The Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in August 1996 featured a tribute to Jack Brabham in the year of his 70th birthday. During the weekend of that meeting there were track parades by some of the cars bearing his name and here's a photograph I took during one of those demonstrations.
The first car here, driven by Jack Brabham himself, is the 1966 Brabham BT19 with which he won the 1966 World Championship. Only one BT19 was ever built, designed by Ron Tauranac in 1965 and originally intended to have a 1½ litre Coventry Climax engine, but when the F1 regulations were changed to allow engines twice that size from the 1966 season it was replaced by the 3 litre V8 Repco engine. Following the BT19 is the 1971 Brabham BT34 'lobster claw' car driven by, I think, John Watson. Jack Brabham won the World Championship in the BT19 and remains the only man to have won it in a car bearing his own name.
On 20 May 2014, the day after the death of Jack Brabham, I posted my own little tribute to him which included a photograph of the Brabham BT19 that I'd taken in the paddock at this 1996 meeting.
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