107 --> 00:27:48,487
Back to back
World Championships.
577
00:27:49,179 --> 00:27:51,114
Moss, Hawthorn, Collins...
578
00:27:51,214 --> 00:27:52,596
Jack, you faced
an impressive rollcall
579
00:27:52,620 --> 00:27:54,017
of racing greats.
580
00:28:07,763 --> 00:28:09,775
In 1961 he branched out.
581
00:28:09,875 --> 00:28:11,910
Ron Tauranac joined him
in England.
582
00:28:12,486 --> 00:28:16,418
He gave me a thousand pounds
583
00:28:16,518 --> 00:28:21,064
to move the family to England
584
00:28:21,164 --> 00:28:23,022
for a year’s trial.
585
00:28:23,122 --> 00:28:26,632
Although he’d won back to back
World Championships
586
00:28:26,732 --> 00:28:28,398
in Cooper cars,
587
00:28:28,498 --> 00:28:31,470
some rival car constructors
588
00:28:31,570 --> 00:28:36,462
were actually building
more sophisticated cars,
589
00:28:36,562 --> 00:28:38,635
with greater
performance potential
590
00:28:39,058 --> 00:28:41,761
than Cooper, really,
could shake a stick at.
591
00:28:41,861 --> 00:28:44,025
...to design each
year as perfect and advanced
592
00:28:44,049 --> 00:28:46,238
a piece of engineering
as science can devise.
593
00:28:46,584 --> 00:28:49,517
I just always concerned
with what I was doing
594
00:28:49,617 --> 00:28:53,994
and staying ahead
of the terrible opposition.
595
00:28:54,417 --> 00:28:56,736
This is where we build
our racing cars.
596
00:28:56,836 --> 00:28:59,462
And there are literally
hundreds of component parts
597
00:28:59,562 --> 00:29:01,190
that go to building
a racing car.
598
00:29:01,290 --> 00:29:03,148
It’s a brutal comparison
599
00:29:03,248 --> 00:29:05,567
but Cooper have been described
600
00:29:05,667 --> 00:29:09,868
as a bunch of blacksmiths
meeting in Chapman
601
00:29:09,968 --> 00:29:11,942
and Lotus a bunch
of technologists.
602
00:29:12,042 --> 00:29:15,459
May your success continue,
and good luck for 1961.
603
00:29:15,766 --> 00:29:17,686
Thank you, Vic.
604
00:29:27,209 --> 00:29:29,259
I’ve been up to Frisco
for the Sprints,
605
00:29:29,359 --> 00:29:31,256
out to Charlotte
to see the Stocks,
606
00:29:31,356 --> 00:29:32,715
into the Glen
for the Grand Prix,
607
00:29:32,815 --> 00:29:35,364
Indy for the Drag
and for the "Big One."
608
00:29:35,464 --> 00:29:37,169
I paid 200 million dollars
609
00:29:37,269 --> 00:29:38,705
to sit with 40 million fans.
610
00:29:38,805 --> 00:29:40,433
I’ve eaten twenty tons
of hot dogs
611
00:29:40,533 --> 00:29:42,468
and drunk a Rose Bowl
full of pop.
612
00:29:42,568 --> 00:29:45,448
I’m this year’s spectator,
"Race Fan USA."
613
00:29:45,909 --> 00:29:47,253
When the balloons
go up beside the track
614
00:29:47,277 --> 00:29:48,650
at Indianapolis,
615
00:29:48,750 --> 00:29:49,994
spectators know it’s time
616
00:29:50,094 --> 00:29:52,221
for the start of the world’s
most chancy motor race.
617
00:29:52,321 --> 00:29:54,986
In 1961, at Indianapolis,
618
00:29:55,086 --> 00:29:58,826
Jack went there with
his Formula One Cooper-Climax,
619
00:29:58,926 --> 00:30:02,973
which absolutely outraged
and upset the ultra-conservative
620
00:30:03,073 --> 00:30:05,392
American Speedway fraternity.
621
00:30:05,492 --> 00:30:09,039
Brabham, what is the nature
of the fuel used?
622
00:30:09,139 --> 00:30:10,541
The Indy regulators came
623
00:30:10,565 --> 00:30:11,996
to watch the comically small car
624
00:30:12,096 --> 00:30:13,647
with its engine
in the wrong spot.
625
00:30:13,747 --> 00:30:15,260
They had the engine in the back,
626
00:30:15,360 --> 00:30:17,487
which was complete
anathema to them.
627
00:30:17,587 --> 00:30:19,753
But, the second thing,
it was painted green!
628
00:30:19,853 --> 00:30:23,539
And at Indianapolis,
green cars were killer cars.
629
00:30:24,076 --> 00:30:26,664
'Cause they’re a threat
to my territory,
630
00:30:26,764 --> 00:30:28,008
to my very being
631
00:30:28,108 --> 00:30:29,659
that is my shiny,
632
00:30:29,759 --> 00:30:32,524
you know, phallus
that I’m driving along in.
633
00:30:33,484 --> 00:30:35,803
The big thrill
wasn’t long in coming.
634
00:30:35,903 --> 00:30:37,416
A six-car pileup.
635
00:30:37,516 --> 00:30:39,182
But within a couple of years,
636
00:30:39,282 --> 00:30:42,407
all Indy 500 cars
were rear-engined.
637
00:30:42,507 --> 00:30:45,710
He showed
that Formula One technology
638
00:30:45,810 --> 00:30:48,075
could work at Indianapolis.
639
00:30:49,649 --> 00:30:51,369
After Jack won
the World Championship,
640
00:30:51,416 --> 00:30:54,234
he told me he had an invite
to go and see Mr. Ferrari.
641
00:30:54,334 --> 00:30:56,116
So he flew down to Italy
642
00:30:56,216 --> 00:30:58,174
and was interviewed
by Mr. Ferrari.
643
00:30:59,940 --> 00:31:01,990
And he said
he had quite a good offer.
644
00:31:02,090 --> 00:31:04,087
But he went home
and thought about it.
645
00:31:04,510 --> 00:31:05,677
He said, "I turned it down."
646
00:31:05,777 --> 00:31:07,121
He said, “Because,
the only reason that Colin
647
00:31:07,145 --> 00:31:08,480
and Bruce and myself
648
00:31:08,580 --> 00:31:10,246
went racing was to beat Ferrari,
649
00:31:10,346 --> 00:31:12,051
and I couldn’t
possibly join them.”
650
00:31:12,151 --> 00:31:14,508
Enzo Ferrari
once told John Cooper
651
00:31:14,608 --> 00:31:17,081
that he'd never build
a rear-engine race car.
652
00:31:17,181 --> 00:31:20,230
But, in '61, he did
and it was a killer.
653
00:31:20,330 --> 00:31:22,956
During the heart of that season,
654
00:31:23,056 --> 00:31:24,837
Ferrari just ran riot
655
00:31:24,937 --> 00:31:28,623
with their V6-engined,
shark-nosed cars.
656
00:31:30,121 --> 00:31:31,749
Right, cue him.
657
00:31:31,849 --> 00:31:33,058
So, I’ve flown back from Rome
to bring you
658
00:31:33,082 --> 00:31:34,283
these special pictures
659
00:31:34,383 --> 00:31:36,433
direct from the racetrack
at Monza.
660
00:31:36,533 --> 00:31:37,815
One of the few highlights
661
00:31:37,839 --> 00:31:40,105
was when Jack
was leading at Monza.
662
00:31:40,488 --> 00:31:41,694
Congratulations, Phil.
663
00:31:41,794 --> 00:31:43,307
What sort of a race
did you have?
664
00:31:43,407 --> 00:31:45,111
Peter, this was
a real tough one.
665
00:31:45,211 --> 00:31:47,876
But as on so many
occasions that season,
666
00:31:47,976 --> 00:31:49,105
he broke down.
667
00:31:49,205 --> 00:31:51,562
This Monza track
has got some steep bankings.
668
00:31:51,662 --> 00:31:53,828
It’s got fast straights,
hairpins, the lot.
669
00:31:53,928 --> 00:31:54,869
Then in the second lap,
670
00:31:54,893 --> 00:31:55,671
approaching the curve
671
00:31:55,771 --> 00:31:57,591
on the inner section
of the road circuit,
672
00:31:57,691 --> 00:31:58,935
it happened.
673
00:31:59,035 --> 00:32:00,317
Hold it. Hold it, Mike.
674
00:32:00,417 --> 00:32:02,851
We’ve got the pictures
on "three" in the wrong order.
675
00:32:02,951 --> 00:32:04,886
Can you check them?
It should be Phil Hill first,
676
00:32:04,986 --> 00:32:06,691
then the banking,
then the checkered...
677
00:32:10,324 --> 00:32:11,514
Von Trips' Ferrari,
678
00:32:11,538 --> 00:32:12,720
after touching Clark's Lotus,
679
00:32:12,820 --> 00:32:14,678
had crashed through a fence
and rebounded.
680
00:32:14,778 --> 00:32:16,521
Wolfgang von Trips lay dead
681
00:32:16,621 --> 00:32:18,825
and death came to 13 spectators
682
00:32:18,925 --> 00:32:20,845
in this appalling crash.
683
00:32:27,833 --> 00:32:29,039
All right. Magi, sorry.
684
00:32:29,139 --> 00:32:31,059
Just give me a minute,
I'll fix it.
685
00:32:31,750 --> 00:32:33,670
Jolly good. Let's go again then.
686
00:32:36,934 --> 00:32:38,546
Do you think the combination
687
00:32:38,570 --> 00:32:40,213
of Brabham and Cooper
688
00:32:40,313 --> 00:32:41,825
is going to bring you
689
00:32:41,925 --> 00:32:44,229
the World Championship
hat-trick this year?
690
00:32:44,997 --> 00:32:47,157
It was the Ferraris
who triumphed once more.
691
00:32:47,455 --> 00:32:50,043
And after back
to back championship wins,
692
00:32:50,143 --> 00:32:52,615
Jack had well and truly
fallen back to earth.
693
00:32:52,715 --> 00:32:55,726
By the end of the 1961 season,
694
00:32:55,826 --> 00:32:57,492
Jack fully appreciated
695
00:32:57,592 --> 00:33:00,548
that many of the things
that he wanted to do
696
00:33:00,932 --> 00:33:02,599
would be impossible
697
00:33:02,699 --> 00:33:06,731
against the increasing
conservatism of Charlie Cooper.
698
00:33:07,191 --> 00:33:10,970
When I went to England,
I worked for Jack's company
699
00:33:11,070 --> 00:33:13,427
during normal working hours.
700
00:33:13,527 --> 00:33:14,656
And overnight,
701
00:33:14,756 --> 00:33:17,728
I spent the time designing
our first Formula One car.
702
00:33:17,828 --> 00:33:20,070
They were building
a Formula Junior car
703
00:33:20,170 --> 00:33:21,721
for a private customer.
704
00:33:21,821 --> 00:33:23,411
Which was really mine,
705
00:33:23,511 --> 00:33:26,214
I wasn't paid for that at all.
I just drew it in a night.
706
00:33:26,314 --> 00:33:29,247
And the opportunity was there
to go independent.
707
00:33:38,255 --> 00:33:39,975
Surrounded
by English countryside
708
00:33:40,060 --> 00:33:42,149
is the racing car factory
of Jack Brabham.
709
00:33:42,249 --> 00:33:44,990
Well, I came over,
principally, in the first place,
710
00:33:45,090 --> 00:33:46,373
to go motor racing.
711
00:33:46,473 --> 00:33:50,366
And after motor racing
for quite a few years,
712
00:33:50,466 --> 00:33:53,591
the interest
in the mechanical side of it
713
00:33:53,691 --> 00:33:55,319
has always been very great.
714
00:33:55,419 --> 00:33:59,451
And the obvious answer was to
eventually build our own cars.
