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DAVID: You kind of get
into this mindset,

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when you’re in competition
for so long

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and you’re doing well...

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There were times
I’d catch myself and go,

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“That’s not who I am.

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You’re so like your father.”

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There’d be something
in the back saying,

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“Is this really who you are?”

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["BLACK EYED BRUISER" PLAYING]

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♪ If you see me
Walking down the street ♪

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♪ Better get out my way ♪

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♪ I'm a real king hitter ♪

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♪ Always have my say ♪

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♪ If you're looking
For a heavy time ♪

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♪ Best you don't come around ♪

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♪ Or else you'll get
Your heavy ♪

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♪ Six feet of solid ground ♪

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♪ I don't like trouble ♪

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♪ But if trouble
Is the name of your game ♪

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♪ You know where
You can find me, boy ♪

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♪ Everybody knows my name ♪

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♪ I'm the black eyed ♪

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♪ The black eyed ♪

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♪ The black eyed bruiser ♪

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-[MEN CHANTING]
-[VOICE ECHOING]

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MIKE: I’m standing now
in the showroom of a car dealer,

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at Greenacre in Sydney.

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And I suppose it’s very much
like any car dealer showroom.

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Except for all these trophies
behind me.

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He is a man who, in his time,
created history.

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Now, he thinks
he’s coming here tonight

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for a sporting interview
with his son.

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And it’s right here
that I’m going to surprise them.

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[MACHINE BEEPING]

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CHAPLAIN: We are here to honor,
celebrate and give thanks

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for the life
of Sir John Arthur Brabham,

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known as Jack.

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In one way or another,
Sir Jack’s life

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has affected us all.

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From those here
who knew him personally

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and called him Grandpa,
or Dad, or husband...

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to those here who shared
a lifelong friendship with Jack,

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to those of us here who knew him
from a distance

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and marveled
at his many achievements.

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CHAPLAIN: But we’ll also hear
about Sir Jack the man,

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the husband,
father and grandfather.

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What made him tick.
What was really important

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to him.

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[RAIN PATTERING]

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[PHONE DINGS]

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[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

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Any of you boys been
in a billy-cart derby before?

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ALL: Yes!

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NARRATOR: Jack was like any boy
of his age,

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obsessed with billy-carts.

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TONY: You could either have
a steering wheel

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or you could have a rope.

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And what wheels you got,
well, that was up to the gods.

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PRESENTER:
What do you say, Noah?

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It was a great race
and the best man did win.

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NARRATOR: He left school
at fifteen

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to work as an apprentice
in an engineer shop.

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MAN: We happened to get bits
and pieces

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and improvised with them.

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Cut and shuck and weld,
and do all sorts of things.

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Yeah, he was from an age

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when you had
a wide variety of skills.

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The kind of
industrial equivalent

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of the hunter-gatherer.

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MAN: You could see
there was no doubt,

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he was very earnest

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and he was going to be
a good engineer, good boy.

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TV NARRATOR: Even away
in the little-known interior,

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amongst the primitive natives,

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there are townships
where agents of Hitler

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wait and plan for the downfall
of a country

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that has sheltered them
and given them security.

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ALL: ♪ Waltzing Matilda
Waltzing Matilda ♪

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NARRATOR: The war interrupted
Jack’s sleepy existence,

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tinkering with bikes and cars.

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Every young man of fighting age

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finally had a reason
for adventure.

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MAN: ...the cause of liberty
and freedom.

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TONY: War had started,
of course,

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when he was a teenager.

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NARRATOR: Jack entered the RAAF
midway through the war.

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He was a mechanic
on RAAF Bowfighters,

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called the "Whispering Death,"

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because twin radial engines
were so quiet

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that they would come in low
and then strafe the Japanese

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before they even knew
what was hitting them.

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[EXPLOSION]

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NARRATOR: But Jack
had missed out on becoming

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a hero on the front line.

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MAN: ...the victim,
Australia’s manhood.

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NARRATOR: He was part
of a generation of young men

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who needed some kind of arena
to prove themselves

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as worthy as the heroes
who had returned home,

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victorious in combat.

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Eerie, isn’t it?

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You know what this
reminds me of? A theater.

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An empty theater right now.

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But it has its audience,
its cast, its drama,

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its comedy,
and sometimes its tragedy too.

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The spectacle here
is a moving play

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on an asphalt stage
with all the props.

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Producers and directors
in the wings,

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the music, extras, comedians,
good guys and bad guys,

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and the stars...

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NARRATOR: And it was
on a road trip up north

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that a friend took Jack
to his first-ever Speedway.

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What he would have seen
was motorized chaos.

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There were no roll-cages,
seat belts.

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The helmets were made of cork.

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A lot of blokes didn’t even
bother using goggles.

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MAN: The driver died
of severe head injuries.

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MAN: Oh, Jack?
Yes, the first time I met him

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was, uh, in '48.

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He, uh... was only a kid then

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and he came up
with the Speedway car.

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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

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TONY: Can you imagine
driving down a dirt road

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and then having to turn left
into the corner

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without hitting the brakes,
but with your foot flat

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to the floor at the same time?

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Well, this is what
Speedway drivers did.

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I mean, all you can see now
of a racing driver

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is a little bit of the top
of their head,

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sort of slightly bobbing around.

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In Speedway,
it’s mechanicalized warfare

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of the most purest kind.

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It’s wild, it’s big.

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JACK: And that was my biggest
surprise on the first night,

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was every other motor car
was throwing dirt in my face.

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[LAUGHTER]

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DAVID: My mum came from a very,
sort of, basic background.

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They met and Jack was racing
in midgets.

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MIKE: The lady who watched,
waited and worried,

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your wife, Betty.

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[TV STATIC]

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What was this bloke's
name again?

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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Sorry, Jack, mate,
I won’t let you down.

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[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

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In the very early 1950s,

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Jack took his Speedway
racing car

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to a local hill-climb.

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In his little, titchy
self-built Speedway car,

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he blew them all
into the weeds.

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PRESENTER: Hairpin bends
at high speeds

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call for steel wrists
and iron nerves.

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Sport is somewhere
where drive, dedication,

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bravery...
that’s what we celebrate.

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PRESENTER: It’s a great course
for the spectators too.

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You know, someone who’s fucking
brilliant at what they do

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and we can cheer them on.

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The organizers
actually disqualified his car

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because it wasn’t fitted
with front wheel brakes...

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PRESENTER: Hold everything,
he’s going over!

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[LAUGHS] ...and therefore didn’t
qualify for their purposes.

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PRESENTER: Not this time.

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So, Jack responded typically

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by fitting front wheel brakes,
taking it back there

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and doing it again.

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RON: Oh, it’s a Brabham '67.

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It’s a long while since
I’ve seen one of these.

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[RAIN PATTERING]

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NARRATOR:
Ron Tauranac was racing

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RALT open wheelers,

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which he’d built
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in their parent’s garage.

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It was clear they saw something
in each other.

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Kindred spirits.

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Well, he was a very good friend
of mine and we got on very well.

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I’ve never been
a very social person either.

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I realize it was a mistake now.

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But I needed someone
to train me.

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TONY: Ron and Jack were,
in some ways,

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two peas in a pod.

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Neither of them talked much

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but they could just look at
what each other were doing

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-and say, “Wow.”
-Ron designed the cars

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and Dad tested them.

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It was
an incredible partnership.

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Jack had his two-liter
Cooper Bristol.

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DOUG: And he fitted
a bigger engine

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to give it more "oomph"

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and he ended up corresponding
with John and Charles Cooper

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of the Cooper Car Company.

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NARRATOR: By the end of 1954,

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Jack had experienced everything
that Speedway

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and Hill-Climb had to offer.

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And while he may not have yet
had his sights set

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on challenging
the European legends

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of motorsport,

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the hobbyist from Hurstville
knew he’d be foolish

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if he didn’t pursue
his clear talent

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behind the wheel.

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DOUG: And Jack realized
that to progress

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in the motor-racing world,

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he really needed
to be in Britain.

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PRESENTER: When he hears
the booming tones of Big Ben,

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no English-speaking visitor
feels a real stranger in London.

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The chimes from Westminster
penetrate to the four corners

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of the globe.

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And Big Ben has become
everyone's town clock.

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DOUG: When Jack first came
to the UK in 1955,

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he kissed his wife goodbye

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and his child goodbye,

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and found himself surrounded by,
really, a fast-developing hotbed

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of motor-racing development.

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MAN: We, as loyal citizens,
must also do our part.

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DOUG: British motor racing
had been nowhere before the war.

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TV NARRATOR: Silence...

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DOUG: Conditions were so bad

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that there were
worse shortages here

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than there had ever been
at any time.

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And a number of people
just got so fed up

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with this turgid, gray,
post-war Britain...

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[CROWD CHANTING]

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...that effectively
they said, “Oh, to hell with it.

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Let’s go motor racing
and have some fun.”

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[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

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DOUG: The British manner
of going motor racing,

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was to start building
racing cars,

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striving to surpass
the dominant Ferrari

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and Maserati.

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NARRATOR: En route to England,
Jack made the pilgrimage

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to Ferrari.

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And they closed the door
in his face.

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He knew he probably appeared
to them like a chancer

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from Down Under,

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but the experience
stung him deeply

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and he loved overtaking Ferrari
for the rest of his career.

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Have you heard
from Jack lately?

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Yes, we’ve heard
a couple of times.

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I rang him up after Silverstone

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and we get a letter
occasionally.

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MIKE: Then comes your first race
at Goodwood.

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But you come
to an embarrassing halt

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three laps from the finish.

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What happened?

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I’m afraid I ran out of petrol.

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[LAUGHTER]

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NARRATOR: But Jack
was quickly progressing.

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In his first year in England,
he secured a seat

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in the Bristol Team at Le Mans,

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where 83 spectators were killed.

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GRAYSON: I mean,
when we look at sport,

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we’re living vicariously
through the sports stars

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we’re following.

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We want to see a crash

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because we can go through
the whole drama of the crash,

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but we’re not going to die.

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We can enjoy it, you know,
we want to rubberneck it

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and we want to see
that the ragged edge is there.

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ANNOUNCER: Drivers sprint
for their cars

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at the start of the Ireland...

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NARRATOR:
Jack then took Betty to

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the follow-up Sports Car Enduro

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in Northern Ireland.

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ANNOUNCER: Stirling Moss,
in a Mercedes,

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is one of the first away

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on the seven-and-a-half-mile
Dunlop Circuit.

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NARRATOR: He’d only been
in the UK for six months

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and he was already
wheel to wheel

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with the immortals of racing.

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ANNOUNCER:
Caught in a trial,

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Fangio Mercedes,
Hawthorn Jaguar.

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NARRATOR: But it had been
a tough race for Jack.

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ANNOUNCER: At this spot,
in a few ghastly seconds,

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two drivers lost their lives.

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NARRATOR:
He and his co-driver,

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Jim Meyers,

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had tossed a coin to see
who would start.

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His co-driver won the toss
and was incinerated

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within the first few laps.

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ANDREW: I have seen death
too often to believe in death.

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It is not an ending,
but a withdrawal.

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As one who is finishing
a long journey stills the motor,

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turns off the lights,

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steps from the car
and walks up the path

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to the home that awaits him.

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JOHN: He was fantastic
from the start.

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A little wild,
but everyone could see

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that he had it.

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MIKE: One of the greatest names
in motor racing, from England.

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This Is Your Life
has flown in John Cooper

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of the famous Cooper Cars.

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[APPLAUSE]

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DOUG: As John Cooper said to me,

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“We didn't really employ
Jack Brabham.

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He just appeared in the factory
one day and became a fixture."

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He’s a brilliant engineer
and he could set a car up

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for a race.

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He’d just pitch in
and get on with something.

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MIKE: Is it true that Jack
was also a practical joker?

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JOHN: Oh, yeah.

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He could make you anything
from a pair of pliers

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to a guided missile.

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TOM: He’s just such
a natural engineer.

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He looks at things
and understands so quickly

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what’s wrong with them
or what’s right with them.

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HUGHIE: He was one of the only
F1 drivers that probably knew

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everything about the race car,

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from the chassis to the engine
to the setting up.

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He knew all the parts.

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Well, Jack Brabham
was a remarkable man.

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In a funny sort of way,
Jack never looked like

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a racing driver.

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I mean, Stirling Moss
looked like a racing driver,

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Jim Clark looked like
a racing driver.

