REPCO-BRABHAM The Fantastic Year (1966)
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- Опубликовано: 7 май 2013
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Australia's Jack Brabham and motor company Repco joined forces to win the 1966 Formula 1 World Championship. Brabham remains the only man to have won an F1 Championship in a car of his own design. Brabham in a Brabham. Sir Jack still attends motoring events around the country and is without a doubt an Australian icon. This clip is from the Golden Age of Motorsport Vol 3 dvd and appears to have been made by Repco themselves. All credit to the current owners. Awesome! • Sir Jack Brabham - Lif... For some great motorsport videos please check Duke Marketing www.dukevideo.com/ where you can purchase some great stuff. 
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Βrabham , Jim Clark , Graham Hill , Denny Hulme , John Surtees....Legends on driving..
RIP and long live Sir Jack Brabham (April 2, 1926 - May 19, 2014), aged 88
You will always be remembered as a legend.
This era really needs to be talked about more, there are things that happened then that you'd never see nowadays in F1.
The F1 Golden Era, 1960 - 70
@@GregZO61961 tô 1965 had the highest entries than 1966-1972
The final era of the wild west era of f1
Sad day for Australia, RIP Sir Jack! You will be forever an inspiration to us all!
I was lucky enough to see this car at the "Oulton Park Gold Cup 2019". Repco-Brabham BT20 001 Sir Jacks own car.
Now fully restored and truly amazing to both see & hear on track.
R.I.P Sir Jack Brabham. Thanks for your contributions to F1 racing and motorsports in general
I agree with you. Sir Jack Brabham´s legacy will be eternal. No other pilot will be a Formula 1 World Champion driving a car built by himself. Greetings from Venezuela.
And Also from the UK
Greetings from South East Asia
Mmm-mmm-mmm! Brabham, Clark, Hill, Stewart, Surtees, Hulme - Titans all and maybe the greatest era of motor racing. What a time it was! Thanks for this video time machine.
Great advertising for the day. And good history of the development period of the 60's 🕵️♂️
When it comes down to practical, workable solutions, Jack Brabham, and Phil Irvine of Repco, + John Judd, were.the class of the field.
The year of my birth - I remember it well!
"Cold winter weather.." in Southern Australia!
Don't forget to give a shout out to GM/Oldsmobile for the initial design of the engine.
Magical year.
Very cool, thanks
Great to see these now old movies on RUclips, I was present at a lot of races then and took photos on my B/W Camera and some 35mm Colour Slides, but lacking a powerful Telephoto most of the pictures you would now consider 'rubbish'
I salute you "Aussies" for an incredible achievement via Jack Brabham OBE. Nothing comes close to a racing V8 engine on full chat.
Beware I think New Zealand is after the credentials !
My first proper F1 race as a spectator.
Great historical footage. Thanks for making it available.
1966, and the tires are treaded, but they're getting wider, and those cursed wings have yet to be introduced. Nothing but pure horsepower and driver skill involved. Would people be interested in seeing such racing today?
@Andy Harman . . . and that was also back in the era when the driver had to make the tires last the entire race; no pit stop for a replacement set. I'd be interested to see such racing nowadays.
@@bloqk16 never again
@@bloqk16 Without disagreeing with you, but it was not so much the driver that made the tyres last, but the tyres were designed to last whole races, I too would love to see a return to no tyre changes, I think engineers, on the pit wall calculating overcuts and undercuts and tyre compound choice detracts from the race, I like to see overtaking on the track, not in the pits, in my opinion, for what its worth.
@@bloqk16 so that's where the term
"Taken out of the race" comes from?
@@jamesreynolds2867 I don't think most race fans would disagree with you, but how do you set up the rules to achieve the kind of racing you want to see? Formula One wants to bill itself as the pinnacle of auto motive development and technology. It is hard to be the 'best' if you inflict rules on the builders to limit what they can do. NASCAR is the opposite end of the spectrum - everybody uses exactly the same chassis and body and can only use different engines. Of course the engines, no matter the maker, are almost clones of one another.
This era of racing, and the pre-wing cars is also my favorite era. I think we'll both need to satisfy ourselves by watching the vintage racers while we still can. The racing isn't as cut throat, but the sounds, and occasionally the show, is still fun to watch.
