The backup Brabham behind a 50-year-old record
Brabham's first monocoque F1 car made Jack Brabham a winner across three decades - a record only recently broken by Lewis Hamilton. STUART CODLING examines the belated debut of the BT33
Change was on the cards in the Brabham world in 1970, though visitors to the launch of the BT33 - not a champagne gala but a here-it-is-mate unveiling in the Byfleet factory - would have been hard-pushed to spot much beyond engineering details and the new car's colours, as blue came in for green alongside the familiar yellow stripe. It was not widely known at the time that Jack Brabham had sold his shares in the company to his business partner and chief designer Ron Tauranac.
And why should it be? Neither man was known for their eagerness to engage in idle banter. As Tauranac 'posed' for pictures in the cockpit of the BT33, his first monocoque Formula 1 car, his expression was not that of a man freshly in charge of his own destiny but one thinking "Do I have to?"
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