Brabham's return: The inside story
The Brabham name is coming back to motorsport, with its sights set on LMP1 and an innovative funding approach. Founder DAVID BRABHAM shares the masterplan with AUTOSPORT
The famous Brabham name is set to return to international motorsport from 2015, first as a team and then as a constructor.
David Brabham, son of three-time Formula 1 world champion and original Brabham founder Sir Jack, has a novel way of raising support for his LMP2/LMP1 plans.
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Charles Bradley is Chief Editor of Autosport US. After spending five years in the aerospace industry in his native North Wales, while working weekends as a freelance writer at racetracks around the UK, Charles joined the staff of Motoring News in the heart of London. He transferred to the nascent Autosport.com team in 2000 before transitioning to the magazine, becoming its Editor between 2011 and 2014. Charles then upped sticks to work in America, as Motorsport.com’s Editor in Chief, where he created the multi-national and multi-lingual editorial team that quickly became the world’s most-read motorsport website. He was instrumental in delivering three of the biggest Global F1 Fan Surveys in sports history and is also a multiple award-winning scriptwriter. Charles is an overseas member of the Guild of Motoring Writers and lives in Miami Beach with his wife Helen – and a cat that’s named after Serbia’s top football club.
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