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| Title | Jack Brabham |
| | Creator | Julie EDGAR
Birth Date: 1951 |
| | Date Created | 2004 |
| | Collection Area | Sculpture |
| | Medium | bronze on granite plinth |
| | Subject | Sir Jack BRABHAM OBE |
| | Information | Sir Jack Brabham OBE (b. 1926), racing car driver, studied mechanical engineering before working as a RAAF mechanic during World War 2. After some years building midget racing cars, Brabham took to driving, winning the Australian midget-car title in 1951. Switching to road racing, he moved to England in the hope of becoming a Formula 1 driver. Racing in a Cooper Climax, Brabham won the World Championship in 1959 in sensational style. In the last lap of the deciding race he was leading the field when his fuel ran out. Undaunted, he pushed the vehicle over the finish line to take the Championship. It was his first of three. In 1966 he became the first driver in Formula 1 history to win the title in a car of his own design, the Repco Brabham. Australian of the Year in 1966, he won a career total of 14 Grand Prix events before retiring in 1970. In 1979 he became the first person to be knighted for services to motor sport. |
| | Access No. | 2005.1 |
| | Credit Line | Collection: National Portrait Gallery, Canberra
Purchased with funds provided by L Gordon Darling AC CMG 2005 |
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