On second thought, this racing does still exist. Formula Ford is roughly the same cars (tube framed open wheeled) as Formula One in the early 60's. The engines are almost as high horse power as the F1 cars were in the 1.5 liter era (then ~175 hp/ now123.5 hp). The racing is competitive, if not as high stakes. Tires last the race, so does the tank of gas. The only problem is that the birds watching the racing are as old as we are now, not the fresh lookers we remember.
Bloody great stuff
What an awesome video. I have no idea where you found this footage, but thanks so much for sharing!
Thanks for the kind words. We have to thank Repco for going to the trouble producing this all those years ago, which turns out to be a wonderful tribute to Sir Jack, a true Australian legend. Kudos Repco!
Congratulations for this excellent video. Sir Jack Brabham´s legacy will be eternal. No other pilot will be a Formula 1 World Champion driving a car designed and built by himself. Good luck to australian Daniel Ricciardo in 2016. Greetings from Venezuela.
What an amazing video,thanks for sharing.
What a great display of the spirit of Aus. Sir Jack, a Man I'm proud to call Sir indeed.
Well said
fantastico bravo bravo
thanks
The 1966 Ferraris could have given Repco-Brabham some competition for the World Championship if John Surtees had not gotten totally pissed off with Ferrari and quit the team. Still, Repco-Brabham was super-reliable compared to most of the other teams on the grid that year.
I found the contrast of the film was interesting: Film footage of the F1 races in Europe having a sepia tone to it; but when in Australia, the film was in color. Was it implying that European weather was dreary while Australian weather was sunny and nice?
the only man to have ever designed, built & raced his own car to a world championship ..
It will never happen again..a simply out of this world achievement.
It was an Oldsmobile engine. LOL. shut up.
@@AmericasChoice He still assembled it and engineered it for racing conditions..that's what Rodney Sprenger is meaning
@@AmericasChoice Itwas basically an Oldsmobile block & main bearing caps. The rest was designed & engineeredby Repco. The cylinder heads were designed by Australian Phil Irving.
Jack took most of the credit, but without the team input from Ron Taurenac and Phil Irving and others the car would have ran well behind.
BT ,19 being Brabham Taurenac at least acknowledged in the Brabham car model numbers.
Good old Aussie Ingenuity
Oldsmobile engine. LOL
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Baú da Felicidade..!
Veritables pilotes......🏆🏆🏆🏆
Australia clean sweeped in 1966 Formula one.
& 1967
Too true..the tough as teak Denis (Denny) Hulme
😕 A half hour long Repco advert .... starring Sir Jack Brabham & others.
engines with incredible power.
chassis that were not suited to such power.
in the pictures, we can see some machines being raised in the front by the result of a violent propulsion of the engine.
conclusion; the pilots of that time were, it is true, supermen because it was necessary to have a great courage in these races or any error, any technical breakdown was too often; fatal.
RIP Jack. Superb effort. Minor correction on the Australian publicity clip though... The cylinder heads on that engine were designed from scratch by an Australian, Phil Irving, the same man who gave us the Vincent Black Shadow. (And Tuning For Speed.) Induction usually came from a set of 4 IDE-48a Webbers, not that rather odd mechanical fuel injection rig, but the 'short motor' came just about complete from an Oldsmobile production car. It had a crank with a shorter stroke made up, and the tops of decks milled down. It was chosen because it was an early Aluminium engine, and quite lightweight. Brabham figured that with a shorter stroke to keep it below 3 1/2 litres, he could rev it pretty high, he just needed decent cylinder heads. So he got Irving (fellow Australian) to design those and Repco (Australian company) to build them. All the moving parts were changed, and so were the original heads, but the block(s) and main caps and cases, were from a production car. It was allowed because nobody protested it, because it was at heart, a one man effort built in his garage. If Ferrari or Ford, (or Oldmobile for that matter), had entered that engine, it would have been disallowed because it was not a prototype, it was a tuned up production engine. He got away with it because nobody was prepared to object. How would you look if you managed to get a man thrown out in the car he built in his garage? And much of the car he really did build himself in the shed. But not the engine.