715
00:33:59,873 --> 00:34:01,885
A friend of theirs pointed out
716
00:34:01,985 --> 00:34:07,300
that the French pronunciation
of MRD, merde,
717
00:34:07,400 --> 00:34:09,319
was very rude.
718
00:34:09,780 --> 00:34:12,445
In French, MRD means merde,
719
00:34:12,545 --> 00:34:14,465
which is covered all over
in shit.
720
00:34:15,502 --> 00:34:18,934
...and said, you know,
you have the perfect name.
721
00:34:19,034 --> 00:34:21,507
The perfect marketing brand.
722
00:34:30,477 --> 00:34:34,370
No. Why would it be
Brabham Racing Developments
723
00:34:34,470 --> 00:34:37,596
when it... when I was
designing the cars
724
00:34:37,696 --> 00:34:40,460
and was responsible
for the build of them?
725
00:34:44,530 --> 00:34:47,310
You know, we should have had
a neutral name,
726
00:34:47,410 --> 00:34:49,330
or I should have been
involved in it.
727
00:34:50,559 --> 00:34:52,379
I think in the end, I mean,
728
00:34:52,479 --> 00:34:54,299
both of them wanted to win
729
00:34:54,399 --> 00:34:57,432
and were doing whatever they
thought was necessary to win.
730
00:34:57,816 --> 00:34:59,636
Motor Racing Developments
731
00:34:59,736 --> 00:35:02,670
thereafter produced
Brabham racing cars.
732
00:35:02,770 --> 00:35:06,356
And Brabham racing cars
became the thing to have
733
00:35:06,456 --> 00:35:09,274
for Formula Two racing,
Formula Three racing,
734
00:35:09,374 --> 00:35:12,830
and went on to the most
tremendous customer success.
735
00:35:18,052 --> 00:35:20,601
When you're married
to Jackie Oliver,
736
00:35:20,701 --> 00:35:22,944
who's a pretty quick man
in the Grand Prix Circuit,
737
00:35:23,044 --> 00:35:25,900
do you ever talk
about the danger at all?
738
00:35:26,000 --> 00:35:28,051
We don't really talk
about it to our husbands
739
00:35:28,151 --> 00:35:30,470
because we know they're
gonna go on racing.
740
00:35:30,570 --> 00:35:33,657
You have to let a boy or a man
do want they wanna do.
741
00:35:33,757 --> 00:35:36,306
One wife next to me started
screaming and yelling,
742
00:35:36,406 --> 00:35:38,457
so I sat there and I got scared.
743
00:35:38,557 --> 00:35:39,992
I never was afraid before.
744
00:35:40,092 --> 00:35:42,604
The best thing one can do
is make sure you're really,
745
00:35:42,704 --> 00:35:44,623
well, financially secure.
746
00:35:46,812 --> 00:35:49,039
I don't think it was easy
for my mom.
747
00:35:53,263 --> 00:35:57,195
If I look back and think,
the thing that really shaped her
748
00:35:57,295 --> 00:36:00,843
was the danger of
Grand Prix racing in the '60s.
749
00:36:00,943 --> 00:36:02,647
She was very nervous.
750
00:36:02,747 --> 00:36:05,489
Because men are stupid enough
to take risks.
751
00:36:05,589 --> 00:36:07,509
You know,
men are addicted to risks.
752
00:36:08,545 --> 00:36:10,542
Women are sensible, you know.
753
00:36:10,849 --> 00:36:13,422
They don't, uh, wanna die.
754
00:36:14,574 --> 00:36:17,392
Betty was the
most nervous person
755
00:36:17,492 --> 00:36:18,583
in the team.
756
00:36:18,683 --> 00:36:21,946
I mean, she was
a nervous wreck, really.
757
00:36:23,290 --> 00:36:25,379
She was tough.
758
00:36:25,479 --> 00:36:27,399
Wow, was she tough.
759
00:36:27,706 --> 00:36:30,371
I don't know how she went
and watched Jack every weekend.
760
00:36:30,471 --> 00:36:32,905
To go there and pretty much
every weekend
761
00:36:33,005 --> 00:36:34,925
someone was gonna die
762
00:36:35,501 --> 00:36:37,958
made them a different
breed of people.
763
00:36:38,266 --> 00:36:41,952
They went to a lot of funerals.
Very good friends of theirs.
764
00:36:42,451 --> 00:36:43,680
You know,
from within the paddock,
765
00:36:43,704 --> 00:36:44,947
all the drivers.
766
00:36:45,331 --> 00:36:48,763
And I think that probably
shaped her more than anything,
767
00:36:48,863 --> 00:36:51,566
was that fear of Jack
going out there
768
00:36:51,666 --> 00:36:53,586
and not coming back again.
769
00:36:54,278 --> 00:36:55,583
But I think that's probably
770
00:36:55,607 --> 00:36:56,942
what was the bottom line,
771
00:36:57,042 --> 00:36:59,284
was that she now had three kids,
and, you know,
772
00:36:59,384 --> 00:37:00,897
the last thing you wanna do
773
00:37:00,997 --> 00:37:03,071
is have her husband
get wiped out in a race car.
774
00:37:04,568 --> 00:37:05,851
- Ready to go?
- Yes.
775
00:37:05,951 --> 00:37:08,270
Okay. Let me...
Let me do my thing, you...
776
00:37:08,370 --> 00:37:09,652
We try it my way,
777
00:37:09,752 --> 00:37:11,672
- then you say no, okay?
- But...
778
00:37:14,936 --> 00:37:16,932
Well, of course, uh,
779
00:37:17,316 --> 00:37:21,348
I have to say the duo of...
780
00:37:21,771 --> 00:37:24,842
Ron and Jack
was very interesting.
781
00:37:25,687 --> 00:37:28,467
Ron always came across
as someone
782
00:37:28,567 --> 00:37:31,063
who was preoccupied,
783
00:37:31,831 --> 00:37:33,228
intense.
784
00:37:33,328 --> 00:37:36,339
Jack came across as somebody
785
00:37:36,439 --> 00:37:38,834
who was always preoccupied,
786
00:37:38,934 --> 00:37:40,370
intense.
787
00:37:40,470 --> 00:37:42,367
- Okay? Guys.
- That was good.
788
00:37:42,467 --> 00:37:44,863
Okay. Guys, guys, guys,
you gotta be professional.
789
00:37:44,963 --> 00:37:47,781
Okay? And that means
not frigging walking around...
790
00:37:47,881 --> 00:37:49,052
- Yes.
- ...distracting me
791
00:37:49,076 --> 00:37:50,277
when I'm trying to focus.
792
00:37:50,377 --> 00:37:52,274
You know? So, you know...
793
00:37:52,374 --> 00:37:53,579
All right.
794
00:37:53,679 --> 00:37:56,866
They were both
pretty grumpy guys.
795
00:37:57,442 --> 00:37:58,917
And they were very conscious
796
00:37:59,017 --> 00:38:02,933
of making every minute
of every day pay.
797
00:38:06,428 --> 00:38:08,862
You are not the flavor
of this month this moment,
798
00:38:08,962 --> 00:38:10,858
clunking down there.
799
00:38:10,958 --> 00:38:12,855
He didn't suffer fools gladly.
800
00:38:12,955 --> 00:38:16,181
In fact,
we all respected them for it.
801
00:38:16,488 --> 00:38:18,500
You know?
That was a funny thing.
802
00:38:18,600 --> 00:38:22,478
Two senior people
screwing up my TV.
803
00:38:23,207 --> 00:38:25,680
Take your shoes off.
804
00:38:31,386 --> 00:38:33,360
Thirteenth, Monaco Grand Prix,
805
00:38:33,460 --> 00:38:35,625
they want you one day earlier
this year, Mr. Brabham.
806
00:38:35,725 --> 00:38:38,121
Roger phoned,
can he catch a lift?
807
00:38:38,221 --> 00:38:40,195
Seventeenth,
you're due at Zandvoort.
808
00:38:40,295 --> 00:38:42,498
On the 25th, you present a
Formula Three car
809
00:38:42,598 --> 00:38:45,225
to the best pupil driver
for BP in London.
810
00:38:45,325 --> 00:38:46,485
You'll have to make a speech,
811
00:38:46,553 --> 00:38:48,297
witty and not more
than 10 minutes.
812
00:38:48,397 --> 00:38:51,445
Tickets on reservation
for your flight to Australia...
813
00:38:51,545 --> 00:38:54,479
The whole Brabham
Formula One program
814
00:38:54,579 --> 00:38:59,724
was formalized
when Dan Gurney joined in 1963.
815
00:39:00,914 --> 00:39:03,410
Still out in front,
Dan "The Man" Gurney.
816
00:39:04,562 --> 00:39:06,843
Early into the 1963 program,
817
00:39:06,943 --> 00:39:08,632
Jack's hopes of
another championship
818
00:39:08,656 --> 00:39:10,337
were already looking unlikely.
819
00:39:10,437 --> 00:39:12,026
Behind, number six,
Jack Brabham.
820
00:39:12,050 --> 00:39:15,214
They would lead races,
and the engine would fail.
821
00:39:15,314 --> 00:39:17,402
...with fuel trouble
five laps from the end.
822
00:39:17,426 --> 00:39:19,345
Very bad luck.
823
00:39:19,921 --> 00:39:21,534
The days of being
single-mindedly focused
824
00:39:21,558 --> 00:39:23,162
on the track
825
00:39:23,262 --> 00:39:25,758
must have seemed like
a luxury now to Jack.
826
00:39:26,065 --> 00:39:28,331
He had cars to build
and payroll to meet.
827
00:39:28,715 --> 00:39:31,149
He was racing against, you know,
the Jimmy Clarks,
828
00:39:31,249 --> 00:39:32,915
you know, the Stirling Mosses,
829
00:39:33,015 --> 00:39:34,605
but, you know, unlike them,
830
00:39:34,705 --> 00:39:37,677
he had other business ventures
going on as well.
831
00:39:37,777 --> 00:39:40,288
He was also being
outclassed in the field
832
00:39:40,388 --> 00:39:41,388
by Dan Gurney.
833
00:39:41,424 --> 00:39:43,704
Dan Gurney, driving
a Brabham-Climax, number 9,
834
00:39:43,728 --> 00:39:45,894
was on his tail
until engine trouble.
835
00:39:45,994 --> 00:39:47,890
By the end of 1963,
836
00:39:47,990 --> 00:39:49,196
Dan was starting to sense
837
00:39:49,296 --> 00:39:52,114
that Jack didn't want to spend
the money needed to compete
838
00:39:52,214 --> 00:39:54,111
with the likes of Lotus
and Ferrari.
839
00:39:54,211 --> 00:39:56,530
Jim Clark wins
at over 107 miles an hour.
840
00:39:56,630 --> 00:39:59,487
Jack Brabham,
he was very tight with money.
841
00:39:59,587 --> 00:40:01,790
Because his interest was in...
842
00:40:01,890 --> 00:40:03,941
the cost of the car,
the maintenance.
843
00:40:04,041 --> 00:40:06,844
They'd work long hours,
late nights and early mornings.
844
00:40:07,650 --> 00:40:09,700
Here, Jack has gathered
a team of experts
845
00:40:09,800 --> 00:40:11,989
to bring a car first over
the finishing line.
846
00:40:13,333 --> 00:40:15,230
Finally, it all came together
847
00:40:15,330 --> 00:40:16,881
at the French Grand Prix.
848
00:40:16,981 --> 00:40:18,981
Jim Clark and
Dan Gurney in hot pursuit.
849
00:40:19,016 --> 00:40:21,642
Gurney had bagged
a win for Brabham Racing.
850
00:40:21,742 --> 00:40:24,023
And that was
the Brabham marque's
851
00:40:24,123 --> 00:40:26,139
first
World Championship-qualifying
852
00:40:26,163 --> 00:40:28,193
Grand Prix success.
853
00:40:28,654 --> 00:40:30,819
But Jack still
couldn't break his drought.