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But it was fairly obvious,
fairly early on,

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that he was a goer.

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And it wasn’t really
until the Cooper Car Company

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picked him up

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that Jack’s feet really
hit the ground.

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[ENGINES REVVING]

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PAUL: This is
a "start/finish" line,

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the beginning and the end.

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Doesn’t make any difference
whether it’s painted on asphalt

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or drawn in dirt with a stick,

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it's become a symbol
of our civilization.

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Sometimes I think
that a line is drawn

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and then some people
get off on a corner

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and figure out what the hell
they’re going to do with it.

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[SERENE MUSIC PLAYING]

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PAUL: The place is Europe.

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Or it can be Canada,
South Africa, the United States.

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But more than glamorous names
and places,

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it is a state of mind,

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an expression
of the ultimate in racing,

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the Formula One
World Driving Championships.

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The Grand Prix.

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This is the top.

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ANNOUNCER: There’s a strong
British contingent

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at the start
of the Monaco Grand Prix.

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Monaco... very small circuit

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and, in the fifties,
very big cars.

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ANNOUNCER: Moss and Brooks
in Van Walls,

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and Collins
and Hawthorn in Ferrari.

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TONY: Jack turns up
in this tiny, tiny Cooper...

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MAN:
Here’s Mike Hawthorn’s Ferrari.

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TONY: They’d never heard
of this guy Jack Brabham,

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running third
in the Monaco Grand Prix.

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ANNOUNCER: Everyone expects
a rip-roaring finish.

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MIKE: The Australian’s
spectacular cornering

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gave the crowds a thrill.

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TONY:
And he runs out of petrol.

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He pushes it all the way
to the end

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and made a star
out of the driver,

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Jack Brabham.

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He was so lethargic
in so many different ways.

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And then he got
into a racing car.

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ANNOUNCER:
Brabham in complete command.

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Everybody was astounded
at his Speedway style.

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MICHAEL: Coopers in those days
were world champions

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that took on the might
of these big teams,

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and my father and him
just got on so well.

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Jack became a huge friend
of John Cooper's and vice versa.

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One of his biggest assets,
however, um...

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Oh, I’ve forgotten his name.
Uh, his engineer...

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Ron Tauranac.

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Lovely, lovely,
lovely, lovely guy.

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RON: When I was building
racing cars, in England...

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I would design
the ultimate racing car

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and then backtrack it

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so I could build something
that was just good enough

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to beat the opposition.

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GREG: So, what was the best car
that you ever made...

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-in your mind?
-The one I’m going to do next.

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DOUG: A lot of the modifications
that Jack wanted made

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had been communicated to him

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by his pen pal
back in Australia,

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the engineer Ron Tauranac.

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[BIRDS CHIRPING]

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Jack Brabham
and Ron Tauranac

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just were like that.

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Ron Tauranac and Jack
made a formidable team.

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By remote control effectively,
from twelve thousand miles away,

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Ron Tauranac was having
very sound engineering ideas

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that he was communicating
to Jack.

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He would come up
with some rough sketches,

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he'd air-mail it
over to Australia,

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Ron would have a look at it,

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be on the phone,
he’d then do all the drawings.

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The drawings would then
come back.

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John was finding some way

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of smuggling all these
modifications past his dad

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without his dad noticing.

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That was the great thing.

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DAVID: And he’d make
the rear suspension,

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or the gearbox
and the mounting and everything.

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I mean, it was almost like
a secret society

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with the two of them.

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And it was that, sort of,
cheerful, in-house

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“Let’s do this, let’s try this,”

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and the sheer enthusiasm
for going racing

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that enabled Cooper
to establish what became known

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as the "Rear Engine Revolution."

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[FANFARE]

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STIRLING: My name
is Stirling Moss

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and I drove all types of cars
in all types of races.

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[WHIMSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

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PRESENTER:
What is it that makes a man

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spend countless hours
making toy racing cars?

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For the modeler is none other
than Stirling Moss,

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possibly the world’s
greatest racing driver.

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Here at his father’s pig farm,
in Turing, Hertfordshire,

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let’s watch him relaxing
with a miniature track.

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Rival in this grim struggle,
is his wife, Katie.

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MIKE: You say,
that man is my ultimate goal.

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Beat him
and I’ve achieved something.

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STIRLING: Well, I wish you
every success

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and please give your family
all the best as well.

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Cheerio.

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NARRATOR: The logical favorite
of the 1959 season, Moss,

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no doubt had his eye
on taking out the championship.

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But, on his travels,
Jack had taken a protege

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under this wing for Cooper.

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The young Bruce McLaren.

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PRESENTER: For many years,
motor racing has been

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a popular sport in New Zealand,

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attracting drivers
with a taste for thrills

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and mechanics
with a taste for tinkering.

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DOUG: Jack was so impressed
by young Bruce

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that effectively
he became his mentor.

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PRESENTER: After his
wobbly efforts, Bruce decides

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to stick to car racing.

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He says it's safer.

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Jack was the person who
made things happen for Bruce.

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And in 1959, he joined Jack

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to start racing regularly
at Grand Prix level.

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[GENTLE GUITAR MUSIC PLAYING]

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NARRATOR:
The first race was Monaco.

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It was the crown jewel
of the Grand Prix circuit

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and seen as a rite of passage
for drivers.

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Explaining Monte Carlo
as a racing track is, uh...

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ANNOUNCER:
The Monaco Grand Prix

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is known as "The Race
of a Thousand Corners."

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It’s a very,
very difficult circuit.

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You know, 21 corners, 78 laps,

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constantly coming at you,
so narrow...

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You were off before
the starting flag even fell.

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ANNOUNCER: And they're off!

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A hundred laps
of a two-mile circuit

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through the Monte Carlo streets.

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A testing race
for cars and drivers.

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With speed,
you stop having to be conscious.

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You have to rely on instinct.

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ANNOUNCER: Just watch
Moss's beautiful control

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as he takes a double bend.

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You are not driving
at five-tenths.

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You’re driving at nine-tenths
and sometimes ten-tenths.

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ANNOUNCER:
Brabham is in second place now.

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TONY: Cooper finally
had an engine

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that was as good
as everyone else's.

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But the radiators
were blowing hot air

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straight onto his feet.

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He was burning up,
the pedals were red hot.

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He was scared
to touch the brake.

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ANNOUNCER: Stirling’s
Cooper-Climax

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developed transmission trouble.

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Bad luck.

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NARRATOR:
And with Stirling gone,

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Jack drove faster
than he ever had before.

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ANNOUNCER: Last lap and
ahead of Tony Brooks' Ferrari

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was Jack Brabham.

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NARRATOR: Securing
his first Grand Prix race win.

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This was shaping up
to be a promising season.

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[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

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[FIRE CRACKLING]

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[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

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00:22:04,047 --> 00:22:05,828
Jack was someone
who you couldn’t

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particularly predict.

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ANNOUNCER: A perfect day,
a great crowd at Aintree

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for the British Grand Prix.

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All you would predict

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is that he would do
the unpredictable.

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ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham
was driving a Cooper-Climax.

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TONY: So the British Grand Prix.

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He wasn’t necessarily
the fastest driver out there,

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00:22:20,788 --> 00:22:22,954
I think everyone agreed
that Stirling Moss was that.

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Jack certainly was as competent
as any driver out there.

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TONY: Stirling Moss, as always,
went out flat-out.

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ANNOUNCER: Stirling Moss
drove his BRM superbly.

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TONY: Jack started
swinging the back out,

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for no other reason
than to even up the tire wear.

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ANNOUNCER: Brabham shot
ahead, determined to keep

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the number 12 out in front.

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00:22:42,214 --> 00:22:44,188
Stirling Moss
battled into second place.

494
00:22:44,288 --> 00:22:46,453
Stirling Moss had to stop
and change his tires.

495
00:22:46,553 --> 00:22:48,512
ANNOUNCER: A delay fatal
to his winning chance.

496
00:22:48,973 --> 00:22:50,984
Jack kept going
and managed to win the race.

497
00:22:51,084 --> 00:22:52,481
ANNOUNCER:
Jack Brabham won,

498
00:22:52,490 --> 00:22:53,864
covering the 225 miles

499
00:22:53,964 --> 00:22:56,691
at an average
of just under 90 miles an hour.

500
00:22:57,458 --> 00:22:59,240
DOUG: One of the most
extraordinary things

501
00:22:59,340 --> 00:23:00,661
about Jack Brabham

502
00:23:00,761 --> 00:23:03,733
was how unselfish he could be.

503
00:23:03,833 --> 00:23:05,906
Jack, what a great sport
you were.

504
00:23:06,405 --> 00:23:07,880
How that time in New Zealand,

505
00:23:07,980 --> 00:23:09,492
you lent me
your spare back axle.

506
00:23:09,592 --> 00:23:14,738
He supported and mentored people
who would likely become rivals.

507
00:23:15,160 --> 00:23:16,558
I’ve known Jack for a long time

508
00:23:16,658 --> 00:23:20,152
and he’s helped me,
well, 100 percent in my racing.

509
00:23:20,843 --> 00:23:23,085
MIKE: You win the Monaco
and British Grand Prix.

510
00:23:23,185 --> 00:23:25,120
Moss wins the Portuguese
and Italian.

511
00:23:25,220 --> 00:23:27,371
Tony Brooks
takes the French and German.

512
00:23:27,716 --> 00:23:29,382
TONY: Jack was one
of three people who could win

513
00:23:29,391 --> 00:23:31,072
the World Championship,

514
00:23:31,172 --> 00:23:32,570
and there was
just one race to go.

515
00:23:32,670 --> 00:23:34,144
And strangely, it was in America

516
00:23:34,244 --> 00:23:35,910
where they had never
had a Grand Prix before

517
00:23:36,010 --> 00:23:37,331
and, really,
it was a second-rate track.

518
00:23:37,431 --> 00:23:39,077
ANNOUNCER: The US Grand Prix
attracts the world’s

519
00:23:39,087 --> 00:23:40,748
best auto-racing drivers.

520
00:23:40,848 --> 00:23:44,419
MIKE: It’s December 12, 1959,
when you line up on the grid.

521
00:23:44,727 --> 00:23:47,698
TONY: As always, Stirling Moss
went flying out of the gate.

522
00:23:47,798 --> 00:23:49,503
ANNOUNCER: The bumpy track
was more than just a rumor.

523
00:23:49,603 --> 00:23:50,924
But he over-cooked it.

524
00:23:51,024 --> 00:23:53,765
Yeah, it was something funny
with the gearbox.

525
00:23:53,865 --> 00:23:55,570
ANNOUNCER: ...and Australia’s
Jack Brabham

526
00:23:55,670 --> 00:23:57,935
and New Zealander Bruce McLaren
in the lead.

527
00:23:58,857 --> 00:24:00,255
TONY: Jack led most of the race

528
00:24:00,355 --> 00:24:02,712
with Bruce McLaren
tucked in behind him.

529
00:24:02,812 --> 00:24:04,402
MIKE: The championship
is in your grasp,

530
00:24:04,502 --> 00:24:05,745
and then two corners
from the end,

531
00:24:05,845 --> 00:24:07,665
it happens again,
didn’t it, Jack?

532
00:24:07,765 --> 00:24:09,124
He ran out of fuel.

533
00:24:09,224 --> 00:24:11,544
I run out of petrol.
[LAUGHS]

534
00:24:11,644 --> 00:24:13,694
He’s 800 meters
from the finish.

535
00:24:13,794 --> 00:24:15,921
MIKE: You decide to finish,
by pushing your car

536
00:24:16,021 --> 00:24:17,226
uphill to the finishing line.

537
00:24:17,326 --> 00:24:18,954
TONY: Bruce was about
to stop behind him

538
00:24:19,054 --> 00:24:20,682
and Jack said,
“No, get on with it.

539
00:24:20,782 --> 00:24:22,333
If you win,
I win the Championship.”

540
00:24:22,433 --> 00:24:25,021
MIKE: You crossed the line,
surrounded by a police escort

541
00:24:25,121 --> 00:24:26,404
and screaming fans.

542
00:24:26,504 --> 00:24:28,170
DOUG: Jack
and the little Coopers

543
00:24:28,270 --> 00:24:30,282
had beaten Ferrari and Maserati

544
00:24:30,382 --> 00:24:32,240
and put them squarely
in their place.

545
00:24:32,340 --> 00:24:34,083
TONY: First Australian
to be World Champion.