A lot, perhaps most of the design was done by Frank Hallam, Paul England and another bloke as sadly at that time Mr Irving was otherwise engaged. Kieth McCubbery and their apprentice John Judd were also involved in making the swarf and on the construction side. A very friendly, down to earth and extremely helpful bunch of blokes.
The rule of not a tuned stock block is something that’s new to me. There’s the Cooper Maserati, based on the Tipo 9 V12 from the 250S and the turbo-charged BMW 4-cylinder cast iron engine block.
Not challenging, just asking.
Destroked to keep below the three litre limit then. 3.5 litre much later in the nineties allowed to try and keep up with turbos.
Never heard that basing on a production engine was not allowed.
@@johnd8892 ~ It's a bit of a fuzzy rule. Ferrari make F1 engines that're very similar to a tune version of their road engines and nobody minds, but... Going back to the 1960s it meant something. They sort-a gave Brabham / Irving a get-outa jail free card because they were a small single-man privateer team, and the sort of people that rule was written to restrict were companies of tens of thousands...
Then a few years later, the Brabham team (Jack had long retired by then) teamed with BMW to make a very robust and very highly turbocharged 4, based on (? I think) a 1600cc production engine. Why that rule was a thing in 1964 and not a thing in 1980, I don't know...
I also follow bikes. Now if I decided to make a GP bike and use a very sharply modified Yamaha R1 engine, with my own chassis, I'd have trouble, because we've had at least one aspiring entry refused on exactly that basis. The rule says 'prototype' and that things is a production R1 that's been modified. That's not what the top classes in motor racing are about...
McLaren F1 in 66 also used a production based engine in some races. Based on the Ford 289, 260 or 221 V8. I imagine a similar approach as the Repco V8. Bruce McLaren would have seen what Brabham were achieving with Tasman series 2.5 litre version in 1965. As in the Sandown scenes possibly.
Tasman series helped Repco get some good experience with the design. I think the Tasman series experience was all part of the plan.
Is there any evidence that Brabham team competed under Australian licence during Jack Brabham´s career as driver until 1970 ?
From a major manufacturer of parts and automotive engineering machines it is shame to see where Repco are now , selling mainly Chinese produced products
God save the queen , around world
Beautiful documentary. Only a year later the Repco V8 was obsolete with the arrival of the Cosworth DVF.
The Repco 740-engined Brabham defeated the DFV for the championship in it's first year powering the Lotus 49. It was not rendered obsolete...the Quad Cam 1968 engine was very much equivalent to the DFV and the RB's were quick with it but Repco was losing interest and the engine was never really developed
@@stephenscholes4758 Are there any pictures or videos of the 4-cam 1968 engine you could refer me to? I didn't know there were 4-cam Repco's. Did you know there was a Repco Pontiac?
@@andyharman3022 The "Primotipo Repco Engines" is the definitive history, also Primotipo "By the numbers" primotipo.com/2019/02/22/rbe-by-the-numbers/
@@stephenscholes4758 Shut up. It was an Oldsmobile 215 CI engine. NOT an Australian design. LOL
@@AmericasChoice The 215 was a fragile pushrod design, and the Repco only used the blocks but then, not in 1967 Champ. The blocks were cast in L23 Aluminium-alloy at the Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation, Salmon St Port Melbourne , Australia. The heads were cast by Castalloy in Adelaide, South Australia. The 1967 engine shared only bolt patterns with the Oldsmobile engine. Once again, America's knowledge of motorsport is proven to be slight, they have contributed little to it
Automatische Antenen....Show.....Shows.....
flaggies standing on the line, brave...
Or ever see again, alas.
Repeteco!..
6:29 Jeebus!
Aluminum Oldsmobile 215 blocks with race OHC heads. Amazing.......
+Johnny Smokestack Myth. Six Olds blocks were used early in developing the heads. The Repco engine was entirely Repco designed and built.
@@nonyadamnbusiness9887 wrong. It was an Olds design.
Lassen Sie mich Irgendswas von der Races....Wissenheit......
Great video. Pity about the bogus audio.