854
00:40:30,919 --> 00:40:33,162
Jack Brabham,
racing ace and designer too,
855
00:40:33,262 --> 00:40:34,506
in a Brabham, of course.
856
00:40:34,606 --> 00:40:37,616
It had been four years
since he had won an F1 race
857
00:40:37,716 --> 00:40:40,112
and the aura around him
as a champion
858
00:40:40,212 --> 00:40:41,801
was quickly fading.
859
00:40:41,901 --> 00:40:44,374
In the third lap,
Dan Gurney was in real trouble.
860
00:40:44,474 --> 00:40:46,332
Gurney's patience
was wearing thin
861
00:40:46,432 --> 00:40:48,367
with Jack's reluctance
to spend money.
862
00:40:48,467 --> 00:40:49,864
He'd just broken the lap record
863
00:40:49,888 --> 00:40:51,246
when he had to drive into
the pitch
864
00:40:51,270 --> 00:40:53,190
with his transistor ignition
on fire.
865
00:40:53,498 --> 00:40:56,277
Things with Ron were
also starting to fall apart.
866
00:40:56,377 --> 00:40:59,080
All the journalists
believed that he was responsible
867
00:40:59,180 --> 00:41:01,446
for the design
and build of the cars.
868
00:41:02,444 --> 00:41:04,648
Which was my responsibility,
actually.
869
00:41:04,748 --> 00:41:06,495
Gurney won again
at the season-ending
870
00:41:06,519 --> 00:41:08,334
Mexico Grand Prix,
871
00:41:08,434 --> 00:41:10,369
but it seemed too little,
too late.
872
00:41:10,469 --> 00:41:12,366
Hello, I'm Jack Brabham.
873
00:41:12,466 --> 00:41:14,747
Dan was now
the only one winning anything.
874
00:41:14,847 --> 00:41:17,611
But no one seemed to be
celebrating his achievements.
875
00:41:18,111 --> 00:41:20,238
They didn't celebrate at all,
never.
876
00:41:20,338 --> 00:41:22,849
They really were
like a bunch of Trappist monks.
877
00:41:22,949 --> 00:41:25,713
I never saw Jack really
let his hair down at any time.
878
00:41:26,059 --> 00:41:28,340
He wasn't really that
sort of bloke.
879
00:41:28,440 --> 00:41:31,373
He probably just went away
quietly and counted his money,
880
00:41:31,473 --> 00:41:33,777
and took it to Switzerland...
881
00:41:37,809 --> 00:41:40,550
Flew to Monaco
with Jack in 1968.
882
00:41:40,650 --> 00:41:43,123
We flew to Nice via Geneva
883
00:41:43,223 --> 00:41:45,949
and Jack disappeared
for a couple of hours.
884
00:41:46,986 --> 00:41:48,806
I reckon he'd been to the bank,
885
00:41:48,906 --> 00:41:50,826
put it like that.
886
00:41:55,242 --> 00:41:57,315
I mean, everybody cheats
in Formula One.
887
00:41:59,734 --> 00:42:01,669
Did you ever cheat?
888
00:42:01,769 --> 00:42:03,689
I... Never caught.
889
00:42:04,035 --> 00:42:06,431
"It's only wrong if you get
caught," that's what Jack said.
890
00:42:06,531 --> 00:42:08,451
"It's only wrong
if you get caught."
891
00:42:11,177 --> 00:42:13,097
Did Brabham ever cheat?
892
00:42:15,708 --> 00:42:17,628
Never caught.
893
00:42:24,002 --> 00:42:26,344
The wrong word is "cheat."
894
00:42:27,419 --> 00:42:30,107
People do whatever they can
to get an advantage.
895
00:42:34,792 --> 00:42:36,995
That's the only way
you will achieve
896
00:42:37,095 --> 00:42:39,092
maximum results,
897
00:42:40,475 --> 00:42:43,792
if you're really running
on the edge of the rules.
898
00:42:43,892 --> 00:42:45,789
And on the track, boy,
did Black Jack,
899
00:42:45,889 --> 00:42:47,939
the most competitive of all
Australian sportsmen,
900
00:42:48,039 --> 00:42:49,244
mean business.
901
00:42:49,344 --> 00:42:51,587
Yet such was the skill level
of them all in those days
902
00:42:51,687 --> 00:42:55,719
that Black Jack was involved
in very, very few accidents.
903
00:42:56,295 --> 00:42:59,251
Some will tell us
that he just used to cause them.
904
00:43:01,555 --> 00:43:03,721
'Cause another thing
you've got to appreciate
905
00:43:03,821 --> 00:43:08,428
was that Black Jack, or Blackie,
could be as mean as rat shit.
906
00:43:10,348 --> 00:43:12,437
I've had more marks
in my crash helmet
907
00:43:12,537 --> 00:43:15,225
from Jack Brabham
than I have in any accident.
908
00:43:16,185 --> 00:43:18,849
If it came
to elbows-out driving,
909
00:43:18,949 --> 00:43:20,869
Jack was the man.
910
00:43:21,791 --> 00:43:23,918
He knew exactly when to just
911
00:43:24,018 --> 00:43:26,207
go off the racetrack a tiny bit.
912
00:43:27,474 --> 00:43:31,214
Rivals retired their cars
with holes through the radiator.
913
00:43:31,314 --> 00:43:34,385
And there was always
stones and gravel which...
914
00:43:36,190 --> 00:43:38,663
He winked at me
when he told me that. He said,
915
00:43:38,763 --> 00:43:41,312
"You know what I used to do,
don't you, Tony?"
916
00:43:41,412 --> 00:43:44,576
I don't believe it.
Even if it's true.
917
00:43:50,205 --> 00:43:52,640
The checkered flag
down across your bonnet,
918
00:43:52,740 --> 00:43:54,675
and no cars ahead of you.
919
00:43:54,775 --> 00:43:57,731
That's the best sight
in the world to a racing driver.
920
00:44:00,112 --> 00:44:04,082
I mean sports,
what's glorious about sports
921
00:44:04,182 --> 00:44:06,371
is that it's ritualized war.
922
00:44:07,715 --> 00:44:10,188
Jack was desperately
looking for solutions
923
00:44:10,288 --> 00:44:12,668
to get back on top for 1965.
924
00:44:13,091 --> 00:44:16,623
We still want
that gritty, reckless,
925
00:44:17,238 --> 00:44:20,310
stoic hero.
926
00:44:21,769 --> 00:44:26,069
Because then that... he's kind
of carrying with him...
927
00:44:26,760 --> 00:44:29,602
that bit in us that we wish
we could be like that.
928
00:44:31,675 --> 00:44:33,672
Jack didn't particularly
like the Coventry Climax
929
00:44:33,696 --> 00:44:35,722
V-8 engine
930
00:44:35,822 --> 00:44:37,450
to which they were wedded.
931
00:44:37,550 --> 00:44:39,793
So he turned
his attention to Formula Two
932
00:44:39,893 --> 00:44:41,021
and enlisted Honda.
933
00:44:41,121 --> 00:44:43,709
Yes, well, Honda had sent
an engine over
934
00:44:43,809 --> 00:44:47,741
for Formula Two
with four young engineers.
935
00:44:47,841 --> 00:44:51,158
Everything was
started from zero,
936
00:44:51,258 --> 00:44:53,178
so we had to learn everything.
937
00:44:53,793 --> 00:44:56,995
The Brabham Honda
outing was yet another failure.
938
00:44:57,095 --> 00:44:59,760
They ran the engine up for us,
939
00:44:59,860 --> 00:45:01,871
but it was no good
for a race car
940
00:45:01,971 --> 00:45:04,352
because we didn't have
that many revs available.
941
00:45:05,120 --> 00:45:07,040
He irritated so much.
942
00:45:07,424 --> 00:45:10,434
And 1965
was another one of those years,
943
00:45:10,534 --> 00:45:12,608
with not a single win
for the team.
944
00:45:13,376 --> 00:45:15,580
Dan was very much
like my dad, you know.
945
00:45:15,680 --> 00:45:18,037
He wanted to start his own team.
946
00:45:18,137 --> 00:45:20,878
Gurney finally left
at the end of the season
947
00:45:20,978 --> 00:45:22,491
to start his own team.
948
00:45:22,591 --> 00:45:25,548
And Jack's old protege
Bruce McLaren did the same,
949
00:45:25,893 --> 00:45:28,097
leaving Cooper's
to start McLaren Racing.
950
00:45:28,197 --> 00:45:30,632
Fangio was 47 when he retired
951
00:45:30,732 --> 00:45:33,473
with five Grand Prix
World titles behind him.
952
00:45:33,573 --> 00:45:35,531
Have you any
set retirement plans?
953
00:45:36,222 --> 00:45:38,964
I think there must have
been some comments in the press
954
00:45:39,064 --> 00:45:41,345
about the age of Jack
as a driver.
955
00:45:41,445 --> 00:45:42,727
You are 40 now,
956
00:45:42,827 --> 00:45:44,627
and I suppose you must have
given some thought
957
00:45:44,670 --> 00:45:47,258
to how long you can keep going,
and stay at the front.
958
00:45:47,358 --> 00:45:50,407
And his wife, Betty,
used that as an argument
959
00:45:50,507 --> 00:45:51,866
to stop racing
960
00:45:51,966 --> 00:45:54,438
and to have more influence
on the children
961
00:45:54,538 --> 00:45:56,458
and get back to Australia.
962
00:45:59,837 --> 00:46:01,757
Didn't seem to bother him.
963
00:46:02,717 --> 00:46:04,637
He wanted to race.
964
00:46:05,213 --> 00:46:06,649
That was it.
965
00:46:06,749 --> 00:46:08,377
I haven't got
any different plans,
966
00:46:08,477 --> 00:46:11,203
but I certainly don't intend
to retire at the moment.
967
00:46:12,317 --> 00:46:14,137
Well, yeah,
I think the mythologizing...
968
00:46:14,237 --> 00:46:15,557
I mean, I think we all...
969
00:46:15,657 --> 00:46:17,577
We are human beings,
we love a story.
970
00:46:18,576 --> 00:46:20,587
You know? That's what...
That's central
971
00:46:20,687 --> 00:46:22,162
to how we construct ourselves,
972
00:46:22,262 --> 00:46:23,275
is narrative.
973
00:46:23,375 --> 00:46:26,908
It's the most powerful and most
ancient form of culture.
974
00:46:27,676 --> 00:46:30,441
And so, you need heroes,
you got to have them.
975
00:46:31,209 --> 00:46:33,720
And if Jack could
beat out Gurney and McLaren
976
00:46:33,820 --> 00:46:36,369
in the following season,
and become the first driver
977
00:46:36,469 --> 00:46:38,888
to win a championship
in a car bearing his own name,
978
00:46:39,387 --> 00:46:42,728
he knew he'd not only
become a hero again,
979
00:46:43,150 --> 00:46:45,070
he'd become a legend.
980
00:46:58,433 --> 00:47:02,503
For 1966
and the new three-liter formula.
981
00:47:03,041 --> 00:47:06,435
Coventry Climax announced
that they would not be building
982
00:47:06,535 --> 00:47:07,855
a suitable engine.
983
00:47:07,955 --> 00:47:11,027
So we had to produce
a Formula One car in a hurry.
984
00:47:12,448 --> 00:47:15,305
And few people
were willing to supply them
985
00:47:15,405 --> 00:47:17,977
because they'd be making
a rod for their own backs.
986
00:47:21,625 --> 00:47:24,866
Jack was racing in America
and he heard about these.
987
00:47:24,966 --> 00:47:27,477
He saw opportunity
in 1966, I guess,
988
00:47:27,577 --> 00:47:29,497
that wasn't obvious
to anybody else.
989
00:47:29,804 --> 00:47:31,701
The new engine that he chose
990
00:47:31,801 --> 00:47:35,540
was an American prototype
production V-8.
991
00:47:35,640 --> 00:47:37,460
He told Repco about them.