546
00:24:34,183 --> 00:24:35,714
The first man
in a rear-engine car

547
00:24:35,724 --> 00:24:37,255
to be World Champion.

548
00:24:37,562 --> 00:24:39,497
He was a pretty happy boy.

549
00:24:39,597 --> 00:24:43,130
[TV STATIC]

550
00:24:45,319 --> 00:24:47,239
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

551
00:24:50,502 --> 00:24:53,075
NARRATOR: Jack had well
and truly arrived.

552
00:24:53,689 --> 00:24:56,761
He’d been anointed
into the "Realm of Champions"

553
00:24:57,376 --> 00:25:01,000
and 1960 was now a chance
to further establish himself

554
00:25:01,100 --> 00:25:03,059
among the heroes of motorsport.

555
00:25:03,443 --> 00:25:06,184
MAN: Fangio and Ferrari,
Moss and Farina.

556
00:25:06,284 --> 00:25:08,949
TONY: At the end of the day,
to go fast,

557
00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:12,174
you need some serious gonads
between your legs.

558
00:25:12,274 --> 00:25:14,286
[ENGINES REVVING]

559
00:25:14,386 --> 00:25:16,306
Men like drama, don’t they?

560
00:25:18,687 --> 00:25:22,273
You know, they love to do
everything at its most risky.

561
00:25:22,373 --> 00:25:24,231
[PROPELLERS WHIRRING]

562
00:25:24,331 --> 00:25:26,727
So, they start
the 1960 season

563
00:25:26,827 --> 00:25:28,839
with the 1959 car.

564
00:25:28,939 --> 00:25:31,373
Charlie Cooper,
the old man, says,

565
00:25:31,473 --> 00:25:33,792
“No, I don’t want to spend money
when we’re winning.”

566
00:25:33,892 --> 00:25:35,827
NARRATOR: But Jack knew
they’d have to innovate

567
00:25:35,927 --> 00:25:37,939
to stay ahead
of Ferrari and Lotus.

568
00:25:38,039 --> 00:25:40,358
And he and John Cooper,
and Bruce McLaren

569
00:25:40,458 --> 00:25:43,722
all worked on this new car,
the Cooper Lowline.

570
00:25:44,989 --> 00:25:46,579
NARRATOR: Jack’s instincts
were right,

571
00:25:46,679 --> 00:25:49,689
with Bruce winning Argentina
and Jack picking up a win

572
00:25:49,789 --> 00:25:50,764
at the Dutch Grand Prix.

573
00:25:50,864 --> 00:25:52,299
MAN: What are your thoughts
when you’re driving

574
00:25:52,309 --> 00:25:53,798
a fast car like this, Jack?

575
00:25:53,898 --> 00:25:55,065
JACK: Well, Vic,

576
00:25:55,165 --> 00:25:57,330
it’s very exciting
driving a motor car like this.

577
00:25:57,430 --> 00:25:59,212
GRAYSON: Empirically,
what a car is,

578
00:25:59,312 --> 00:26:02,245
it’s a vehicle with an engine
and four wheels

579
00:26:02,345 --> 00:26:04,265
that carries passengers.

580
00:26:04,611 --> 00:26:08,681
But, of course, it's an
incredibly potent symbol.

581
00:26:10,716 --> 00:26:13,496
A car isn’t just this thing
they drive around in.

582
00:26:13,596 --> 00:26:15,224
It is them.

583
00:26:15,324 --> 00:26:16,990
MARK: When the helmet
does go on,

584
00:26:17,090 --> 00:26:19,140
and you’re
in fighter pilot mode,

585
00:26:19,240 --> 00:26:21,905
and man and machine on the limit
going into combat,

586
00:26:22,005 --> 00:26:23,925
you’re very much
at one with the car.

587
00:26:25,038 --> 00:26:28,241
Spa was a particularly
difficult one.

588
00:26:28,341 --> 00:26:30,813
ANNOUNCER: Stirling Moss
and Jack Brabham, number two.

589
00:26:30,913 --> 00:26:33,655
Ditches, barbed wire fences
beside the track.

590
00:26:33,755 --> 00:26:35,344
Basically, every hazard
you could build

591
00:26:35,353 --> 00:26:36,995
into a racetrack

592
00:26:37,095 --> 00:26:38,263
was there at Spa.

593
00:26:38,363 --> 00:26:40,643
PRESENTER: It’s rare for
anything to go wrong so early,

594
00:26:40,743 --> 00:26:42,064
but a triple crash came here.

595
00:26:42,164 --> 00:26:43,907
Two drivers die in the race.

596
00:26:44,007 --> 00:26:45,520
ANNOUNCER:
Brabham, now faster than Moss...

597
00:26:45,620 --> 00:26:47,747
And the race kept going
and Jack won.

598
00:26:47,847 --> 00:26:49,475
PRESENTER: Brabham, however,
roared away to victory

599
00:26:49,575 --> 00:26:50,550
in the second heat...

600
00:26:50,650 --> 00:26:53,123
NARRATOR: Despite the tragedy,
Jack kept his focus razor sharp

601
00:26:53,223 --> 00:26:54,812
for his next outing at Reims.

602
00:26:54,912 --> 00:26:55,906
ANNOUNCER:
From the very first lap,

603
00:26:55,915 --> 00:26:56,886
it’s an all-out battle

604
00:26:56,986 --> 00:26:58,498
between the British
and Italian machines.

605
00:26:58,598 --> 00:26:59,842
NARRATOR:
With the lead exchanging

606
00:26:59,942 --> 00:27:02,300
in impossibly tight
slipstream battles.

607
00:27:02,400 --> 00:27:04,143
ANNOUNCER: Brabham’s Cooper
and Phil Hill’s Ferrari

608
00:27:04,243 --> 00:27:05,448
battle desperately to get a...

609
00:27:05,548 --> 00:27:08,582
For men, the traffic
is the last Serengeti.

610
00:27:09,350 --> 00:27:11,592
It’s where they’re in conflict
with others.

611
00:27:11,692 --> 00:27:13,589
They’re chasing...

612
00:27:13,689 --> 00:27:15,086
They’re having to negotiate
through the forest

613
00:27:15,095 --> 00:27:16,492
of the streets.

614
00:27:17,298 --> 00:27:21,215
You know, so all the kind
of ancient, primal, instincts,

615
00:27:21,752 --> 00:27:23,265
you can play it out in a car.

616
00:27:23,365 --> 00:27:25,415
ANNOUNCER: It’s Jack Brabham
who gets the upper hand,

617
00:27:25,515 --> 00:27:28,395
streaking ahead for his third
consecutive Grand Prix victory.

618
00:27:28,741 --> 00:27:31,521
NARRATOR: And after Reims,
Jack made it five in a row...

619
00:27:31,621 --> 00:27:33,364
ANNOUNCER: Brabham’s
Cooper-Climax well in front.

620
00:27:33,464 --> 00:27:34,745
NARRATOR: ...with wins at
the British and Portuguese

621
00:27:34,755 --> 00:27:36,013
Grand Prix.

622
00:27:36,113 --> 00:27:38,532
ANNOUNCER: One more
for an overcrowded mantelpiece.

623
00:27:38,955 --> 00:27:40,007
NARRATOR: He’d done it.

624
00:27:40,107 --> 00:27:42,487
Back to back
World Championships.

625
00:27:43,179 --> 00:27:45,114
MIKE: Moss, Hawthorn, Collins...

626
00:27:45,214 --> 00:27:46,611
Jack, you faced
an impressive rollcall

627
00:27:46,620 --> 00:27:48,017
of racing greats.

628
00:27:51,703 --> 00:27:54,329
[CROWD CHEERING]

629
00:27:54,429 --> 00:28:01,264
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

630
00:28:01,763 --> 00:28:03,775
In 1961 he branched out.

631
00:28:03,875 --> 00:28:05,910
Ron Tauranac joined him
in England.

632
00:28:06,486 --> 00:28:10,418
He gave me
a thousand pounds

633
00:28:10,518 --> 00:28:15,064
to move the family to England

634
00:28:15,164 --> 00:28:17,022
for a year’s trial.

635
00:28:17,122 --> 00:28:20,632
Although he’d won back to back
World Championships

636
00:28:20,732 --> 00:28:22,398
in Cooper cars,

637
00:28:22,498 --> 00:28:25,470
some rival car constructors

638
00:28:25,570 --> 00:28:30,462
were actually building
more sophisticated cars,

639
00:28:30,562 --> 00:28:32,635
with greater
performance potential

640
00:28:33,058 --> 00:28:35,761
than Cooper, really,
could shake a stick at.

641
00:28:35,861 --> 00:28:37,949
PRESENTER: ...to design each
year as perfect and advanced

642
00:28:38,049 --> 00:28:40,238
a piece of engineering
as science can devise.

643
00:28:40,584 --> 00:28:43,517
I just always concerned
with what I was doing

644
00:28:43,617 --> 00:28:47,994
and staying ahead
of the terrible opposition.

645
00:28:48,417 --> 00:28:50,736
JOHN: This is where we build
our racing cars.

646
00:28:50,836 --> 00:28:53,462
And there are literally
hundreds of component parts

647
00:28:53,562 --> 00:28:55,190
that go to building
a racing car.

648
00:28:55,290 --> 00:28:57,148
DOUG: It’s a brutal comparison

649
00:28:57,248 --> 00:28:59,567
but Cooper have been described

650
00:28:59,667 --> 00:29:03,868
as a bunch of blacksmiths
meeting in Chapman

651
00:29:03,968 --> 00:29:05,942
and Lotus a bunch
of technologists.

652
00:29:06,042 --> 00:29:09,459
May your success continue,
and good luck for 1961.

653
00:29:09,766 --> 00:29:11,686
Thank you, Vic.

654
00:29:14,259 --> 00:29:18,905
[ELECTRONIC MUSIC PLAYING]

655
00:29:21,209 --> 00:29:23,259
PAUL: I’ve been up to Frisco
for the Sprints,

656
00:29:23,359 --> 00:29:25,256
out to Charlotte
to see the Stocks,

657
00:29:25,356 --> 00:29:26,715
into the Glen
for the Grand Prix,

658
00:29:26,815 --> 00:29:29,364
Indy for the Drag
and for the "Big One."

659
00:29:29,464 --> 00:29:31,169
I paid 200 million dollars

660
00:29:31,269 --> 00:29:32,705
to sit with 40 million fans.

661
00:29:32,805 --> 00:29:34,433
I’ve eaten twenty tons
of hot dogs

662
00:29:34,533 --> 00:29:36,468
and drunk a Rose Bowl
full of pop.

663
00:29:36,568 --> 00:29:39,448
I’m this year’s spectator,
"Race Fan USA."

664
00:29:39,909 --> 00:29:41,267
PRESENTER: When the balloons
go up beside the track

665
00:29:41,277 --> 00:29:42,650
at Indianapolis,

666
00:29:42,750 --> 00:29:43,994
spectators know it’s time

667
00:29:44,094 --> 00:29:46,221
for the start of the world’s
most chancy motor race.

668
00:29:46,321 --> 00:29:48,986
DAVID: In 1961, at Indianapolis,

669
00:29:49,086 --> 00:29:52,826
Jack went there with
his Formula One Cooper-Climax,

670
00:29:52,926 --> 00:29:56,973
which absolutely outraged
and upset the ultra-conservative

671
00:29:57,073 --> 00:29:59,392
American Speedway fraternity.

672
00:29:59,492 --> 00:30:03,039
Brabham, what is the nature
of the fuel used?

673
00:30:03,139 --> 00:30:04,555
NARRATOR:
The Indy regulators came

674
00:30:04,565 --> 00:30:05,996
to watch the comically small car

675
00:30:06,096 --> 00:30:07,647
with its engine
in the wrong spot.

676
00:30:07,747 --> 00:30:09,260
They had the engine in the back,

677
00:30:09,360 --> 00:30:11,487
which was complete
anathema to them.

678
00:30:11,587 --> 00:30:13,753
But, the second thing,
it was painted green!

679
00:30:13,853 --> 00:30:17,539
And at Indianapolis,
green cars were killer cars.

680
00:30:18,076 --> 00:30:20,664
'Cause they’re a threat
to my territory,

681
00:30:20,764 --> 00:30:22,008
to my very being

682
00:30:22,108 --> 00:30:23,659
that is my shiny,

683
00:30:23,759 --> 00:30:26,524
you know, phallus
that I’m driving along in.