That engine was not totally a Repco designed, Aussie-built piece. The aluminum blocks were Buick-Oldmobile 1950s small block (about 3.8-litre) V8s used for a few years in smaller Buick and Olds sedans. Problems with those engines caused GM to give up on them after a few years. I understand that at least some of the initial F1 engines were actual GM blocks reduced to 3-litres. Of course only the blocks would have been used. The rest, including the 1967 four-cam heads, were Repco. That same GM engine was sold to Rover and used in some Rover and MG cars well into the 1990s.
Thomas Nixon If that is the case then it is highly modified to the point of being a new casting. The buick mains were not cross bolted, the repco crankcase appears to extend further below the bearing parting line. The buick motor did not have 6 head bolts around each bore nor did it have wet cylinder liners. While it has been a long time since I read the repco engine service manual I cannot recall any lifter bosses in the block either. Repco had the resources to cast its own blocks or farm the job out to others
The block that features in this video is from 1967 and was cast at the CAC (privately run Commonwealth Aircraft Corporation) Fishermens Bend, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was dimensionally the same as the 1966 Olds unit so all the 1966 bits would fit. So, in sum. 1966 = Olds block. 1967 = Olds block (early season) and CAC block. 1968 = exclusively CAC block.
Used the sixties 215 cui , so 3.5 litre, aluminium V8 but in the Oldsmobile format with an extra head stud advantage. As Jack Brabham said in another documentary.
Later superceded but this documentary from the time implies it was production based SOHC for quite a while.
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Really shows off the lack of vision from out politicians these days. Australia has almost no manufacturing capability any more. So sad.
I think hopefully at 8:02 she probably was leaving her phone number etc ?
Likewise a fine Australian lass at 10:53😉
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Amazing story.yet if Repco were so world beating,how come they dissapeared so quickly?was it the win at all costs Ford V8's that so dominated till the advent of turbo's?
@TheFokker03. The Repco V8 was a prime example of the right engine at the right time, most of the F1 teams except Ferrari either fell-back on using underpowered Coventry Climax and BRM 1.5 litre bored oversize at the changeover from 1.5 litre to 3 litre engines, the simple but very effective SOHC Repco proved to be winners in 1966 and 1967, but with the arrival of Ford/Cosworth DFV being available to other teams from 1968, it was used exclusively by Lotus in 1967, the Repco was no match for the DFV, Repco developed a powerful DOHC engine which Brabham used in 1968, but it proved unreliable.
The Owners of Repco put it on the Australian Stock Exchange. From there it was bought by larger Companies who broke it up to avoid the strong competition it was giving them. It is now an Asian owned retailer.
Cosworth V8 was worlds better the the Rebco ripoff Oldsmobile.
@@AmericasChoice Whatever works, mate. It beat everything else including Ferraris , didn't it?
@@elroyfudbucker6806 It had more to do with the driver. Brabham is consistently under-rated. He was a fantastic driver. One of the best ever.
THIS, ladies and Gentleman was REAL MOTOR RACING!!!!!!!!
Racing in this VERY DANGEROUS and Fast Aera meant: The MEN DID THE JOB - not the machine!
Today we only have overpaid (!!) BETA-CUCK-Racers with ugly cars and ridicoulous HALO....
INSANE!!! This is no racing. They literally KILLED the spirit of the sport.
By the way... It would be very entertaining, to see ONLY one of these modern "so-called" Racingdrivers driving these 1960's F1-Cars and pushing them to the very Limit, in the manner of Clark, Rindt, Hill, Stewart or Brabham.... (*Irony OFF*) 😅 😅
Of course you've driven a modern F1 car, I take it. You sound as if you know all about it. In that case, go out and win a world championship! Git!
@Govanni:
I think, You did NOT understand the point: It is a question from "Good old DRIVER-SKILLS (!) versus insane COMPUTER-controlled Racing cars" ...
Did you get it now, dude...?
Ford and Lotus killed off Repco.Brabham continued as we know,not only with Sir Jack,but a multitude of other talented F1 drivers.
Sorry
Not
WOW! Drivers looked like real Men! Not a bunch of prissy sissy's with effeminate builds and braids. In today's F1 I can't decide who is prettier, the drivers or their high maintenance bimbo's!