992
00:47:37,560 --> 00:47:40,916
Repco agreed to support Jack.
993
00:47:41,016 --> 00:47:43,143
Phil Irving
was charged with drawing
994
00:47:43,243 --> 00:47:45,524
the Repco Brabham race engine.
995
00:47:45,624 --> 00:47:47,597
Drivers and teams were delighted
996
00:47:47,697 --> 00:47:50,017
because they thought it would be
not very competitive.
997
00:47:50,117 --> 00:47:53,357
No Formula One engine had
ever been built in Australia.
998
00:47:53,457 --> 00:47:55,124
Who would have gone to Australia
999
00:47:55,224 --> 00:47:57,850
to get a motor-racing engine
for Formula One?
1000
00:47:57,950 --> 00:47:59,999
Betty cooked me a steak
for lunch at home with Jack
1001
00:48:00,023 --> 00:48:01,382
and we shook hands on a deal.
1002
00:48:01,482 --> 00:48:04,531
And the idea was that I was
gonna work on the Repco engines.
1003
00:48:08,893 --> 00:48:11,788
And Ron Tauranac engineered that
1004
00:48:11,888 --> 00:48:15,613
into BT19 and BT20 cars.
1005
00:48:16,150 --> 00:48:17,548
There was no test bed,
1006
00:48:17,648 --> 00:48:19,314
so they would just get
put in the cars
1007
00:48:19,414 --> 00:48:22,501
and Jack and Danny had to
drive them a bit slowly
1008
00:48:22,601 --> 00:48:23,615
for the first few laps.
1009
00:48:23,715 --> 00:48:25,343
They were very practical...
1010
00:48:25,443 --> 00:48:27,877
The Repco engine
was constantly failing.
1011
00:48:27,977 --> 00:48:30,642
...and they had
all the reliability.
1012
00:48:30,742 --> 00:48:32,715
One particular practice
we went to,
1013
00:48:32,815 --> 00:48:34,735
one of the valve seats fell out.
1014
00:48:35,157 --> 00:48:38,705
And this
Australian-developed engine
1015
00:48:38,805 --> 00:48:42,008
was regarded initially
as very much the underdog
1016
00:48:42,108 --> 00:48:44,027
in Formula One competition.
1017
00:48:45,947 --> 00:48:48,420
They've only got
literally one engine.
1018
00:48:48,520 --> 00:48:50,709
It breaks down
in its first race.
1019
00:48:53,051 --> 00:48:54,971
It breaks down
in its second race.
1020
00:48:59,079 --> 00:49:02,474
There was a moment there
before we went to Reims
1021
00:49:02,574 --> 00:49:03,995
where Jack said,
"Do you think we should
1022
00:49:04,019 --> 00:49:05,454
carry on with this thing?"
1023
00:49:06,682 --> 00:49:09,654
They had my dad,
Bruce McLaren, and Dan Gurney
1024
00:49:09,754 --> 00:49:11,382
all building their own cars,
1025
00:49:11,482 --> 00:49:14,416
taking on the might
of Lotus and Ferrari.
1026
00:49:14,516 --> 00:49:16,835
Jack Brabham
approving the Brabham Repco...
1027
00:49:16,935 --> 00:49:19,254
We both said, no, no,
we gotta keep going.
1028
00:49:19,354 --> 00:49:20,755
Jack Brabham's car is proving
1029
00:49:20,779 --> 00:49:22,195
to be greater than anticipated.
1030
00:49:22,925 --> 00:49:24,399
It beats the Ferraris.
1031
00:49:24,499 --> 00:49:25,979
It was victory for Brabham.
1032
00:49:26,073 --> 00:49:28,239
His average speed was also
the fastest ever seen...
1033
00:49:28,339 --> 00:49:30,965
Hang on, this engine that no one
is taking seriously,
1034
00:49:31,065 --> 00:49:32,693
it has beaten the Ferraris.
1035
00:49:32,793 --> 00:49:34,920
It's also
the first time that a driver
1036
00:49:35,020 --> 00:49:36,379
has ever won a world title event
1037
00:49:36,479 --> 00:49:38,399
in a car
of his own construction.
1038
00:49:39,013 --> 00:49:41,333
And all of a sudden,
we were King Kong
1039
00:49:41,433 --> 00:49:43,252
and away we went.
1040
00:49:43,352 --> 00:49:46,017
Jack Brabham
driving a Repco Brabham.
1041
00:49:46,117 --> 00:49:49,819
And they just won race
after race, after race,
1042
00:49:49,919 --> 00:49:52,299
driven by Jack Brabham
and by Denny Hulme.
1043
00:49:52,760 --> 00:49:54,350
Well, I didn't think about it.
1044
00:49:54,450 --> 00:49:56,154
We just carried on
with the next one.
1045
00:49:56,254 --> 00:49:58,381
The fastest
European race since the war.
1046
00:49:58,481 --> 00:50:00,670
A very proud
moment in all of our lives.
1047
00:50:01,400 --> 00:50:04,563
They were very,
very competent people
1048
00:50:04,663 --> 00:50:08,403
producing beautifully
well-made machines.
1049
00:50:10,423 --> 00:50:11,705
Is that rain?
1050
00:50:25,744 --> 00:50:28,063
Jack has won
three races in a row.
1051
00:50:28,163 --> 00:50:29,945
With an engine
people were laughing at
1052
00:50:30,045 --> 00:50:31,596
at the start of the year.
1053
00:50:31,696 --> 00:50:33,404
If that's not enough,
he's got a Honda engine
1054
00:50:33,428 --> 00:50:35,128
in his Formula Two car.
1055
00:50:35,228 --> 00:50:37,547
Jack Brabham, powered
by a Japanese Honda engine.
1056
00:50:37,571 --> 00:50:39,044
He's worked
really closely with them,
1057
00:50:39,068 --> 00:50:40,548
and suddenly
they have a world beater.
1058
00:50:41,641 --> 00:50:43,461
Jack Brabham and his teammate
1059
00:50:43,561 --> 00:50:45,496
are one-two in the overall
points standing.
1060
00:50:45,596 --> 00:50:47,531
So after all those dark years,
1061
00:50:47,631 --> 00:50:49,335
they are so close
to winning the championship.
1062
00:50:49,359 --> 00:50:51,716
Brabham in his Repco
Brabham number 3.
1063
00:50:51,816 --> 00:50:55,671
The Australian won the drivers'
world title in '59 and '60.
1064
00:50:55,771 --> 00:50:57,476
Nürburgring is known
as the Green Hell.
1065
00:50:57,576 --> 00:50:58,858
The German Grand Prix,
1066
00:50:58,958 --> 00:51:01,930
fourteen miles of ups and downs
over the grueling Nürburgring.
1067
00:51:02,030 --> 00:51:03,696
The most difficult,
most challenging,
1068
00:51:03,796 --> 00:51:07,982
most prestigious, most historic
racetrack in the world.
1069
00:51:08,327 --> 00:51:10,147
You can go off into the forest
1070
00:51:10,247 --> 00:51:12,167
and they're not gonna find you
for weeks.
1071
00:51:13,089 --> 00:51:14,563
And it's raining.
1072
00:51:14,663 --> 00:51:16,329
It is extremely dangerous.
1073
00:51:16,429 --> 00:51:17,981
Fastest lap in practice,
1074
00:51:18,081 --> 00:51:20,169
number one,
world champion Jim Clark.
1075
00:51:20,269 --> 00:51:22,780
This was
the biggest race of Jack's life.
1076
00:51:24,186 --> 00:51:25,507
To win at Nürburg,
1077
00:51:25,607 --> 00:51:27,834
guaranteeing motorsport
immortality.
1078
00:51:28,141 --> 00:51:30,521
No sooner has the race started
then there's tragedy.
1079
00:51:32,979 --> 00:51:35,820
Jacky Ickx
and John Taylor collide.
1080
00:51:36,128 --> 00:51:37,986
So, we have a car on fire.
1081
00:51:38,086 --> 00:51:40,098
John Taylor is in a Brabham car.
1082
00:51:40,198 --> 00:51:41,331
Brabham still leading,
1083
00:51:41,355 --> 00:51:42,555
driving a Repco Brabham.
1084
00:51:42,655 --> 00:51:45,128
It was an era
where drivers would drive
1085
00:51:45,228 --> 00:51:46,933
straight past a burning car
1086
00:51:47,033 --> 00:51:49,697
where someone literally
was being immolated.
1087
00:51:49,797 --> 00:51:51,501
If there was an accident,
they drove harder,
1088
00:51:51,525 --> 00:51:53,445
because they knew others
would be backing off.
1089
00:51:53,868 --> 00:51:55,250
On Brabham's tail,
John Surtees' Cooper-Maserati
1090
00:51:55,274 --> 00:51:56,647
number seven.
1091
00:51:56,747 --> 00:51:58,067
Most teams would've collapsed
1092
00:51:58,091 --> 00:52:00,718
during that long season
of lack of success.
1093
00:52:00,818 --> 00:52:02,296
The Australian
won the drivers' world title
1094
00:52:02,320 --> 00:52:03,751
in '59 and '60.
1095
00:52:03,851 --> 00:52:05,901
And they are
a hair's breadth away
1096
00:52:06,001 --> 00:52:07,401
from winning
the World Championship,
1097
00:52:07,499 --> 00:52:09,459
which would make Jack
a three-time world champion.
1098
00:52:09,534 --> 00:52:11,531
Brabham, on his way to victory.
1099
00:52:19,786 --> 00:52:21,837
Jack Brabham, ex-world champ,
1100
00:52:21,937 --> 00:52:23,603
proves he's not too old at forty
1101
00:52:23,703 --> 00:52:26,275
by this superbly confident win.
1102
00:52:29,962 --> 00:52:31,767
And for the very first time
1103
00:52:31,791 --> 00:52:33,610
in motor racing history,
1104
00:52:33,917 --> 00:52:37,426
we had a world champion driver
1105
00:52:37,526 --> 00:52:40,076
who'd won the World Championship
1106
00:52:40,176 --> 00:52:42,326
in a car bearing his own name.
1107
00:52:51,004 --> 00:52:55,535
...a state funeral
for a three-time world champion.
1108
00:52:55,957 --> 00:52:58,007
Motor racing great
Sir Jack Brabham
1109
00:52:58,107 --> 00:53:01,540
has been remembered as a legend,
on and off the track,
1110
00:53:01,640 --> 00:53:03,383
at his state funeral today.
1111
00:53:03,483 --> 00:53:06,109
His life could have
come straight from the pages
1112
00:53:06,209 --> 00:53:08,644
of the Boys' Own adventure
books of his day.
1113
00:53:08,744 --> 00:53:12,061
Jack passed away
on Monday morning, May the 19th,
1114
00:53:12,161 --> 00:53:14,173
in their home
here on the Gold Coast.
1115
00:53:14,273 --> 00:53:16,193
He was 88 years of age.
1116
00:53:18,958 --> 00:53:20,394
Right.
1117
00:53:20,494 --> 00:53:23,427
Um, uh...
1118
00:53:23,527 --> 00:53:27,943
I don't think any, uh,
world champion... no, no sport...
1119
00:53:28,327 --> 00:53:31,567
I don't think any multiple
world champion sportsman
1120
00:53:31,667 --> 00:53:34,470
ever achieves what they achieve
1121
00:53:34,893 --> 00:53:38,195
without inflicting
some collateral family damage.
1122
00:53:42,572 --> 00:53:44,492
Oh, I think, um...
1123
00:53:45,452 --> 00:53:47,042
you know, Jack was old school.
1124
00:53:47,142 --> 00:53:49,062
Um...
1125
00:53:50,022 --> 00:53:52,187
In some way, a likable rouge.
1126
00:53:52,287 --> 00:53:54,337
In many ways...
1127
00:53:54,437 --> 00:53:57,241
he and I had a lot of conflict.