684
00:30:27,484 --> 00:30:29,803
PRESENTER: The big thrill
wasn’t long in coming.

685
00:30:29,903 --> 00:30:31,416
A six-car pileup.

686
00:30:31,516 --> 00:30:33,182
NARRATOR: But within
a couple of years,

687
00:30:33,282 --> 00:30:36,407
all Indy 500 cars
were rear-engined.

688
00:30:36,507 --> 00:30:39,710
He showed
that Formula One technology

689
00:30:39,810 --> 00:30:42,075
could work at Indianapolis.

690
00:30:43,649 --> 00:30:45,316
JOHN: After Jack won
the World Championship,

691
00:30:45,416 --> 00:30:48,234
he told me he had an invite
to go and see Mr. Ferrari.

692
00:30:48,334 --> 00:30:50,116
So he flew down to Italy

693
00:30:50,216 --> 00:30:52,174
and was interviewed
by Mr. Ferrari.

694
00:30:53,940 --> 00:30:55,990
And he said
he had quite a good offer.

695
00:30:56,090 --> 00:30:58,087
But he went home
and thought about it.

696
00:30:58,510 --> 00:30:59,677
He said, "I turned it down."

697
00:30:59,777 --> 00:31:01,135
He said, “Because,
the only reason that Colin

698
00:31:01,145 --> 00:31:02,480
and Bruce and myself

699
00:31:02,580 --> 00:31:04,246
went racing was to beat Ferrari,

700
00:31:04,346 --> 00:31:06,051
and I couldn’t
possibly join them.”

701
00:31:06,151 --> 00:31:08,508
NARRATOR: Enzo Ferrari
once told John Cooper

702
00:31:08,608 --> 00:31:11,081
that he'd never build
a rear-engine race car.

703
00:31:11,181 --> 00:31:14,230
But, in '61, he did
and it was a killer.

704
00:31:14,330 --> 00:31:16,956
DAVID: During the heart
of that season,

705
00:31:17,056 --> 00:31:18,837
Ferrari just ran riot

706
00:31:18,937 --> 00:31:22,623
with their V6-engined,
shark-nosed cars.

707
00:31:24,121 --> 00:31:25,749
Right, cue him.

708
00:31:25,849 --> 00:31:27,073
So, I’ve flown back from Rome
to bring you

709
00:31:27,082 --> 00:31:28,283
these special pictures

710
00:31:28,383 --> 00:31:30,433
direct from the racetrack
at Monza.

711
00:31:30,533 --> 00:31:31,739
NARRATOR:
One of the few highlights

712
00:31:31,839 --> 00:31:34,105
was when Jack
was leading at Monza.

713
00:31:34,488 --> 00:31:35,694
Congratulations, Phil.

714
00:31:35,794 --> 00:31:37,307
What sort of a race
did you have?

715
00:31:37,407 --> 00:31:39,111
Peter, this was
a real tough one.

716
00:31:39,211 --> 00:31:41,876
NARRATOR: But as on so many
occasions that season,

717
00:31:41,976 --> 00:31:43,105
he broke down.

718
00:31:43,205 --> 00:31:45,562
PHIL: This Monza track
has got some steep bankings.

719
00:31:45,662 --> 00:31:47,828
It’s got fast straights,
hairpins, the lot.

720
00:31:47,928 --> 00:31:48,883
PRESENTER:
Then in the second lap,

721
00:31:48,893 --> 00:31:49,671
approaching the curve

722
00:31:49,771 --> 00:31:51,591
on the inner section
of the road circuit,

723
00:31:51,691 --> 00:31:52,935
it happened.

724
00:31:53,035 --> 00:31:54,317
Hold it. Hold it, Mike.

725
00:31:54,417 --> 00:31:56,851
We’ve got the pictures
on "three" in the wrong order.

726
00:31:56,951 --> 00:31:58,886
Can you check them?
It should be Phil Hill first,

727
00:31:58,986 --> 00:32:00,691
then the banking,
then the checkered...

728
00:32:00,791 --> 00:32:01,997
[EXPLOSIONS]

729
00:32:02,097 --> 00:32:04,017
[SCREAMING]

730
00:32:04,324 --> 00:32:05,529
PRESENTER:
von Trips' Ferrari,

731
00:32:05,538 --> 00:32:06,720
after touching Clark's Lotus,

732
00:32:06,820 --> 00:32:08,678
had crashed through a fence
and rebounded.

733
00:32:08,778 --> 00:32:10,521
Wolfgang von Trips lay dead

734
00:32:10,621 --> 00:32:12,825
and death came to 13 spectators

735
00:32:12,925 --> 00:32:14,845
in this appalling crash.

736
00:32:21,833 --> 00:32:23,039
MAN: All right. Magi, sorry.

737
00:32:23,139 --> 00:32:25,059
Just give me a minute,
I'll fix it.

738
00:32:25,750 --> 00:32:27,670
Jolly good.
Let's go again then.

739
00:32:28,438 --> 00:32:30,834
[ENGINES REVVING]

740
00:32:30,934 --> 00:32:32,561
MAN: Do you think
the combination

741
00:32:32,570 --> 00:32:34,213
of Brabham and Cooper

742
00:32:34,313 --> 00:32:35,825
is going to bring you

743
00:32:35,925 --> 00:32:38,229
the World Championship
hat-trick this year?

744
00:32:38,997 --> 00:32:41,109
PRESENTER: It was the Ferraris
who triumphed once more.

745
00:32:41,455 --> 00:32:44,043
NARRATOR: And after back
to back championship wins,

746
00:32:44,143 --> 00:32:46,615
Jack had well and truly
fallen back to earth.

747
00:32:46,715 --> 00:32:49,726
DOUG: By the end of
the 1961 season,

748
00:32:49,826 --> 00:32:51,492
Jack fully appreciated

749
00:32:51,592 --> 00:32:54,548
that many of the things
that he wanted to do

750
00:32:54,932 --> 00:32:56,599
would be impossible

751
00:32:56,699 --> 00:33:00,731
against the increasing
conservatism of Charlie Cooper.

752
00:33:01,191 --> 00:33:04,970
RON: When I went to England,
I worked for Jack's company

753
00:33:05,070 --> 00:33:07,427
during normal working hours.

754
00:33:07,527 --> 00:33:08,656
And overnight,

755
00:33:08,756 --> 00:33:11,728
I spent the time designing
our first Formula One car.

756
00:33:11,828 --> 00:33:14,070
They were building
a Formula Junior car

757
00:33:14,170 --> 00:33:15,721
for a private customer.

758
00:33:15,821 --> 00:33:17,411
RON: Which was really mine,

759
00:33:17,511 --> 00:33:20,214
I wasn't paid for that at all.
I just drew it in a night.

760
00:33:20,314 --> 00:33:23,247
And the opportunity was there
to go independent.

761
00:33:23,347 --> 00:33:27,110
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

762
00:33:32,255 --> 00:33:33,960
PRESENTER: Surrounded
by English countryside

763
00:33:34,060 --> 00:33:36,149
is the racing car factory
of Jack Brabham.

764
00:33:36,249 --> 00:33:38,990
JACK: Well, I came over,
principally, in the first place,

765
00:33:39,090 --> 00:33:40,373
to go motor racing.

766
00:33:40,473 --> 00:33:44,366
And after motor racing
for quite a few years,

767
00:33:44,466 --> 00:33:47,591
the interest
in the mechanical side of it

768
00:33:47,691 --> 00:33:49,319
has always been very great.

769
00:33:49,419 --> 00:33:53,451
And the obvious answer was to
eventually build our own cars.

770
00:33:53,873 --> 00:33:55,885
DOUG: A friend of theirs
pointed out

771
00:33:55,985 --> 00:34:01,300
that the French pronunciation
of MRD, merde,

772
00:34:01,400 --> 00:34:03,319
was very rude.

773
00:34:03,780 --> 00:34:06,445
In French, MRD means merde,

774
00:34:06,545 --> 00:34:08,465
which is covered all over
in shit.

775
00:34:09,502 --> 00:34:12,934
...and said, you know,
you have the perfect name.

776
00:34:13,034 --> 00:34:15,507
The perfect marketing brand.

777
00:34:15,607 --> 00:34:22,134
[SLOW PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

778
00:34:24,477 --> 00:34:28,370
No. Why would it be
Brabham Racing Developments

779
00:34:28,470 --> 00:34:31,596
when it-- when I was
designing the cars

780
00:34:31,696 --> 00:34:34,460
and was responsible
for the build of them?

781
00:34:35,420 --> 00:34:37,724
[TAPE WHIRRING]

782
00:34:38,530 --> 00:34:41,310
You know, we should have had
a neutral name,

783
00:34:41,410 --> 00:34:43,330
or I should have been
involved in it.

784
00:34:44,559 --> 00:34:46,379
BERNIE: I think in the end,
I mean,

785
00:34:46,479 --> 00:34:48,299
both of them wanted to win

786
00:34:48,399 --> 00:34:51,432
and were doing whatever they
thought was necessary to win.

787
00:34:51,816 --> 00:34:53,636
DOUG:
Motor Racing Developments

788
00:34:53,736 --> 00:34:56,670
thereafter produced
Brabham racing cars.

789
00:34:56,770 --> 00:35:00,356
And Brabham racing cars
became the thing to have

790
00:35:00,456 --> 00:35:03,274
for Formula Two racing,
Formula Three racing,

791
00:35:03,374 --> 00:35:06,830
and went on to the most
tremendous customer success.

792
00:35:12,052 --> 00:35:14,601
When you're married
to Jackie Oliver,

793
00:35:14,701 --> 00:35:16,944
who's a pretty quick man
in the Grand Prix Circuit,

794
00:35:17,044 --> 00:35:19,900
do you ever talk
about the danger at all?

795
00:35:20,000 --> 00:35:22,051
We don't really talk
about it to our husbands

796
00:35:22,151 --> 00:35:24,470
because we know they're
gonna go on racing.

797
00:35:24,570 --> 00:35:27,657
You have to let a boy or a man
do want they wanna do.

798
00:35:27,757 --> 00:35:30,306
One wife next to me started
screaming and yelling,

799
00:35:30,406 --> 00:35:32,457
so I sat there and I got scared.

800
00:35:32,557 --> 00:35:33,992
I never was afraid before.

801
00:35:34,092 --> 00:35:36,604
The best thing one can do
is make sure you're really,

802
00:35:36,704 --> 00:35:38,623
well, financially secure.

803
00:35:40,812 --> 00:35:43,039
I don't think it was easy
for my mom.

804
00:35:47,263 --> 00:35:51,195
If I look back and think,
the thing that really shaped her

805
00:35:51,295 --> 00:35:54,843
was the danger of
Grand Prix racing in the '60s.

806
00:35:54,943 --> 00:35:56,647
She was very nervous.

807
00:35:56,747 --> 00:35:59,489
Because men are stupid enough
to take risks.

808
00:35:59,589 --> 00:36:01,509
You know,
men are addicted to risks.

809
00:36:02,545 --> 00:36:04,542
Women are sensible,
you know.

810
00:36:04,849 --> 00:36:07,422
They don't, uh, wanna die.

811
00:36:08,574 --> 00:36:11,392
Betty was the
most nervous person

812
00:36:11,492 --> 00:36:12,583
in the team.

813
00:36:12,683 --> 00:36:15,946
I mean, she was
a nervous wreck, really.

814
00:36:17,290 --> 00:36:19,379
She was tough.
[LAUGHS]

815
00:36:19,479 --> 00:36:21,399
Wow, was she tough.

816
00:36:21,706 --> 00:36:24,371
I don't know how she went
and watched Jack every weekend.

817
00:36:24,471 --> 00:36:26,905
To go there and pretty much
every weekend

818
00:36:27,005 --> 00:36:28,925
someone was gonna die

819
00:36:29,501 --> 00:36:31,958
made them a different
breed of people.

820
00:36:32,266 --> 00:36:35,952
They went to a lot of funerals.
Very good friends of theirs.

821
00:36:36,451 --> 00:36:37,694
You know,
from within the paddock,

822
00:36:37,704 --> 00:36:38,947
all the drivers.

823
00:36:39,331 --> 00:36:42,763
And I think that probably
shaped her more than anything,

824
00:36:42,863 --> 00:36:45,566
was that fear of Jack
going out there

825
00:36:45,666 --> 00:36:47,586
and not coming back again.

826
00:36:48,278 --> 00:36:49,598
HUGHIE: But I think
that's probably

827
00:36:49,607 --> 00:36:50,942
what was the bottom line,

828
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:53,284
was that she now had three kids,
and, you know,

829
00:36:53,384 --> 00:36:54,897
the last thing you wanna do

830
00:36:54,997 --> 00:36:57,071
is have her husband
get wiped out in a race car.

831
00:36:58,568 --> 00:36:59,851
-RON: Ready to go?
-MAN: Yes.

832
00:36:59,951 --> 00:37:02,270
Okay. Let me--
let me do my thing, you--

833
00:37:02,370 --> 00:37:03,652
We try it my way,

834
00:37:03,752 --> 00:37:05,672
-then you say no, okay?
-MAN: But...

835
00:37:08,936 --> 00:37:10,932
Well, of course, uh,

836
00:37:11,316 --> 00:37:15,348
I have to say the duo of...

837
00:37:15,771 --> 00:37:18,842
Ron and Jack
was very interesting.

838
00:37:19,687 --> 00:37:22,467
Ron always came across
as someone

839
00:37:22,567 --> 00:37:25,063
who was preoccupied,

840
00:37:25,831 --> 00:37:27,228
intense.

841
00:37:27,328 --> 00:37:30,339
Jack came across as somebody

842
00:37:30,439 --> 00:37:32,834
who was always preoccupied,

843
00:37:32,934 --> 00:37:34,370
intense.

844
00:37:34,470 --> 00:37:36,367
-RON: Okay? Guys.
-MAN: That was good.

845
00:37:36,467 --> 00:37:38,863
Okay. Guys, guys, guys,
you gotta be professional.

846
00:37:38,963 --> 00:37:41,781
Okay? And that means
not frigging walking around...

847
00:37:41,881 --> 00:37:43,067
-MAN: Yes.
-...distracting me

848
00:37:43,076 --> 00:37:44,277
when I'm trying to focus.

849
00:37:44,377 --> 00:37:46,274
You know?
So, you know...

850
00:37:46,374 --> 00:37:47,579
MAN: All right.

851
00:37:47,679 --> 00:37:50,866
They were both
pretty grumpy guys.

852
00:37:51,442 --> 00:37:52,917
And they were very conscious

853
00:37:53,017 --> 00:37:56,933
of making every minute
of every day pay.

854
00:38:00,428 --> 00:38:02,862
You are not the flavor
of this month this moment,

855
00:38:02,962 --> 00:38:04,858
clunking down there.

856
00:38:04,958 --> 00:38:06,855
He didn't suffer fools gladly.

857
00:38:06,955 --> 00:38:10,181
DOUG: In fact,
we all respected them for it.

858
00:38:10,488 --> 00:38:12,500
You know?
That was a funny thing.

859
00:38:12,600 --> 00:38:16,478
Two senior people
screwing up my TV.

860
00:38:17,207 --> 00:38:19,680
Take your shoes off.
[CHUCKLES]

861
00:38:19,780 --> 00:38:25,286
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

862
00:38:25,386 --> 00:38:27,360
WOMAN: Thirteenth,
Monaco Grand Prix,

863
00:38:27,460 --> 00:38:29,625
they want you one day earlier
this year, Mr. Brabham.

864
00:38:29,725 --> 00:38:32,121
Roger phoned,
can he catch a lift?

865
00:38:32,221 --> 00:38:34,195
Seventeenth,
you're due at Zandvoort.

866
00:38:34,295 --> 00:38:36,498
On the 25th, you present a
Formula Three car

867
00:38:36,598 --> 00:38:39,225
to the best pupil driver
for BP in London.

868
00:38:39,325 --> 00:38:40,453
You'll have to make a speech,

869
00:38:40,553 --> 00:38:42,297
witty and not more
than 10 minutes.

870
00:38:42,397 --> 00:38:45,445
Tickets on reservation
for your flight to Australia...

871
00:38:45,545 --> 00:38:48,479
DAVID: The whole Brabham
Formula One program

872
00:38:48,579 --> 00:38:53,724
was formalized
when Dan Gurney joined in 1963.

873
00:38:54,914 --> 00:38:57,410
ANNOUNCER: Still out in front,
Dan "The Man" Gurney.

874
00:38:58,562 --> 00:39:00,843
NARRATOR: Early
into the 1963 program,

875
00:39:00,943 --> 00:39:02,647
Jack's hopes of
another championship

876
00:39:02,656 --> 00:39:04,337
were already looking unlikely.

877
00:39:04,437 --> 00:39:05,950
ANNOUNCER: Behind, number six,
Jack Brabham.

878
00:39:06,050 --> 00:39:09,214
They would lead races,
and the engine would fail.

879
00:39:09,314 --> 00:39:11,326
PRESENTER: ...with fuel trouble
five laps from the end.

880
00:39:11,426 --> 00:39:13,345
Very bad luck.

881
00:39:13,921 --> 00:39:15,548
NARRATOR: The days of being
single-mindedly focused

882
00:39:15,558 --> 00:39:17,162
on the track

883
00:39:17,262 --> 00:39:19,758
must have seemed like
a luxury now to Jack.

884
00:39:20,065 --> 00:39:22,331
He had cars to build
and payroll to meet.

885
00:39:22,715 --> 00:39:25,149
He was racing against, you know,
the Jimmy Clarks,

886
00:39:25,249 --> 00:39:26,915
you know, the Stirling Mosses,

887
00:39:27,015 --> 00:39:28,605
but, you know, unlike them,

888
00:39:28,705 --> 00:39:31,677
he had other business ventures
going on as well.

889
00:39:31,777 --> 00:39:34,288
NARRATOR: He was also being
outclassed in the field

890
00:39:34,388 --> 00:39:35,324
by Dan Gurney.

891
00:39:35,424 --> 00:39:37,628
ANNOUNCER: Dan Gurney, driving
a Brabham-Climax, number 9,

892
00:39:37,728 --> 00:39:39,894
was on his tail
until engine trouble.

893
00:39:39,994 --> 00:39:41,890
NARRATOR: By the end of 1963,

894
00:39:41,990 --> 00:39:43,196
Dan was starting to sense

895
00:39:43,296 --> 00:39:46,114
that Jack didn't want to spend
the money needed to compete

896
00:39:46,214 --> 00:39:48,111
with the likes of Lotus
and Ferrari.

897
00:39:48,211 --> 00:39:50,530
ANNOUNCER: Jim Clark wins
at over 107 miles an hour.

898
00:39:50,630 --> 00:39:53,487
Jack Brabham,
he was very tight with money.

899
00:39:53,587 --> 00:39:55,790
Because his interest was in...

900
00:39:55,890 --> 00:39:57,941
the cost of the car,
the maintenance.

901
00:39:58,041 --> 00:40:00,844
They'd work long hours,
late nights and early mornings.

902
00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:03,700
MAN: Here, Jack has gathered
a team of experts

903
00:40:03,800 --> 00:40:05,989
to bring a car first over
the finishing line.

904
00:40:07,333 --> 00:40:09,230
NARRATOR: Finally,
it all came together

905
00:40:09,330 --> 00:40:10,881
at the French Grand Prix.

906
00:40:10,981 --> 00:40:12,916
ANNOUNCER: Jim Clark and
Dan Gurney in hot pursuit.

907
00:40:13,016 --> 00:40:15,642
NARRATOR: Gurney had bagged
a win for Brabham Racing.

908
00:40:15,742 --> 00:40:18,023
And that was
the Brabham marque's

909
00:40:18,123 --> 00:40:20,153
first
World Championship-qualifying

910
00:40:20,163 --> 00:40:22,193
Grand Prix success.

911
00:40:22,654 --> 00:40:24,819
NARRATOR: But Jack still
couldn't break his drought.

912
00:40:24,919 --> 00:40:27,162
PRESENTER: Jack Brabham,
racing ace and designer too,

913
00:40:27,262 --> 00:40:28,506
in a Brabham, of course.

914
00:40:28,606 --> 00:40:31,616
NARRATOR: It had been four years
since he had won an F1 race

915
00:40:31,716 --> 00:40:34,112
and the aura around him
as a champion

916
00:40:34,212 --> 00:40:35,801
was quickly fading.

917
00:40:35,901 --> 00:40:38,374
PRESENTER: In the third lap,
Dan Gurney was in real trouble.

918
00:40:38,474 --> 00:40:40,332
NARRATOR: Gurney's patience
was wearing thin

919
00:40:40,432 --> 00:40:42,367
with Jack's reluctance
to spend money.

920
00:40:42,467 --> 00:40:43,788
PRESENTER: He'd just broken
the lap record

921
00:40:43,888 --> 00:40:45,170
when he had to drive into
the pitch

922
00:40:45,270 --> 00:40:47,190
with his transistor ignition
on fire.

923
00:40:47,498 --> 00:40:50,277
NARRATOR: Things with Ron were
also starting to fall apart.

924
00:40:50,377 --> 00:40:53,080
All the journalists
believed that he was responsible

925
00:40:53,180 --> 00:40:55,446
for the design
and build of the cars.

926
00:40:56,444 --> 00:40:58,648
Which was my responsibility,
actually.

927
00:40:58,748 --> 00:41:00,510
NARRATOR: Gurney won again
at the season-ending

928
00:41:00,519 --> 00:41:02,334
Mexico Grand Prix,

929
00:41:02,434 --> 00:41:04,369
but it seemed too little,
too late.

930
00:41:04,469 --> 00:41:06,366
JACK: Hello, I'm Jack Brabham.

931
00:41:06,466 --> 00:41:08,747
NARRATOR: Dan was now
the only one winning anything.

932
00:41:08,847 --> 00:41:11,611
But no one seemed to be
celebrating his achievements.

933
00:41:12,111 --> 00:41:14,238
They didn't celebrate at all,
never.

934
00:41:14,338 --> 00:41:16,849
They really were
like a bunch of Trappist monks.

935
00:41:16,949 --> 00:41:19,713
I never saw Jack really
let his hair down at any time.

936
00:41:20,059 --> 00:41:22,340
He wasn't really that
sort of bloke.

937
00:41:22,440 --> 00:41:25,373
He probably just went away
quietly and counted his money,

938
00:41:25,473 --> 00:41:27,777
and took it to Switzerland...

939
00:41:28,852 --> 00:41:31,118
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

940
00:41:31,809 --> 00:41:34,550
Flew to Monaco
with Jack in 1968.

941
00:41:34,650 --> 00:41:37,123
We flew to Nice via Geneva

942
00:41:37,223 --> 00:41:39,949
and Jack disappeared
for a couple of hours.

943
00:41:40,986 --> 00:41:42,806
I reckon he'd been to the bank,

944
00:41:42,906 --> 00:41:44,826
put it like that.

945
00:41:49,242 --> 00:41:51,315
I mean, everybody cheats
in Formula One.

946
00:41:53,734 --> 00:41:55,669
MAN: Did you ever cheat?

947
00:41:55,769 --> 00:41:57,689
I-- Never caught.

948
00:41:58,035 --> 00:42:00,431
"It's only wrong if you get
caught," that's what Jack said.

949
00:42:00,531 --> 00:42:02,451
"It's only wrong
if you get caught."

950
00:42:05,177 --> 00:42:07,097
MAN: Did Brabham ever cheat?

951
00:42:09,708 --> 00:42:11,628
Never caught.

952
00:42:12,242 --> 00:42:14,162
[HORSE WHINNYING]

953
00:42:18,002 --> 00:42:20,344
The wrong word is "cheat."

954
00:42:21,419 --> 00:42:24,107
People do whatever they can
to get an advantage.

955
00:42:28,792 --> 00:42:30,995
That's the only way
you will achieve

956
00:42:31,095 --> 00:42:33,092
maximum results,

957
00:42:34,475 --> 00:42:37,792
if you're really running
on the edge of the rules.

958
00:42:37,892 --> 00:42:39,789
MAN: And on the track, boy,
did Black Jack,

959
00:42:39,889 --> 00:42:41,939
the most competitive of all
Australian sportsmen,

960
00:42:42,039 --> 00:42:43,244
mean business.

961
00:42:43,344 --> 00:42:45,587
Yet such was the skill level
of them all in those days

962
00:42:45,687 --> 00:42:49,719
that Black Jack was involved
in very, very few accidents.