1128
00:53:59,544 --> 00:54:01,364
There were certain things
where he went,
1129
00:54:01,464 --> 00:54:03,553
"You know what, Jack?
You're out of order."
1130
00:54:03,653 --> 00:54:05,765
You know? I fell out with him
several times.
1131
00:54:09,605 --> 00:54:13,153
I think my dad ended up
sacrificing quite a lot,
1132
00:54:13,253 --> 00:54:15,787
particularly, I think,
from a family point of view.
1133
00:54:16,286 --> 00:54:17,760
He went over on his own
1134
00:54:17,860 --> 00:54:21,139
and left his family behind
for a year at a time,
1135
00:54:21,239 --> 00:54:22,483
but I would never do that.
1136
00:54:22,583 --> 00:54:25,785
He didn't have time
at that particular point
1137
00:54:25,885 --> 00:54:29,687
to really take too much interest
in what we were doing.
1138
00:54:30,992 --> 00:54:32,928
He was either at a racetrack
1139
00:54:33,028 --> 00:54:34,947
or he was in his workshop.
1140
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:38,826
And he'd come home to eat,
sleep, and off he'd go again.
1141
00:54:40,554 --> 00:54:43,333
"He had an enormous amount
of grit and determination,
1142
00:54:43,433 --> 00:54:45,353
and never gave up,
1143
00:54:45,699 --> 00:54:47,672
which was demonstrated in 1959,
1144
00:54:47,772 --> 00:54:49,515
when he pushed his car
across the line
1145
00:54:49,615 --> 00:54:52,342
to win his first Formula One
World Championship."
1146
00:54:54,415 --> 00:54:55,966
I've lost the train
of thought now.
1147
00:54:56,066 --> 00:54:58,078
Go back to the question.
1148
00:54:58,178 --> 00:55:01,035
Tonight,
we are celebrating 70 years
1149
00:55:01,135 --> 00:55:03,631
of amazing history and heritage,
1150
00:55:04,092 --> 00:55:05,950
and paying homage to it.
1151
00:55:14,113 --> 00:55:15,625
Jack goes down the main straight
1152
00:55:15,649 --> 00:55:17,661
at close to 140 miles an hour.
1153
00:55:17,761 --> 00:55:19,543
Jim Clark barely three seconds
behind him.
1154
00:55:19,643 --> 00:55:22,423
I was one when my dad won
his third World Championship,
1155
00:55:22,523 --> 00:55:24,227
and he retired when I was five.
1156
00:55:24,327 --> 00:55:27,837
So I don't remember any
of his '60s period of racing.
1157
00:55:27,937 --> 00:55:29,717
It's another one of those
many happy occasions...
1158
00:55:29,741 --> 00:55:31,753
I was surrounded
by lots of trophies,
1159
00:55:31,853 --> 00:55:33,827
but they were objects.
I really didn't understand
1160
00:55:33,927 --> 00:55:36,284
what they were, and yeah,
you know, Dad was away a lot.
1161
00:55:36,384 --> 00:55:39,241
He retired, although
at the end of 1970,
1162
00:55:39,341 --> 00:55:41,046
we went back to Australia,
1163
00:55:41,146 --> 00:55:44,617
he started up three businesses,
and he started up racing again
1164
00:55:44,717 --> 00:55:46,652
in touring cars.
1165
00:55:46,752 --> 00:55:49,593
What he was doing
required that he spend
1166
00:55:50,169 --> 00:55:53,087
eighteen hours a day
doing what he was doing.
1167
00:55:54,585 --> 00:55:57,979
So, he was always in and out
of the house.
1168
00:55:58,079 --> 00:56:01,074
More out than in,
to be honest with you.
1169
00:56:01,996 --> 00:56:05,505
Yeah, I mean, I just got on
and did my own thing,
1170
00:56:05,605 --> 00:56:07,679
and was quite happy doing that.
1171
00:56:08,408 --> 00:56:10,075
But anyone I met,
1172
00:56:10,175 --> 00:56:11,495
the first thing out
of their mouth,
1173
00:56:11,519 --> 00:56:12,799
"Oh, that's Jack Brabham's son."
1174
00:56:12,862 --> 00:56:14,342
You know,
"That's Jack Brabham's son."
1175
00:56:14,398 --> 00:56:18,853
And that's the bit I found
difficult to cope with.
1176
00:56:19,621 --> 00:56:21,440
In terms of "Who am I?"
1177
00:56:21,540 --> 00:56:23,460
If I'm Jack's son, who am I?
1178
00:56:24,766 --> 00:56:27,354
So, when I look back,
I think, yeah, he was away,
1179
00:56:27,454 --> 00:56:29,719
but did it affect me?
It's difficult to say.
1180
00:56:30,372 --> 00:56:32,154
Racing writers have called him
1181
00:56:32,254 --> 00:56:33,574
"The Shy Champion."
1182
00:56:33,674 --> 00:56:35,993
I've been an author for decades
1183
00:56:36,093 --> 00:56:38,144
and I've probably now read
every single word
1184
00:56:38,244 --> 00:56:40,025
ever written about Jack Brabham.
1185
00:56:40,125 --> 00:56:42,213
The quietly spoken
gentleman of the circuits...
1186
00:56:42,237 --> 00:56:45,132
And yet, he's almost
impossible to read.
1187
00:56:45,232 --> 00:56:47,056
The name of Brabham ranks
1188
00:56:47,080 --> 00:56:48,972
now with Fangio and Ferrari.
1189
00:56:49,072 --> 00:56:50,469
It's so easy to talk about
1190
00:56:50,569 --> 00:56:52,504
the extraordinary things
that he's done,
1191
00:56:52,604 --> 00:56:54,578
but in terms of
getting into his mind,
1192
00:56:54,678 --> 00:56:57,404
that's a much, much more
difficult proposition.
1193
00:57:03,164 --> 00:57:04,677
So, Ron, where you're drawing
1194
00:57:04,777 --> 00:57:08,363
is between your face
and this lens, okay?
1195
00:57:08,463 --> 00:57:10,128
- My face?
- This area around here, please,
1196
00:57:10,152 --> 00:57:11,704
Oh, because
I can't see the lens.
1197
00:57:11,804 --> 00:57:13,431
That's right.
If you just work around here,
1198
00:57:13,455 --> 00:57:14,852
- we'll be all right.
- Yeah. So...
1199
00:57:14,952 --> 00:57:16,552
Around about here,
where my hand is.
1200
00:57:16,603 --> 00:57:17,770
- Yeah, okay.
- Okay?
1201
00:57:17,870 --> 00:57:19,790
I don't know what the hell
to draw.
1202
00:57:23,861 --> 00:57:25,988
Ugh, it all slips down. So...
1203
00:57:26,088 --> 00:57:27,648
That's all right,
that's all right.
1204
00:57:27,700 --> 00:57:28,740
Remember, it's hand-drawn.
1205
00:57:28,814 --> 00:57:31,195
Yeah, but it's just
a mess though.
1206
00:57:31,847 --> 00:57:34,627
See, this is really...
Just slips down
1207
00:57:34,727 --> 00:57:36,816
as soon as I put
any pressure on it.
1208
00:57:36,916 --> 00:57:39,235
Well, thankfully,
you're not designing the next...
1209
00:57:39,335 --> 00:57:41,600
the next big Formula One
revolution.
1210
00:57:43,098 --> 00:57:45,018
Unfortunately.
1211
00:57:51,315 --> 00:57:55,900
I don't really know
quite how truly friendly
1212
00:57:56,000 --> 00:57:58,304
Ron and Jack Brabham were.
1213
00:57:59,264 --> 00:58:02,619
He took ideas from me,
and so forth,
1214
00:58:02,719 --> 00:58:06,866
and I got equipment from him
and help on machining from him.
1215
00:58:07,366 --> 00:58:09,109
So, it was very much
a mutual respect?
1216
00:58:09,209 --> 00:58:11,129
That's right.
1217
00:58:11,858 --> 00:58:14,392
He had more respect for money
than I did.
1218
00:58:17,464 --> 00:58:19,899
Ron Tauranac, I always recall
1219
00:58:19,999 --> 00:58:24,468
as one of the most competitive
race engineers I've ever met.
1220
00:58:24,568 --> 00:58:26,772
It was very difficult to decide
who was actually
1221
00:58:26,872 --> 00:58:28,922
steering the ship
because, obviously,
1222
00:58:29,022 --> 00:58:33,299
Jack had very firm views
on how to set up a car,
1223
00:58:33,399 --> 00:58:37,024
and they would spend
endless amounts of time
1224
00:58:37,124 --> 00:58:42,001
debating this or, you could say,
even arguing about it.
1225
00:58:44,458 --> 00:58:46,432
Another myth
is that people talk about
1226
00:58:46,532 --> 00:58:48,966
genes being passed down
the family.
1227
00:58:49,066 --> 00:58:51,078
Uh, that's not true.
1228
00:58:51,178 --> 00:58:53,098
Racing is a disease.
1229
00:58:56,054 --> 00:58:58,297
Growing up on the farm,
I loved to speed.
1230
00:58:58,397 --> 00:59:00,639
You know, I would drive
every vehicle,
1231
00:59:00,739 --> 00:59:04,694
every motorbike, every tractor,
flat out, sideways,
1232
00:59:05,116 --> 00:59:07,766
always trying to find
that extra limit.
1233
00:59:08,918 --> 00:59:11,889
Went to a workshop,
saw a go-kart sitting there,
1234
00:59:11,989 --> 00:59:14,232
never seen a racing go-kart
in my life.
1235
00:59:14,332 --> 00:59:16,252
Didn't even know
people raced them.
1236
00:59:16,597 --> 00:59:19,262
The mechanic was there,
working on the kart,
1237
00:59:19,362 --> 00:59:22,564
and I said, "Do people race
these things, do they?"
1238
00:59:22,664 --> 00:59:26,082
And he sort of looked at me
and said, "Are you adopted?"
1239
00:59:29,077 --> 00:59:31,549
So, when I jumped in the
go-kart for the very first time,
1240
00:59:31,649 --> 00:59:34,068
and Dad's watching me,
he's just gone,
1241
00:59:34,798 --> 00:59:36,718
"Okay, where the hell's
that come from?"
1242
00:59:38,062 --> 00:59:40,534
You know,
when I drove race cars,
1243
00:59:40,634 --> 00:59:42,554
the speed meant nothing.
1244
00:59:43,476 --> 00:59:46,294
It was competing against
somebody else and beating them.
1245
00:59:46,394 --> 00:59:49,236
That was the thrill
that I got out of racing.
1246
00:59:49,696 --> 00:59:51,516
He's a veteran anyway, so,
1247
00:59:51,616 --> 00:59:53,283
you can see the lines, you know?
1248
00:59:54,688 --> 00:59:57,199
David is the third
of Sir Jack Brabham's sons
1249
00:59:57,299 --> 01:00:00,064
to follow the former
Formula One world champion.
1250
01:00:00,755 --> 01:00:03,520
I think the turning point
for me was...
1251
01:00:03,827 --> 01:00:06,799
I did a race
and my dad came to it,
1252
01:00:06,899 --> 01:00:08,911
and I won by, like, half a lap,
1253
01:00:09,011 --> 01:00:14,194
and that was the time he went,
"This kid could go a long way."
1254
01:00:14,809 --> 01:00:18,149
So, do you think... did you
aspire to be like your brothers?
1255
01:00:18,879 --> 01:00:20,622
I aspired to beat them.
1256
01:00:27,250 --> 01:00:29,070
On November 29, 1970,
1257
01:00:29,170 --> 01:00:31,565
the racing greats of the world
gather in your honor
1258
01:00:31,665 --> 01:00:33,562
for the Brands Hatch
farewell meeting.
1259
01:00:33,662 --> 01:00:36,173
The next evening, they gather
again for a farewell banquet
1260
01:00:36,273 --> 01:00:38,654
given in your honor
at the Savoy Hotel in London.
1261
01:00:39,192 --> 01:00:40,704
Well, Betty, the Ford Company
1262
01:00:40,804 --> 01:00:42,778
presents you
with a ball and chain,
1263
01:00:42,878 --> 01:00:44,659
and it's inscribed,
1264
01:00:44,759 --> 01:00:48,345
"Presented to Betty Brabham
on 25th November, 1970,
1265
01:00:48,445 --> 01:00:49,805
who won in the end."
1266
01:00:49,905 --> 01:00:51,724
And here's your reply.
1267
01:00:51,824 --> 01:00:53,568
I've been asked what I did
1268
01:00:53,668 --> 01:00:55,741
to make Jack
give up motor racing.
1269
01:00:56,240 --> 01:00:58,444
It was quite simple really.
I said,
1270
01:00:58,544 --> 01:01:02,207
"Jack, motor racing or divorce?"
1271
01:01:04,649 --> 01:01:07,352
When my dad retired in 1970,
1272
01:01:07,452 --> 01:01:10,540
he retired and just sold
everything out to Ron.
1273
01:01:10,640 --> 01:01:12,767
I'm surprised that he did that.
1274
01:01:12,867 --> 01:01:16,146
It was a little bit, I think,
out of character for him
1275
01:01:16,246 --> 01:01:18,972
just to shut the door
and walk away.
1276
01:01:19,625 --> 01:01:23,096
And now, Jack, here is your
good friend, Ron Tauranac.
1277
01:01:30,146 --> 01:01:33,333
Well, I was at Monaco,
1278
01:01:34,062 --> 01:01:38,939
and I was walking along past
the oceanfront
1279
01:01:39,284 --> 01:01:42,372
and a friend said,
"Just a moment.
1280
01:01:42,472 --> 01:01:44,176
I'll introduce you to someone."
1281
01:01:44,276 --> 01:01:46,196
They introduced me
to Bernie Ecclestone.
1282
01:01:50,151 --> 01:01:52,685
I said I'd buy into the team.
1283
01:01:54,529 --> 01:01:59,689
And I said, "Well, no.
I wouldn't sell a half share,
1284
01:01:59,789 --> 01:02:02,607
I've been in business
with a friend for many years,
1285
01:02:02,707 --> 01:02:06,010
and I wouldn't want
to do that again."
1286
01:02:06,816 --> 01:02:10,233
And it then came that he wanted
to sell, full stop.
1287
01:02:10,541 --> 01:02:12,768
I said, "But I'll sell you
the business."
1288
01:02:13,190 --> 01:02:16,469
Ron had his own ideas
of what should happen,
1289
01:02:16,569 --> 01:02:18,466
and he didn't always,
sort of, fall into line,
1290
01:02:18,566 --> 01:02:20,486
so I changed them.
1291
01:02:21,330 --> 01:02:25,055
He gave me a call
and offered me...
1292
01:02:25,554 --> 01:02:27,489
I think it was one million less.
1293
01:02:31,275 --> 01:02:32,865
Really? I don't remember.
1294
01:02:32,965 --> 01:02:34,862
I should have bartered
but I didn't.
1295
01:02:34,962 --> 01:02:36,242
I just thought about it
and said,
1296
01:02:36,306 --> 01:02:38,087
"Gee, I'm in trouble
if I don't sell now.
1297
01:02:38,187 --> 01:02:40,276
I've arranged all these things."
1298
01:02:40,376 --> 01:02:42,296
So I agreed to sell.
1299
01:02:42,987 --> 01:02:45,498
It was agreed,
he was looking for one price,
1300
01:02:45,598 --> 01:02:47,787
and I'd probably try
and buy it for less.
1301
01:02:48,900 --> 01:02:51,242
Nothing's changed
as far as I'm concerned.
1302
01:02:52,049 --> 01:02:53,946
And then when Bernie sold it,
1303
01:02:54,046 --> 01:02:56,825
things, you know,
went downhill really fast
1304
01:02:56,925 --> 01:02:59,421
from that point to where
it just totally disappeared.
1305
01:03:12,131 --> 01:03:14,757
We had a shed full of things
1306
01:03:14,857 --> 01:03:17,353
that were very sentimental
to the family.
1307
01:03:18,774 --> 01:03:21,270
So, it was a telephone call
from my mom.
1308
01:03:22,345 --> 01:03:25,893
"I got some bad news.
The shed went up in flames."
1309
01:03:25,993 --> 01:03:27,913
And it's, like, "What?"
1310
01:03:28,873 --> 01:03:30,232
How could it go up in flames?
1311
01:03:30,332 --> 01:03:32,252
You know, it was just a mystery.
1312
01:03:33,365 --> 01:03:36,375
And anything we can't find,
1313
01:03:36,475 --> 01:03:38,756
we just assumed
that it's down to the fire.
1314
01:03:47,112 --> 01:03:49,431
To a child, their parents
1315
01:03:49,531 --> 01:03:51,643
are the only ones they have.
1316
01:03:52,564 --> 01:03:55,482
So, therefore,
you do put them on a pedestal.
1317
01:03:55,828 --> 01:03:58,055
You know,
they are perfect because...
1318
01:03:58,554 --> 01:04:01,488
in order for you to survive
in the family unit,
1319
01:04:01,588 --> 01:04:04,276
you've got to believe
that they're perfect.
1320
01:04:05,658 --> 01:04:09,283
But if you have a very famous
and successful parent,
1321
01:04:09,383 --> 01:04:12,930
their perfection
is held up there,
1322
01:04:13,030 --> 01:04:15,465
not just by you
but by the public as well,
1323
01:04:15,565 --> 01:04:19,174
and I suppose they've got
further to fall.
1324
01:04:20,134 --> 01:04:22,515
So, if they turn out
to be flawed,
1325
01:04:24,703 --> 01:04:26,700
you know, it might be harder
to deal with.
1326
01:04:27,084 --> 01:04:28,486
There was action aplenty
1327
01:04:28,510 --> 01:04:29,902
in the Formula Ford event.
1328
01:04:30,002 --> 01:04:33,281
David Brabham in the yellow car
was about to lap Schumac
1329
01:04:33,381 --> 01:04:35,009
when he smashed
into the back of him.
1330
01:04:35,109 --> 01:04:36,660
I'm coping pretty well.
1331
01:04:36,760 --> 01:04:38,542
I've still got a lot to learn,
1332
01:04:38,642 --> 01:04:40,562
through what Dad's
telling me and that.
1333
01:04:41,483 --> 01:04:44,786
When I was at the
Australian Grand Prix in 1987,
1334
01:04:45,246 --> 01:04:47,489
my girlfriend got pregnant
that year,
1335
01:04:47,589 --> 01:04:50,253
and I didn't qualify
particularly well.
1336
01:04:50,353 --> 01:04:52,542
I was last, 30 something.
1337
01:04:53,195 --> 01:04:57,971
Just before the race, my father
had a Formula One pass,
1338
01:04:58,071 --> 01:05:00,467
and I said, you know,
"You better get me one of those
1339
01:05:00,567 --> 01:05:02,487
for when I'm in Formula One."
1340
01:05:02,948 --> 01:05:04,537
Didn't know what else to say,
you know,
1341
01:05:04,637 --> 01:05:05,805
and he just said, "You know,
1342
01:05:05,905 --> 01:05:08,400
the days of you ever getting
to Formula One are finished."
1343
01:05:09,821 --> 01:05:12,624
And he just, like, deadpan,
dead serious.
1344
01:05:13,008 --> 01:05:16,518
And that just triggered
a switch in me,
1345
01:05:16,618 --> 01:05:18,399
and I told him to fuck off,
1346
01:05:18,499 --> 01:05:20,419
and I walked off.
1347
01:05:20,880 --> 01:05:24,428
And I had steam coming out
of my...
1348
01:05:24,528 --> 01:05:25,963
I was so angry,
1349
01:05:26,063 --> 01:05:28,675
so incredibly pissed off
with him,
1350
01:05:29,404 --> 01:05:32,706
that I took that energy
1351
01:05:33,014 --> 01:05:34,933
and took it into the race car.
1352
01:05:35,740 --> 01:05:40,424
And turned it into...
let's call it determination.
1353
01:05:40,847 --> 01:05:42,052
"I'm gonna fucking show you."
1354
01:05:54,171 --> 01:05:55,899
Jack Brabham, keeping an eye
1355
01:05:55,923 --> 01:05:57,719
on young son David.
1356
01:05:57,819 --> 01:05:59,485
And I got in that car
and I said,
1357
01:05:59,585 --> 01:06:02,250
"You tell those guys in front
of me that I'm coming through.
1358
01:06:02,350 --> 01:06:04,285
They'd better
get out of my way."
1359
01:06:04,385 --> 01:06:07,933
Boom, off I went, and drove
ten notches higher
1360
01:06:08,033 --> 01:06:10,121
than I've ever driven
up until that point.
1361
01:06:10,221 --> 01:06:11,657
Young David made a slow start
1362
01:06:11,757 --> 01:06:13,308
but he's come back
through the pack.
1363
01:06:13,408 --> 01:06:16,787
Yes, actually,
David is actually third now.
1364
01:06:17,171 --> 01:06:20,911
I went from 35th to 1st
in 14 laps
1365
01:06:21,011 --> 01:06:22,931
and won the race in 15.
1366
01:06:24,429 --> 01:06:26,924
That whole experience for me
was my gift
1367
01:06:27,424 --> 01:06:32,223
because I discovered something
about the mental mindset,
1368
01:06:33,030 --> 01:06:36,831
and what can be created by that.
1369
01:06:38,866 --> 01:06:41,301
It was a magic lesson for me
1370
01:06:41,401 --> 01:06:43,320
because I carried
that through my career.
1371
01:06:46,776 --> 01:06:50,362
I think as I got older,
you start to understand
1372
01:06:50,462 --> 01:06:52,513
more about what Jack
actually achieved,
1373
01:06:52,613 --> 01:06:55,262
and it's so big, so vast.
1374
01:06:55,608 --> 01:06:58,680
Probably was a negative
1375
01:06:58,987 --> 01:07:01,483
because I... My attitude was
1376
01:07:02,174 --> 01:07:04,900
"Well, I'll never get that far,
but how far could I get?"
1377
01:07:08,510 --> 01:07:11,673
We actually met at...
1378
01:07:11,773 --> 01:07:13,593
Initially we met at a racetrack.
1379
01:07:13,693 --> 01:07:15,475
You know, I grew up
with motor sport,
1380
01:07:15,575 --> 01:07:17,495
so it just seemed normal.
1381
01:07:18,685 --> 01:07:20,774
I had had a very successful
1382
01:07:20,874 --> 01:07:23,001
Formula Three season in 1989.
1383
01:07:23,101 --> 01:07:25,865
I'd won the British F3
Championship and the World Cup,
1384
01:07:26,365 --> 01:07:29,644
and I'm at home, doing my thing,
and the phone rings,
1385
01:07:29,744 --> 01:07:32,447
and it's the Brabham
Formula One team saying,
1386
01:07:32,547 --> 01:07:34,098
"How would you like to come out?
1387
01:07:34,198 --> 01:07:36,095
We want you to be
in Formula One."
1388
01:07:36,195 --> 01:07:37,438
"What?"
1389
01:07:37,538 --> 01:07:39,458
You know, it was like,
"Are you serious?"
1390
01:07:43,951 --> 01:07:45,871
Money.
1391
01:07:46,754 --> 01:07:48,651
Yeah, I ended up driving
for a team
1392
01:07:48,751 --> 01:07:50,532
that ran out of money.
1393
01:07:50,632 --> 01:07:52,091
This is his first outing
1394
01:07:52,115 --> 01:07:53,566
in a Formula One car.
1395
01:07:53,666 --> 01:07:55,562
And the preparation
for his race debut
1396
01:07:55,662 --> 01:07:57,789
in less than two weeks
will be rushed.