963
00:42:50,295 --> 00:42:53,251
Some will tell us
that he just used to cause them.

964
00:42:55,555 --> 00:42:57,721
DOUG: 'Cause another thing
you've got to appreciate

965
00:42:57,821 --> 00:43:02,428
was that Black Jack, or Blackie,
could be as mean as rat shit.

966
00:43:04,348 --> 00:43:06,437
JACKIE: I've had more marks
in my crash helmet

967
00:43:06,537 --> 00:43:09,225
from Jack Brabham
than I have in any accident.

968
00:43:10,185 --> 00:43:12,849
DOUG: If it came
to elbows-out driving,

969
00:43:12,949 --> 00:43:14,869
Jack was the man.

970
00:43:15,791 --> 00:43:17,918
JACKIE: He knew exactly
when to just

971
00:43:18,018 --> 00:43:20,207
go off the racetrack a tiny bit.

972
00:43:21,474 --> 00:43:25,214
Rivals retired their cars
with holes through the radiator.

973
00:43:25,314 --> 00:43:28,385
And there was always
stones and gravel which...

974
00:43:30,190 --> 00:43:32,663
He winked at me
when he told me that. He said,

975
00:43:32,763 --> 00:43:35,312
"You know what I used to do,
don't you, Tony?"

976
00:43:35,412 --> 00:43:38,576
I don't believe it.
Even if it's true. [CHUCKLES]

977
00:43:38,676 --> 00:43:44,105
[RETRO MUSIC PLAYING]

978
00:43:44,205 --> 00:43:46,640
PRESENTER: The checkered flag
down across your bonnet,

979
00:43:46,740 --> 00:43:48,675
and no cars ahead of you.

980
00:43:48,775 --> 00:43:51,731
That's the best sight
in the world to a racing driver.

981
00:43:54,112 --> 00:43:58,082
I mean sports,
what's glorious about sports

982
00:43:58,182 --> 00:44:00,371
is that it's ritualized war.

983
00:44:01,715 --> 00:44:04,188
NARRATOR: Jack was desperately
looking for solutions

984
00:44:04,288 --> 00:44:06,668
to get back on top for 1965.

985
00:44:07,091 --> 00:44:10,623
GRAYSON: We still want
that gritty, reckless,

986
00:44:11,238 --> 00:44:14,310
stoic hero.

987
00:44:15,769 --> 00:44:20,069
Because then that-- he's kind
of carrying with him...

988
00:44:20,760 --> 00:44:23,602
that bit in us that we wish
we could be like that.

989
00:44:25,675 --> 00:44:27,686
Jack didn't particularly
like the Coventry Climax

990
00:44:27,696 --> 00:44:29,722
V-8 engine

991
00:44:29,822 --> 00:44:31,450
to which they were wedded.

992
00:44:31,550 --> 00:44:33,793
NARRATOR: So he turned
his attention to Formula Two

993
00:44:33,893 --> 00:44:35,021
and enlisted Honda.

994
00:44:35,121 --> 00:44:37,709
Yes, well, Honda had sent
an engine over

995
00:44:37,809 --> 00:44:41,741
for Formula Two
with four young engineers.

996
00:44:41,841 --> 00:44:45,158
Everything was
started from zero,

997
00:44:45,258 --> 00:44:47,178
so we had to learn everything.

998
00:44:47,793 --> 00:44:50,995
NARRATOR: The Brabham Honda
outing was yet another failure.

999
00:44:51,095 --> 00:44:53,760
They ran the engine up for us,

1000
00:44:53,860 --> 00:44:55,871
but it was no good
for a race car

1001
00:44:55,971 --> 00:44:58,352
because we didn't have
that many revs available.

1002
00:44:59,120 --> 00:45:01,040
He irritated so much.

1003
00:45:01,424 --> 00:45:04,434
NARRATOR: And 1965
was another one of those years,

1004
00:45:04,534 --> 00:45:06,608
with not a single win
for the team.

1005
00:45:07,376 --> 00:45:09,580
Dan was very much
like my dad, you know.

1006
00:45:09,680 --> 00:45:12,037
He wanted to start his own team.

1007
00:45:12,137 --> 00:45:14,878
NARRATOR: Gurney finally left
at the end of the season

1008
00:45:14,978 --> 00:45:16,491
to start his own team.

1009
00:45:16,591 --> 00:45:19,548
And Jack's old protege
Bruce McLaren did the same,

1010
00:45:19,893 --> 00:45:22,097
leaving Cooper's
to start McLaren Racing.

1011
00:45:22,197 --> 00:45:24,632
MAN: Fangio was 47
when he retired

1012
00:45:24,732 --> 00:45:27,473
with five Grand Prix
World titles behind him.

1013
00:45:27,573 --> 00:45:29,531
Have you any
set retirement plans?

1014
00:45:30,222 --> 00:45:32,964
I think there must have
been some comments in the press

1015
00:45:33,064 --> 00:45:35,345
about the age of Jack
as a driver.

1016
00:45:35,445 --> 00:45:36,727
MAN: You are 40 now,

1017
00:45:36,827 --> 00:45:38,570
and I suppose you must have
given some thought

1018
00:45:38,670 --> 00:45:41,258
to how long you can keep going,
and stay at the front.

1019
00:45:41,358 --> 00:45:44,407
RON: And his wife, Betty,
used that as an argument

1020
00:45:44,507 --> 00:45:45,866
to stop racing

1021
00:45:45,966 --> 00:45:48,438
and to have more influence
on the children

1022
00:45:48,538 --> 00:45:50,458
and get back to Australia.

1023
00:45:53,837 --> 00:45:55,757
Didn't seem to bother him.

1024
00:45:56,717 --> 00:45:58,637
He wanted to race.

1025
00:45:59,213 --> 00:46:00,649
That was it.

1026
00:46:00,749 --> 00:46:02,377
I haven't got
any different plans,

1027
00:46:02,477 --> 00:46:05,203
but I certainly don't intend
to retire at the moment.

1028
00:46:06,317 --> 00:46:08,137
Well, yeah,
I think the mythologizing--

1029
00:46:08,237 --> 00:46:09,557
I mean, I think we all--

1030
00:46:09,657 --> 00:46:11,577
We are human beings,
we love a story.

1031
00:46:12,576 --> 00:46:14,587
You know? That's what--
that's central

1032
00:46:14,687 --> 00:46:16,162
to how we construct ourselves,

1033
00:46:16,262 --> 00:46:17,275
is narrative.

1034
00:46:17,375 --> 00:46:20,908
It's the most powerful and most
ancient form of culture.

1035
00:46:21,676 --> 00:46:24,441
And so, you need heroes,
you got to have them.

1036
00:46:25,209 --> 00:46:27,720
NARRATOR: And if Jack could
beat out Gurney and McLaren

1037
00:46:27,820 --> 00:46:30,369
in the following season,
and become the first driver

1038
00:46:30,469 --> 00:46:32,888
to win a championship
in a car bearing his own name,

1039
00:46:33,387 --> 00:46:36,728
he knew he'd not only
become a hero again,

1040
00:46:37,150 --> 00:46:39,070
he'd become a legend.

1041
00:46:52,433 --> 00:46:56,503
For 1966
and the new three-liter formula.

1042
00:46:57,041 --> 00:47:00,435
Coventry Climax announced
that they would not be building

1043
00:47:00,535 --> 00:47:01,855
a suitable engine.

1044
00:47:01,955 --> 00:47:05,027
So we had to produce
a Formula One car in a hurry.

1045
00:47:06,448 --> 00:47:09,305
DOUG: And few people
were willing to supply them

1046
00:47:09,405 --> 00:47:11,977
because they'd be making
a rod for their own backs.

1047
00:47:15,625 --> 00:47:18,866
Jack was racing in America
and he heard about these.

1048
00:47:18,966 --> 00:47:21,477
JOHN: He saw opportunity
in 1966, I guess,

1049
00:47:21,577 --> 00:47:23,497
that wasn't obvious
to anybody else.

1050
00:47:23,804 --> 00:47:25,701
DOUG: The new engine
that he chose

1051
00:47:25,801 --> 00:47:29,540
was an American prototype
production V-8.

1052
00:47:29,640 --> 00:47:31,460
He told Repco about them.

1053
00:47:31,560 --> 00:47:34,916
RON: Repco agreed
to support Jack.

1054
00:47:35,016 --> 00:47:37,143
TONY: Phil Irving
was charged with drawing

1055
00:47:37,243 --> 00:47:39,524
the Repco Brabham race engine.

1056
00:47:39,624 --> 00:47:41,597
BERNIE: Drivers and teams
were delighted

1057
00:47:41,697 --> 00:47:44,017
because they thought it would be
not very competitive.

1058
00:47:44,117 --> 00:47:47,357
No Formula One engine had
ever been built in Australia.

1059
00:47:47,457 --> 00:47:49,124
JACKIE: Who would have gone
to Australia

1060
00:47:49,224 --> 00:47:51,850
to get a motor-racing engine
for Formula One?

1061
00:47:51,950 --> 00:47:53,923
JOHN: Betty cooked me a steak
for lunch at home with Jack

1062
00:47:54,023 --> 00:47:55,382
and we shook hands on a deal.

1063
00:47:55,482 --> 00:47:58,531
And the idea was that I was
gonna work on the Repco engines.

1064
00:47:58,631 --> 00:48:02,087
[CLASSICAL MUSIC PLAYING]

1065
00:48:02,893 --> 00:48:05,788
DOUG: And Ron Tauranac
engineered that

1066
00:48:05,888 --> 00:48:09,613
into BT19 and BT20 cars.

1067
00:48:10,150 --> 00:48:11,548
JOHN: There was no test bed,

1068
00:48:11,648 --> 00:48:13,314
so they would just get
put in the cars

1069
00:48:13,414 --> 00:48:16,501
and Jack and Danny had to
drive them a bit slowly

1070
00:48:16,601 --> 00:48:17,615
for the first few laps.

1071
00:48:17,715 --> 00:48:19,343
They were very practical...

1072
00:48:19,443 --> 00:48:21,877
The Repco engine
was constantly failing.

1073
00:48:21,977 --> 00:48:24,642
...and they had
all the reliability.

1074
00:48:24,742 --> 00:48:26,715
One particular practice
we went to,

1075
00:48:26,815 --> 00:48:28,735
one of the valve seats fell out.

1076
00:48:29,157 --> 00:48:32,705
And this
Australian-developed engine

1077
00:48:32,805 --> 00:48:36,008
was regarded initially
as very much the underdog

1078
00:48:36,108 --> 00:48:38,027
in Formula One competition.

1079
00:48:39,947 --> 00:48:42,420
TONY: They've only got
literally one engine.

1080
00:48:42,520 --> 00:48:44,709
It breaks down
in its first race.

1081
00:48:47,051 --> 00:48:48,971
It breaks down
in its second race.

1082
00:48:53,079 --> 00:48:56,474
HUGHIE: There was a moment there
before we went to Reims

1083
00:48:56,574 --> 00:48:58,009
where Jack said,
"Do you think we should

1084
00:48:58,019 --> 00:48:59,454
carry on with this thing?"

1085
00:49:00,682 --> 00:49:03,654
GEOFF: They had my dad,
Bruce McLaren, and Dan Gurney

1086
00:49:03,754 --> 00:49:05,382
all building their own cars,

1087
00:49:05,482 --> 00:49:08,416
taking on the might
of Lotus and Ferrari.

1088
00:49:08,516 --> 00:49:10,835
PRESENTER: Jack Brabham
approving the Brabham Repco...

1089
00:49:10,935 --> 00:49:13,254
We both said, no, no,
we gotta keep going.

1090
00:49:13,354 --> 00:49:14,770
PRESENTER:
Jack Brabham's car is proving

1091
00:49:14,779 --> 00:49:16,195
to be greater than anticipated.

1092
00:49:16,925 --> 00:49:18,399
It beats the Ferraris.

1093
00:49:18,499 --> 00:49:19,973
PRESENTER:
It was victory for Brabham.

1094
00:49:20,073 --> 00:49:22,239
His average speed was also
the fastest ever seen...

1095
00:49:22,339 --> 00:49:24,965
Hang on, this engine that no one
is taking seriously,

1096
00:49:25,065 --> 00:49:26,693
it has beaten the Ferraris.

1097
00:49:26,793 --> 00:49:28,920
ANNOUNCER: It's also
the first time that a driver

1098
00:49:29,020 --> 00:49:30,379
has ever won a world title event

1099
00:49:30,479 --> 00:49:32,399
in a car
of his own construction.