1397
01:07:57,889 --> 01:07:59,863
You turn up at the workshop,
1398
01:07:59,963 --> 01:08:02,128
and your car is still there
with no engine in it.
1399
01:08:02,228 --> 01:08:03,457
"What's happening?"
"No one's paid
1400
01:08:03,481 --> 01:08:04,816
for the engines yet."
1401
01:08:04,916 --> 01:08:07,143
"So, are we gonna
make the race?" "Don't know."
1402
01:08:07,719 --> 01:08:10,230
The goal
at the moment is to qualify
1403
01:08:10,330 --> 01:08:12,342
and to finish the race.
1404
01:08:12,442 --> 01:08:14,761
Sadly, it turned out
to be a very difficult season,
1405
01:08:14,861 --> 01:08:17,948
and maybe it defined us,
maybe it helped us as a couple.
1406
01:08:18,048 --> 01:08:19,984
It certainly proved
that we could stick together
1407
01:08:20,084 --> 01:08:21,711
whether it was good,
bad or ugly.
1408
01:08:26,074 --> 01:08:28,570
It was just a mess,
an absolute mess.
1409
01:08:28,915 --> 01:08:30,773
But then I went into
sports car racing,
1410
01:08:30,873 --> 01:08:32,793
and really found my niche.
1411
01:08:38,169 --> 01:08:39,590
Well, I have to say,
1412
01:08:39,614 --> 01:08:41,102
that was an absolute blast.
1413
01:08:41,202 --> 01:08:43,391
You know, dicing for the lead
the whole way.
1414
01:08:50,687 --> 01:08:52,737
We lived a lot nearer
to the edge,
1415
01:08:52,837 --> 01:08:55,141
you know,
when we stopped evolving.
1416
01:08:56,408 --> 01:09:00,440
I often think about, you know,
what we need out of modern life.
1417
01:09:02,206 --> 01:09:05,600
Sportsmen being in control
of a motor vehicle,
1418
01:09:05,700 --> 01:09:07,367
you're in the moment.
1419
01:09:07,467 --> 01:09:11,153
It's that kind of dance
of physics and mechanics,
1420
01:09:12,267 --> 01:09:15,238
and they carry it out
to the nth degree,
1421
01:09:15,338 --> 01:09:19,447
right on the edge
of the envelope of their skill.
1422
01:09:19,985 --> 01:09:22,841
And that is happiness.
1423
01:09:22,941 --> 01:09:25,744
It's the Everest of...
1424
01:09:26,743 --> 01:09:28,739
feeling alive, I suppose.
1425
01:09:29,546 --> 01:09:31,926
You just find
that they are very selfish.
1426
01:09:32,886 --> 01:09:35,421
He's probably one
of the better sportsmen.
1427
01:09:37,264 --> 01:09:40,351
There was a lot
of similarities between
1428
01:09:40,451 --> 01:09:43,446
me as a kid with my dad,
and the kids with myself.
1429
01:09:45,020 --> 01:09:46,725
I was away a lot as well.
1430
01:09:46,825 --> 01:09:48,606
...the great race at Le Mans
1431
01:09:48,706 --> 01:09:50,526
and there is an Aussie there,
David Brabham.
1432
01:09:50,626 --> 01:09:53,329
It's just you get into
this mindset that you kind of
1433
01:09:53,429 --> 01:09:56,017
forget about other things
around you
1434
01:09:56,117 --> 01:09:58,114
and some of those times
it was family stuff.
1435
01:09:58,421 --> 01:10:00,625
The most important thing
is the next corner.
1436
01:10:00,725 --> 01:10:03,029
You get to the limit, you know,
there's another limit.
1437
01:10:03,643 --> 01:10:06,500
Next one, next one, next one.
1438
01:10:06,600 --> 01:10:08,650
And there are things I know.
My wife turns around
1439
01:10:08,750 --> 01:10:10,340
and says,
"You're so like your father."
1440
01:10:10,440 --> 01:10:12,359
I was like, "Don't."
1441
01:10:14,932 --> 01:10:18,557
I think it's not a case
of when a guy starts.
1442
01:10:18,657 --> 01:10:21,859
It's how long they've been
having to pack their bags,
1443
01:10:21,959 --> 01:10:23,664
go to their hotel,
leave their hotel,
1444
01:10:23,764 --> 01:10:26,951
go to the circuit, go testing,
and they get fed up.
1445
01:10:30,599 --> 01:10:32,518
Depression plays a role
when you stop.
1446
01:10:33,555 --> 01:10:35,475
Of that there is no doubt.
1447
01:10:36,512 --> 01:10:38,432
You know it's the end
of your career,
1448
01:10:39,008 --> 01:10:41,235
you know you're not as fast
as you were.
1449
01:10:41,849 --> 01:10:45,459
I was shocked at how much
of a low I went into.
1450
01:10:46,495 --> 01:10:49,928
They're lost,
and I think it's hard for them.
1451
01:10:50,028 --> 01:10:51,578
They're used to people
just telling them
1452
01:10:51,602 --> 01:10:53,202
they're the best thing
since slice bread.
1453
01:10:53,253 --> 01:10:54,920
They are their successes.
1454
01:10:55,020 --> 01:10:56,302
Everybody wants a piece of you,
1455
01:10:56,402 --> 01:10:58,184
and suddenly the phone
doesn't ring.
1456
01:11:09,150 --> 01:11:10,701
Tonight, we're welcoming back
1457
01:11:10,801 --> 01:11:13,620
one of the great names
in motor racing.
1458
01:11:13,720 --> 01:11:16,653
The continuation
of the epic history of a story
1459
01:11:16,753 --> 01:11:19,341
that began with
a young Jack Brabham racing
1460
01:11:19,441 --> 01:11:21,952
that midget car
out there in the corner.
1461
01:11:22,052 --> 01:11:25,254
And Le Mans victories
for David and for Geoff
1462
01:11:25,354 --> 01:11:28,019
help keep the Brabham name
in the forefront.
1463
01:11:28,119 --> 01:11:30,500
And that's what we're
celebrating here tonight.
1464
01:11:31,152 --> 01:11:33,471
When I was 40, I thought,
1465
01:11:33,571 --> 01:11:35,491
okay, what am I gonna do
in ten years' time?
1466
01:11:37,834 --> 01:11:40,037
So I started to think
about doing something
1467
01:11:40,137 --> 01:11:41,765
with the Brabham name.
1468
01:11:41,865 --> 01:11:43,839
I had no idea what or how,
1469
01:11:43,939 --> 01:11:45,936
I just felt there was
an opportunity.
1470
01:11:46,512 --> 01:11:47,986
I mean, I have to be honest,
1471
01:11:48,086 --> 01:11:50,313
I don't know if Dad
was the best businessman.
1472
01:11:53,078 --> 01:11:55,151
Someone in Germany said,
"I own Brabham."
1473
01:12:00,220 --> 01:12:02,539
One of the foolish things
that my dad did
1474
01:12:02,639 --> 01:12:05,687
was that he lost control
of the name.
1475
01:12:05,787 --> 01:12:07,492
"What do you mean?
That's our name.
1476
01:12:07,592 --> 01:12:09,642
How can you...
How can you claim that?"
1477
01:12:09,742 --> 01:12:12,407
He knew nothing,
had no interest in marketing,
1478
01:12:12,507 --> 01:12:13,905
about selling himself,
1479
01:12:14,005 --> 01:12:15,978
about creating a brand
for himself.
1480
01:12:16,078 --> 01:12:17,322
This is a Japanese spanner.
1481
01:12:17,422 --> 01:12:20,279
Not a cheap Asian spanner,
but a quality hand tool.
1482
01:12:20,379 --> 01:12:21,891
And it's good. I know it's...
1483
01:12:21,991 --> 01:12:24,080
All those things were just
not part of his makeup.
1484
01:12:24,180 --> 01:12:27,843
If it was gonna cost Dad
five dollars to renew the name,
1485
01:12:27,943 --> 01:12:29,878
he wouldn't do it.
You know, it was...
1486
01:12:29,978 --> 01:12:32,028
So, my dad and I
had a chat about it,
1487
01:12:32,128 --> 01:12:34,048
and we were gonna go to court.
1488
01:12:34,624 --> 01:12:36,828
Dad pulled out
at the last minute,
1489
01:12:36,928 --> 01:12:38,848
and said, "You're on your own."
1490
01:12:41,075 --> 01:12:42,742
There was a bit of anger,
I guess.
1491
01:12:42,842 --> 01:12:44,815
"How could you do this?"
1492
01:12:44,915 --> 01:12:47,081
It would've made life
a little bit more comfortable
1493
01:12:47,181 --> 01:12:49,100
and easier for us
and less stressful.
1494
01:12:49,984 --> 01:12:52,418
So, do I go into the lion's den
1495
01:12:52,518 --> 01:12:55,144
or do I...
Do I walk away, you know?
1496
01:12:55,244 --> 01:12:57,870
And I chose to walk
into the lion's den,
1497
01:12:57,970 --> 01:13:00,750
which had felt like a lion's den
for seven years.
1498
01:13:00,850 --> 01:13:03,922
It was financially very
crippling for us as a family
1499
01:13:04,268 --> 01:13:07,355
and I think that, in a way,
energized David as well,
1500
01:13:07,455 --> 01:13:10,695
It's like "Right. If you don't...
If you're not willing to fight
1501
01:13:10,795 --> 01:13:12,615
to get your name back,
I'm gonna do it,
1502
01:13:12,715 --> 01:13:14,036
because I'm not letting it go.
1503
01:13:14,136 --> 01:13:16,493
But then it's mine, basically.
1504
01:13:16,593 --> 01:13:19,719
Any decisions now,
once this court case is over,
1505
01:13:19,819 --> 01:13:21,739
subject to winning it,
will be down to me."
1506
01:13:23,889 --> 01:13:27,283
You've been cocooned
for 30 years
1507
01:13:27,383 --> 01:13:31,392
as a professional sportsman,
and that's all you know.
1508
01:13:31,492 --> 01:13:33,734
And then, all of a sudden,
you go into the real world
1509
01:13:33,834 --> 01:13:35,539
and you don't know how it works.
1510
01:13:35,639 --> 01:13:37,228
So then you're hard on yourself
1511
01:13:37,328 --> 01:13:39,340
because you don't know
how it works.
1512
01:13:39,440 --> 01:13:41,759
You know, the amount of times
I use Google to figure out
1513
01:13:41,859 --> 01:13:43,526
what someone said, you know,
1514
01:13:43,626 --> 01:13:45,407
because it was, like,
what the hell is that?
1515
01:13:45,507 --> 01:13:46,521
I had no idea.
1516
01:13:46,621 --> 01:13:48,441
And then you'd start
to lose confidence.
1517
01:13:53,148 --> 01:13:56,466
With perseverance
and support from the family,
1518
01:13:56,566 --> 01:13:57,733
I won the court case.
1519
01:13:57,833 --> 01:14:01,381
Brabham, one of most
iconic names in motor sport,
1520
01:14:01,481 --> 01:14:03,339
is coming back.
1521
01:14:03,439 --> 01:14:06,181
We're coming back
with a completely new model
1522
01:14:06,281 --> 01:14:09,314
for the way the race team
is funded and run.
1523
01:14:09,852 --> 01:14:12,401
Be one of those to seize
this opportunity.
1524
01:14:12,501 --> 01:14:16,110
Come join us and become
the heartbeat of our race team.
1525
01:14:18,952 --> 01:14:22,730
I took my wife out
to the coffee shop, penniless.
1526
01:14:22,830 --> 01:14:26,148
And a beggar came to the table,
1527
01:14:26,248 --> 01:14:28,897
and I thought I've got
one pound left in my pocket.
1528
01:14:29,780 --> 01:14:31,830
And I just pulled it out,
I gave it to him.
1529
01:14:31,930 --> 01:14:33,443
I said, "There you go,
off you go."
1530
01:14:33,543 --> 01:14:34,672
And off he went.
1531
01:14:34,772 --> 01:14:38,243
And I'm staring out the window,
going, "What can I do,
1532
01:14:38,343 --> 01:14:40,240
what can I do, what can I do?"
1533
01:14:43,450 --> 01:14:46,575
And I ended up selling
my Le Mans-winning Rolex.
1534
01:14:46,675 --> 01:14:49,417
And of course we managed
to have a very successful
1535
01:14:49,517 --> 01:14:52,450
crowd-funding campaign
called Project Brabham.
1536
01:14:52,550 --> 01:14:54,984
My father, Sir Jack Brabham,
1537
01:14:55,084 --> 01:14:58,502
started out with little more
than talent and self-belief
1538
01:14:59,078 --> 01:15:01,858
and became the only person
ever to win
1539
01:15:01,958 --> 01:15:05,567
a Formula One World Championship
in a car he constructed.
1540
01:15:07,141 --> 01:15:08,424
It was a great success.
1541
01:15:08,524 --> 01:15:10,996
It ultimately ended up
being about 300 grand.
1542
01:15:11,096 --> 01:15:13,016
But 300 grand
doesn't get you a race team.
1543
01:15:15,858 --> 01:15:17,409
You know,
we had a team of people
1544
01:15:17,509 --> 01:15:19,290
trying to work through that,
1545
01:15:19,390 --> 01:15:21,863
and, of course, you've had
one injection of cash,
1546
01:15:21,963 --> 01:15:23,553
there's no more money coming in.
1547
01:15:23,653 --> 01:15:25,434
So you know
over a period of time
1548
01:15:25,534 --> 01:15:27,469
if you don't bring more cash in,
1549
01:15:27,569 --> 01:15:29,489
you're gonna run out of money.
1550
01:15:33,214 --> 01:15:35,072
Last weekend, David Brabham
1551
01:15:35,172 --> 01:15:37,990
drove his father's
famous Cooper-Climax T51
1552
01:15:38,090 --> 01:15:39,603
at Sebring in Florida.
1553
01:15:39,703 --> 01:15:41,984
You know
that when he was gonna go,
1554
01:15:42,084 --> 01:15:44,004
it was gonna be big news.
1555
01:15:44,541 --> 01:15:47,167
Driving the Cooper-Climax
really gave him a thrill.
1556
01:15:47,267 --> 01:15:48,362
- It meant so much to him.
- One of those moments
1557
01:15:48,386 --> 01:15:49,471
in time
1558
01:15:49,571 --> 01:15:51,007
you'll never forget
where you were
1559
01:15:51,107 --> 01:15:52,582
when you got the call, you know.
1560
01:15:52,682 --> 01:15:54,947
And it was my brother Geoff
who called me.
1561
01:15:55,293 --> 01:15:56,959
I received a phone call.
1562
01:15:57,059 --> 01:15:59,455
Dad had passed away,
and it was just a huge shock.
1563
01:15:59,555 --> 01:16:01,912
He was going
to be doing dialysis,
1564
01:16:02,012 --> 01:16:03,141
because of his kidneys.
1565
01:16:03,241 --> 01:16:06,635
So, he was in the routine
of having to get up quite early
1566
01:16:06,735 --> 01:16:08,901
to get to the hospital
to do the dialysis
1567
01:16:09,001 --> 01:16:10,974
because he couldn't do it
at home.
1568
01:16:11,074 --> 01:16:12,664
Okay. And now for some local.
1569
01:16:12,764 --> 01:16:13,935
She's come back
with a cup of tea,
1570
01:16:13,959 --> 01:16:15,144
and he's gone in bed.
1571
01:16:16,911 --> 01:16:20,113
I went straight into
"Right, okay,
1572
01:16:20,213 --> 01:16:22,878
the press are gonna be
all over this soon.
1573
01:16:22,978 --> 01:16:24,913
We're gonna have
to have a statement,
1574
01:16:25,013 --> 01:16:27,447
I'm gonna have to tell
our PR people
1575
01:16:27,547 --> 01:16:28,791
that it's happened."
1576
01:16:28,891 --> 01:16:32,016
And you go... you kind of go
into this mode,
1577
01:16:32,116 --> 01:16:35,856
which, in some way, I think
is a way of protecting you
1578
01:16:35,956 --> 01:16:38,145
from getting too involved
in the loss.
1579
01:16:39,604 --> 01:16:42,154
I spent more time
with him at the end of his life
1580
01:16:42,254 --> 01:16:45,033
than I ever did
at the beginning of my life.
1581
01:16:45,133 --> 01:16:48,105
And I had the opportunity
to probably get to know him
1582
01:16:48,205 --> 01:16:51,369
a little bit better, you know,
just before he died
1583
01:16:51,469 --> 01:16:53,888
than any other time
during his life.
1584
01:16:55,770 --> 01:16:58,957
Certainly the last
ten years of Jack's life,
1585
01:16:59,264 --> 01:17:02,297
our relationship was as good
as it ever had been.
1586
01:17:03,948 --> 01:17:05,768
You kind of get older,
you get bit wiser.
1587
01:17:05,868 --> 01:17:10,783
You... It doesn't pay
to judge other people's lives.
1588
01:17:11,206 --> 01:17:14,907
So, we actually had a...
Had a really good end
1589
01:17:15,007 --> 01:17:16,927
to that relationship.
1590
01:17:32,747 --> 01:17:36,141
It's hopeless. See,
if I couldn't say those words,
1591
01:17:36,241 --> 01:17:38,675
and needed to look to try
and do it from memory,
1592
01:17:38,775 --> 01:17:40,695
I'd say something different.
1593
01:17:43,690 --> 01:17:46,893
It's a joy to see the BT brand
being honored
1594
01:17:46,993 --> 01:17:50,487
with a new and exciting
Brabham BT62.
1595
01:17:50,948 --> 01:17:52,537
I wish David all the best
1596
01:17:52,637 --> 01:17:55,033
as he takes Brabham
into the future.
1597
01:17:55,133 --> 01:17:57,567
Well, you've built the model
of a future,
1598
01:17:57,667 --> 01:17:59,587
now let's see how it handles.
1599
01:18:01,315 --> 01:18:03,481
I got a call
from a contact of mine,
1600
01:18:03,581 --> 01:18:06,399
and said, "Look, I know
you've always been trying
1601
01:18:06,499 --> 01:18:08,895
to get the Brabham name
back out there
1602
01:18:08,995 --> 01:18:10,008
onto the world stage.
1603
01:18:10,108 --> 01:18:13,886
There's a group of people I know
that have got a vision as well,
1604
01:18:13,986 --> 01:18:15,945
and I think you guys
need to meet."
1605
01:18:18,786 --> 01:18:22,012
So I flew down to Adelaide,
and met with them.
1606
01:18:22,511 --> 01:18:24,561
You know, they wanted for me
to get involved,
1607
01:18:24,661 --> 01:18:27,771
and could we produce
a high-performance car.
1608
01:18:28,923 --> 01:18:30,666
I just wanted to get
Dad's perspective.
1609
01:18:30,766 --> 01:18:32,087
What do you...
How have you felt?
1610
01:18:32,187 --> 01:18:35,159
Yes, it's been just a whirlwind,
to be honest with you.
1611
01:18:35,259 --> 01:18:38,292
I'm sure after the event,
I'll sit back there and go, wow.
1612
01:18:39,214 --> 01:18:40,573
I'm so proud of him.
1613
01:18:40,673 --> 01:18:43,146
I think to see
what he's come from,
1614
01:18:43,246 --> 01:18:45,718
from being just a racing driver
who's done very well,
1615
01:18:45,818 --> 01:18:47,139
to the trials and tribulations
1616
01:18:47,239 --> 01:18:49,136
of learning about business
from scratch.
1617
01:18:49,236 --> 01:18:53,652
...global reveal
of the Brabham BT62.
1618
01:18:58,490 --> 01:19:00,410
The Brabham BT62.
1619
01:19:00,794 --> 01:19:02,959
To come out the other side
as a success
1620
01:19:03,059 --> 01:19:04,956
and with something
he truly believes in,
1621
01:19:05,056 --> 01:19:06,536
there's something to be said
for that,
1622
01:19:06,592 --> 01:19:10,101
and it's a good value and moral
to have as I grow up as well.
1623
01:19:14,732 --> 01:19:17,666
"He had an enormous amount
of grit and determination,
1624
01:19:17,766 --> 01:19:19,686
and never gave up,
1625
01:19:20,838 --> 01:19:23,041
which was demonstrated in 1959,
1626
01:19:23,141 --> 01:19:24,693
when he pushed his car
across the line
1627
01:19:24,793 --> 01:19:26,943
to win his first Formula One
World Championship."
1628
01:19:27,788 --> 01:19:30,322
Gonna start putting my shoes on,
because I gotta head.
1629
01:19:32,434 --> 01:19:34,354
I'm really proud of David.
1630
01:19:34,738 --> 01:19:37,978
I would say I'm prouder of him
for what he's done now,
1631
01:19:38,078 --> 01:19:40,052
post racing.
1632
01:19:40,152 --> 01:19:42,471
Taking on the court case
and taking on Brabham,
1633
01:19:42,571 --> 01:19:44,276
and saying,
"This has got to change,
1634
01:19:44,376 --> 01:19:46,411
this is what I want,
this is my dream."
1635
01:19:46,987 --> 01:19:49,022
I'm far prouder of him
doing that
1636
01:19:49,367 --> 01:19:51,379
because he's taken himself
1637
01:19:51,479 --> 01:19:53,399
absolutely out
of his comfort zone.
1638
01:19:54,743 --> 01:19:57,715
As you can see,
the car is lurking undercover
1639
01:19:57,815 --> 01:20:00,326
in the center of the
magnificent room behind me,
1640
01:20:00,426 --> 01:20:03,014
but we're also surrounded
by some amazing cars
1641
01:20:03,114 --> 01:20:05,226
from Brabham's history
and heritage.
1642
01:20:07,299 --> 01:20:09,695
We like to think we've done
what my father did
1643
01:20:09,795 --> 01:20:11,715
back in 1948,
1644
01:20:12,022 --> 01:20:14,403
backed ourselves
and got it done.
1645
01:20:15,632 --> 01:20:18,795
And developed a car
that absolutely has the right
1646
01:20:18,895 --> 01:20:22,198
to carry the Brabham name
into the future.
1647
01:20:25,845 --> 01:20:29,777
I personally don't think
David's actually grieved.
1648
01:20:29,877 --> 01:20:32,028
Realistically,
I don't think he's grieved.
1649
01:20:35,599 --> 01:20:39,262
And I think
part of the drive for this
1650
01:20:39,362 --> 01:20:41,397
does stem from his dad.
1651
01:20:42,587 --> 01:20:45,444
And although their relationship
obviously got so much better,
1652
01:20:45,544 --> 01:20:48,692
this, for him, is like
"This is what I did."
1653
01:20:52,916 --> 01:20:55,811
But also, I think it's important
that David does know
1654
01:20:55,911 --> 01:20:58,177
that he is David.
1655
01:20:58,906 --> 01:21:01,264
And you have to battle
with that, feeling part
1656
01:21:01,364 --> 01:21:03,744
of a legacy or whatever
you want to call it.
1657
01:21:05,319 --> 01:21:10,157
Because I can't say what's going
to have closure for David.
1658
01:21:10,502 --> 01:21:13,152
Whether it is just affirmation
that "Yes, I did this,"
1659
01:21:13,536 --> 01:21:17,084
or "Stuff you, you told me
this, that, and the other
1660
01:21:17,184 --> 01:21:19,910
when I was little,
and I've done it."
1661
01:21:20,217 --> 01:21:22,075
I don't know
which one it's gonna be.
1662
01:21:22,175 --> 01:21:24,095
I think we're on a 50/50
with that.
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