1100
00:49:33,013 --> 00:49:35,333
And all of a sudden,
we were King Kong

1101
00:49:35,433 --> 00:49:37,252
and away we went.

1102
00:49:37,352 --> 00:49:40,017
ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham
driving a Repco Brabham.

1103
00:49:40,117 --> 00:49:43,819
DOUG: And they just won race
after race, after race,

1104
00:49:43,919 --> 00:49:46,299
driven by Jack Brabham
and by Denny Hulme.

1105
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:48,350
RON: Well,
I didn't think about it.

1106
00:49:48,450 --> 00:49:50,154
We just carried on
with the next one.

1107
00:49:50,254 --> 00:49:52,381
ANNOUNCER: The fastest
European race since the war.

1108
00:49:52,481 --> 00:49:54,670
A very proud
moment in all of our lives.

1109
00:49:55,400 --> 00:49:58,563
DOUG: They were very,
very competent people

1110
00:49:58,663 --> 00:50:02,403
producing beautifully
well-made machines.

1111
00:50:02,503 --> 00:50:04,323
[THUNDER RUMBLES]

1112
00:50:04,423 --> 00:50:05,705
Is that rain?

1113
00:50:05,805 --> 00:50:10,912
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

1114
00:50:19,744 --> 00:50:22,063
TONY: Jack has won
three races in a row.

1115
00:50:22,163 --> 00:50:23,945
with an engine
people were laughing at

1116
00:50:24,045 --> 00:50:25,596
at the start of the year.

1117
00:50:25,696 --> 00:50:27,419
If that's not enough,
he's got a Honda engine

1118
00:50:27,428 --> 00:50:29,128
in his Formula Two car.

1119
00:50:29,228 --> 00:50:31,471
ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham, powered
by a Japanese Honda engine.

1120
00:50:31,571 --> 00:50:32,968
TONY: He's worked
really closely with them,

1121
00:50:33,068 --> 00:50:34,427
and suddenly
they have a world beater.

1122
00:50:34,527 --> 00:50:35,541
[NOBUHIKO LAUGHS]

1123
00:50:35,641 --> 00:50:37,461
ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham
and his teammate

1124
00:50:37,561 --> 00:50:39,496
are one-two in the overall
points standing.

1125
00:50:39,596 --> 00:50:41,531
TONY: So after all
those dark years,

1126
00:50:41,631 --> 00:50:43,259
they are so close
to winning the championship.

1127
00:50:43,359 --> 00:50:45,716
ANNOUNCER: Brabham in his Repco
Brabham number 3.

1128
00:50:45,816 --> 00:50:49,671
The Australian won the drivers'
world title in '59 and '60.

1129
00:50:49,771 --> 00:50:51,476
Nürburgring is known
as the Green Hell.

1130
00:50:51,576 --> 00:50:52,858
ANNOUNCER:
The German Grand Prix,

1131
00:50:52,958 --> 00:50:55,930
fourteen miles of ups and downs
over the grueling Nürburgring.

1132
00:50:56,030 --> 00:50:57,696
The most difficult,
most challenging,

1133
00:50:57,796 --> 00:51:01,982
most prestigious, most historic
racetrack in the world.

1134
00:51:02,327 --> 00:51:04,147
GEOFF: You can go off
into the forest

1135
00:51:04,247 --> 00:51:06,167
and they're not gonna find you
for weeks.

1136
00:51:07,089 --> 00:51:08,563
And it's raining.

1137
00:51:08,663 --> 00:51:10,329
It is extremely dangerous.

1138
00:51:10,429 --> 00:51:11,981
ANNOUNCER: Fastest lap
in practice,

1139
00:51:12,081 --> 00:51:14,169
number one,
world champion Jim Clark.

1140
00:51:14,269 --> 00:51:16,780
NARRATOR: This was
the biggest race of Jack's life.

1141
00:51:16,880 --> 00:51:18,086
[SOLDIERS SINGING]

1142
00:51:18,186 --> 00:51:19,507
NARRATOR:
To win at Nürburg,

1143
00:51:19,607 --> 00:51:21,834
guaranteeing motorsport
immortality.

1144
00:51:22,141 --> 00:51:24,521
No sooner has the race started
then there's tragedy.

1145
00:51:26,979 --> 00:51:29,820
TONY: Jacky Ickx
and John Taylor collide.

1146
00:51:30,128 --> 00:51:31,986
So, we have a car on fire.

1147
00:51:32,086 --> 00:51:34,098
John Taylor is in a Brabham car.

1148
00:51:34,198 --> 00:51:35,345
ANNOUNCER:
Brabham still leading,

1149
00:51:35,355 --> 00:51:36,555
driving a Repco Brabham.

1150
00:51:36,655 --> 00:51:39,128
It was an era
where drivers would drive

1151
00:51:39,228 --> 00:51:40,933
straight past a burning car

1152
00:51:41,033 --> 00:51:43,697
where someone literally
was being immolated.

1153
00:51:43,797 --> 00:51:45,425
If there was an accident,
they drove harder,

1154
00:51:45,525 --> 00:51:47,445
because they knew others
would be backing off.

1155
00:51:47,868 --> 00:51:49,265
ANNOUNCER: On Brabham's tail,
John Surtees' Cooper-Maserati

1156
00:51:49,274 --> 00:51:50,647
number seven.

1157
00:51:50,747 --> 00:51:51,991
TONY: Most teams
would've collapsed

1158
00:51:52,091 --> 00:51:54,718
during that long season
of lack of success.

1159
00:51:54,818 --> 00:51:56,311
ANNOUNCER: The Australian
won the drivers' world title

1160
00:51:56,320 --> 00:51:57,751
in '59 and '60.

1161
00:51:57,851 --> 00:51:59,901
TONY: And they are
a hair's breadth away

1162
00:52:00,001 --> 00:52:01,399
from winning
the World Championship,

1163
00:52:01,499 --> 00:52:03,434
which would make Jack
a three-time world champion.

1164
00:52:03,534 --> 00:52:05,531
ANNOUNCER: Brabham,
on his way to victory.

1165
00:52:06,491 --> 00:52:13,210
[ROCK MUSIC PLAYING]

1166
00:52:13,786 --> 00:52:15,837
ANNOUNCER: Jack Brabham,
ex-world champ,

1167
00:52:15,937 --> 00:52:17,603
proves he's not too old at forty

1168
00:52:17,703 --> 00:52:20,275
by this superbly confident win.

1169
00:52:23,962 --> 00:52:25,781
DOUG:
And for the very first time

1170
00:52:25,791 --> 00:52:27,610
in motor racing history,

1171
00:52:27,917 --> 00:52:31,426
we had a world champion driver

1172
00:52:31,526 --> 00:52:34,076
who'd won
the World Championship

1173
00:52:34,176 --> 00:52:36,326
in a car bearing his own name.

1174
00:52:45,004 --> 00:52:49,535
WOMAN: ...a state funeral
for a three-time world champion.

1175
00:52:49,957 --> 00:52:52,007
Motor racing great
Sir Jack Brabham

1176
00:52:52,107 --> 00:52:55,540
has been remembered as a legend,
on and off the track,

1177
00:52:55,640 --> 00:52:57,383
at his state funeral today.

1178
00:52:57,483 --> 00:53:00,109
His life could have
come straight from the pages

1179
00:53:00,209 --> 00:53:02,644
of the Boys' Own adventure
books of his day.

1180
00:53:02,744 --> 00:53:06,061
Jack passed away
on Monday morning, May the 19th,

1181
00:53:06,161 --> 00:53:08,173
in their home
here on the Gold Coast.

1182
00:53:08,273 --> 00:53:10,193
He was 88 years of age.

1183
00:53:12,958 --> 00:53:14,394
Right.

1184
00:53:14,494 --> 00:53:17,427
Um, uh...

1185
00:53:17,527 --> 00:53:21,943
I don't think any, uh,
world champion-- no, no sport...

1186
00:53:22,327 --> 00:53:25,567
I don't think any multiple
world champion sportsman

1187
00:53:25,667 --> 00:53:28,470
ever achieves what they achieve

1188
00:53:28,893 --> 00:53:32,195
without inflicting
some collateral family damage.

1189
00:53:36,572 --> 00:53:38,492
Oh, I think, um...

1190
00:53:39,452 --> 00:53:41,042
you know, Jack was old school.

1191
00:53:41,142 --> 00:53:43,062
Um...

1192
00:53:44,022 --> 00:53:46,187
In some way, a likable rouge.

1193
00:53:46,287 --> 00:53:48,337
In many ways...

1194
00:53:48,437 --> 00:53:51,241
he and I had a lot of conflict.

1195
00:53:53,544 --> 00:53:55,364
There were certain things
where he went,

1196
00:53:55,464 --> 00:53:57,553
"You know what, Jack?
You're out of order."

1197
00:53:57,653 --> 00:53:59,765
You know? I fell out with him
several times.

1198
00:54:03,605 --> 00:54:07,153
I think my dad ended up
sacrificing quite a lot,

1199
00:54:07,253 --> 00:54:09,787
particularly, I think,
from a family point of view.

1200
00:54:10,286 --> 00:54:11,760
He went over on his own

1201
00:54:11,860 --> 00:54:15,139
and left his family behind
for a year at a time,

1202
00:54:15,239 --> 00:54:16,483
but I would never do that.

1203
00:54:16,583 --> 00:54:19,785
He didn't have time
at that particular point

1204
00:54:19,885 --> 00:54:23,687
to really take too much interest
in what we were doing.

1205
00:54:24,992 --> 00:54:26,928
DAVID: He was either
at a racetrack

1206
00:54:27,028 --> 00:54:28,947
or he was in his workshop.

1207
00:54:29,639 --> 00:54:32,826
And he'd come home to eat,
sleep, and off he'd go again.

1208
00:54:34,554 --> 00:54:37,333
"He had an enormous amount
of grit and determination,

1209
00:54:37,433 --> 00:54:39,353
and never gave up,

1210
00:54:39,699 --> 00:54:41,672
which was demonstrated in 1959,

1211
00:54:41,772 --> 00:54:43,515
when he pushed his car
across the line

1212
00:54:43,615 --> 00:54:46,342
to win his first Formula One
World Championship."

1213
00:54:48,415 --> 00:54:49,966
I've lost the train
of thought now.

1214
00:54:50,066 --> 00:54:52,078
Go back to the question.

1215
00:54:52,178 --> 00:54:55,035
Tonight,
we are celebrating 70 years

1216
00:54:55,135 --> 00:54:57,631
of amazing history and heritage,

1217
00:54:58,092 --> 00:54:59,950
and paying homage to it.

1218
00:55:00,050 --> 00:55:01,970
[FIRE CRACKLING]

1219
00:55:08,113 --> 00:55:09,549
ANNOUNCER: Jack goes down
the main straight

1220
00:55:09,649 --> 00:55:11,661
at close
to 140 miles an hour.

1221
00:55:11,761 --> 00:55:13,543
Jim Clark barely three seconds
behind him.

1222
00:55:13,643 --> 00:55:16,423
I was one when my dad won
his third World Championship,

1223
00:55:16,523 --> 00:55:18,227
and he retired when I was five.

1224
00:55:18,327 --> 00:55:21,837
So I don't remember any
of his '60s period of racing.

1225
00:55:21,937 --> 00:55:23,641
MAN: It's another one of those
many happy occasions...

1226
00:55:23,741 --> 00:55:25,753
DAVID: I was surrounded
by lots of trophies,

1227
00:55:25,853 --> 00:55:27,827
but they were objects.
I really didn't understand

1228
00:55:27,927 --> 00:55:30,284
what they were, and yeah,
you know, Dad was away a lot.

1229
00:55:30,384 --> 00:55:33,241
He retired, although
at the end of 1970,

1230
00:55:33,341 --> 00:55:35,046
we went back to Australia,

1231
00:55:35,146 --> 00:55:38,617
he started up three businesses,
and he started up racing again

1232
00:55:38,717 --> 00:55:40,652
in touring cars.

1233
00:55:40,752 --> 00:55:43,593
GEOFF: What he was doing
required that he spend

1234
00:55:44,169 --> 00:55:47,087
eighteen hours a day
doing what he was doing.

1235
00:55:48,585 --> 00:55:51,979
So, he was always in and out
of the house.

1236
00:55:52,079 --> 00:55:55,074
More out than in,
to be honest with you.

1237
00:55:55,996 --> 00:55:59,505
Yeah, I mean, I just got on
and did my own thing,

1238
00:55:59,605 --> 00:56:01,679
and was quite happy doing that.

1239
00:56:02,408 --> 00:56:04,075
But anyone I met,

1240
00:56:04,175 --> 00:56:05,419
the first thing out
of their mouth,

1241
00:56:05,519 --> 00:56:06,762
"Oh, that's Jack Brabham's son."

1242
00:56:06,862 --> 00:56:08,298
You know,
"That's Jack Brabham's son."

1243
00:56:08,398 --> 00:56:12,853
And that's the bit I found
difficult to cope with.

1244
00:56:13,621 --> 00:56:15,440
In terms of "Who am I?"

1245
00:56:15,540 --> 00:56:17,460
If I'm Jack's son, who am I?

1246
00:56:18,766 --> 00:56:21,354
So, when I look back,
I think, yeah, he was away,

1247
00:56:21,454 --> 00:56:23,719
but did it affect me?
It's difficult to say.

1248
00:56:24,372 --> 00:56:26,154
PRESENTER: Racing writers
have called him

1249
00:56:26,254 --> 00:56:27,574
"The Shy Champion."

1250
00:56:27,674 --> 00:56:29,993
TONY: I've been an author
for decades

1251
00:56:30,093 --> 00:56:32,144
and I've probably now read
every single word

1252
00:56:32,244 --> 00:56:34,025
ever written about Jack Brabham.

1253
00:56:34,125 --> 00:56:36,137
PRESENTER: The quietly spoken
gentleman of the circuits...

1254
00:56:36,237 --> 00:56:39,132
TONY: And yet, he's almost
impossible to read.

1255
00:56:39,232 --> 00:56:41,070
PRESENTER:
The name of Brabham ranks

1256
00:56:41,080 --> 00:56:42,972
now with Fangio and Ferrari.

1257
00:56:43,072 --> 00:56:44,469
TONY: It's so easy to talk about

1258
00:56:44,569 --> 00:56:46,504
the extraordinary things
that he's done,

1259
00:56:46,604 --> 00:56:48,578
but in terms of
getting into his mind,

1260
00:56:48,678 --> 00:56:51,404
that's a much, much more
difficult proposition.

1261
00:56:57,164 --> 00:56:58,677
MAN: So, Ron,
where you're drawing

1262
00:56:58,777 --> 00:57:02,363
is between your face
and this lens, okay?

1263
00:57:02,463 --> 00:57:04,052
-My face?
-This area around here, please,

1264
00:57:04,152 --> 00:57:05,704
Oh, because
I can't see the lens.

1265
00:57:05,804 --> 00:57:07,355
That's right.
If you just work around here,

1266
00:57:07,455 --> 00:57:08,852
-we'll be all right.
-Yeah. So...

1267
00:57:08,952 --> 00:57:10,503
MAN: Around about here,
where my hand is.

1268
00:57:10,603 --> 00:57:11,770
-Yeah, okay.
-MAN: Okay?

1269
00:57:11,870 --> 00:57:13,790
I don't know what the hell
to draw.

1270
00:57:17,861 --> 00:57:19,988
Ugh, it all slips down. So...

1271
00:57:20,088 --> 00:57:21,600
MAN: That's all right,
that's all right.

1272
00:57:21,700 --> 00:57:22,714
Remember, it's hand-drawn.

1273
00:57:22,814 --> 00:57:25,195
Yeah, but it's just
a mess though.

1274
00:57:25,847 --> 00:57:28,627
See, this is really--
just slips down

1275
00:57:28,727 --> 00:57:30,816
as soon as I put
any pressure on it.

1276
00:57:30,916 --> 00:57:33,235
MAN: Well, thankfully,
you're not designing the next...

1277
00:57:33,335 --> 00:57:35,600
the next big Formula One
revolution.

1278
00:57:37,098 --> 00:57:39,018
Unfortunately.

1279
00:57:39,402 --> 00:57:44,163
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

1280
00:57:45,315 --> 00:57:49,900
I don't really know
quite how truly friendly

1281
00:57:50,000 --> 00:57:52,304
Ron and Jack Brabham were.

1282
00:57:53,264 --> 00:57:56,619
He took ideas from me,
and so forth,

1283
00:57:56,719 --> 00:58:00,866
and I got equipment from him
and help on machining from him.

1284
00:58:01,366 --> 00:58:03,109
MAN: So, it was very much
a mutual respect?

1285
00:58:03,209 --> 00:58:05,129
That's right.

1286
00:58:05,858 --> 00:58:08,392
He had more respect for money
than I did.

1287
00:58:11,464 --> 00:58:13,899
DOUG: Ron Tauranac,
I always recall

1288
00:58:13,999 --> 00:58:18,468
as one of the most competitive
race engineers I've ever met.

1289
00:58:18,568 --> 00:58:20,772
It was very difficult to decide
who was actually

1290
00:58:20,872 --> 00:58:22,922
steering the ship
because, obviously,

1291
00:58:23,022 --> 00:58:27,299
Jack had very firm views
on how to set up a car,

1292
00:58:27,399 --> 00:58:31,024
and they would spend
endless amounts of time

1293
00:58:31,124 --> 00:58:36,001
debating this or, you could say,
even arguing about it.

1294
00:58:38,458 --> 00:58:40,432
GEOFF: Another myth
is that people talk about

1295
00:58:40,532 --> 00:58:42,966
genes being passed down
the family.

1296
00:58:43,066 --> 00:58:45,078
Uh, that's not true.

1297
00:58:45,178 --> 00:58:47,098
Racing is a disease.

1298
00:58:50,054 --> 00:58:52,297
DAVID: Growing up on the farm,
I loved to speed.

1299
00:58:52,397 --> 00:58:54,639
You know, I would drive
every vehicle,

1300
00:58:54,739 --> 00:58:58,694
every motorbike, every tractor,
flat out, sideways,

1301
00:58:59,116 --> 00:59:01,766
always trying to find
that extra limit.

1302
00:59:02,918 --> 00:59:05,889
Went to a workshop,
saw a go-kart sitting there,

1303
00:59:05,989 --> 00:59:08,232
never seen a racing go-kart
in my life.

1304
00:59:08,332 --> 00:59:10,252
Didn't even know
people raced them.

1305
00:59:10,597 --> 00:59:13,262
The mechanic was there,
working on the kart,

1306
00:59:13,362 --> 00:59:16,564
and I said, "Do people race
these things, do they?"

1307
00:59:16,664 --> 00:59:20,082
And he sort of looked at me
and said, "Are you adopted?"

1308
00:59:23,077 --> 00:59:25,549
So, when I jumped in the
go-kart for the very first time,

1309
00:59:25,649 --> 00:59:28,068
and Dad's watching me,
he's just gone,

1310
00:59:28,798 --> 00:59:30,718
"Okay, where the hell's
that come from?"

1311
00:59:32,062 --> 00:59:34,534
You know,
when I drove race cars,

1312
00:59:34,634 --> 00:59:36,554
the speed meant nothing.

1313
00:59:37,476 --> 00:59:40,294
It was competing against
somebody else and beating them.

1314
00:59:40,394 --> 00:59:43,236
That was the thrill
that I got out of racing.

1315
00:59:43,696 --> 00:59:45,516
DAVID:
He's a veteran anyway, so,

1316
00:59:45,616 --> 00:59:47,283
you can see the lines, you know?

1317
00:59:47,383 --> 00:59:48,588
[LAUGHTER]

1318
00:59:48,688 --> 00:59:51,199
WOMAN: David is the third
of Sir Jack Brabham's sons

1319
00:59:51,299 --> 00:59:54,064
to follow the former
Formula One world champion.

1320
00:59:54,755 --> 00:59:57,520
DAVID: I think the turning point
for me was...

1321
00:59:57,827 --> 01:00:00,799
I did a race
and my dad came to it,

1322
01:00:00,899 --> 01:00:02,911
and I won by, like, half a lap,

1323
01:00:03,011 --> 01:00:08,194
and that was the time he went,
"This kid could go a long way."

1324
01:00:08,809 --> 01:00:12,149
MAN: So, do you think-- did you
aspire to be like your brothers?

1325
01:00:12,879 --> 01:00:14,622
I aspired to beat them.

1326
01:00:14,722 --> 01:00:20,559
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

1327
01:00:21,250 --> 01:00:23,070
MAN: On November 29, 1970,

1328
01:00:23,170 --> 01:00:25,565
the racing greats of the world
gather in your honor

1329
01:00:25,665 --> 01:00:27,562
for the Brands Hatch
farewell meeting.

1330
01:00:27,662 --> 01:00:30,173
The next evening, they gather
again for a farewell banquet

1331
01:00:30,273 --> 01:00:32,654
given in your honor
at the Savoy Hotel in London.

1332
01:00:33,192 --> 01:00:34,704
Well, Betty, the Ford Company

1333
01:00:34,804 --> 01:00:36,778
presents you
with a ball and chain,

1334
01:00:36,878 --> 01:00:38,659
and it's inscribed,

1335
01:00:38,759 --> 01:00:42,345
"Presented to Betty Brabham
on 25th November, 1970,

1336
01:00:42,445 --> 01:00:43,805
who won in the end."

1337
01:00:43,905 --> 01:00:45,724
And here's your reply.

1338
01:00:45,824 --> 01:00:47,568
I've been asked what I did

1339
01:00:47,668 --> 01:00:49,741
to make Jack
give up motor racing.

1340
01:00:50,240 --> 01:00:52,444
It was quite simple really.
I said,

1341
01:00:52,544 --> 01:00:56,207
"Jack, motor racing or divorce?"

1342
01:00:56,307 --> 01:00:58,265
[LAUGHTER]

1343
01:00:58,649 --> 01:01:01,352
GEOFF: When my dad
retired in 1970,

1344
01:01:01,452 --> 01:01:04,540
he retired and just sold
everything out to Ron.

1345
01:01:04,640 --> 01:01:06,767
I'm surprised that he did that.

1346
01:01:06,867 --> 01:01:10,146
It was a little bit, I think,
out of character for him

1347
01:01:10,246 --> 01:01:12,972
just to shut the door
and walk away.

1348
01:01:13,625 --> 01:01:17,096
MAN: And now, Jack, here is your
good friend, Ron Tauranac.

1349
01:01:17,196 --> 01:01:21,995
[DRAMATIC MUSIC]

1350
01:01:24,146 --> 01:01:27,333
RON: Well, I was at Monaco,

1351
01:01:28,062 --> 01:01:32,939
and I was walking along past
the oceanfront

1352
01:01:33,284 --> 01:01:36,372
and a friend said,
"Just a moment.

1353
01:01:36,472 --> 01:01:38,176
I'll introduce you to someone."

1354
01:01:38,276 --> 01:01:40,196
They introduced me
to Bernie Ecclestone.

1355
01:01:40,734 --> 01:01:43,191
[LAUGHING]

1356
01:01:44,151 --> 01:01:46,685
I said I'd buy into the team.

1357
01:01:48,529 --> 01:01:53,689
And I said, "Well, no.
I wouldn't sell a half share,

1358
01:01:53,789 --> 01:01:56,607
I've been in business
with a friend for many years,

1359
01:01:56,707 --> 01:02:00,010
and I wouldn't want
to do that again."

1360
01:02:00,816 --> 01:02:04,233
And it then came that he wanted
to sell, full stop.

1361
01:02:04,541 --> 01:02:06,768
I said, "But I'll sell you
the business."

1362
01:02:07,190 --> 01:02:10,469
Ron had his own ideas
of what should happen,

1363
01:02:10,569 --> 01:02:12,466
and he didn't always,
sort of, fall into line,

1364
01:02:12,566 --> 01:02:14,486
so I changed them.

1365
01:02:15,330 --> 01:02:19,055
He gave me a call
and offered me...

1366
01:02:19,554 --> 01:02:21,489
I think it was one million less.

1367
01:02:21,589 --> 01:02:23,740
[EERIE MUSIC PLAYING]

1368
01:02:25,275 --> 01:02:26,865
Really? I don't remember.

1369
01:02:26,965 --> 01:02:28,862
I should have bartered
but I didn't.

1370
01:02:28,962 --> 01:02:30,206
I just thought about it
and said,

1371
01:02:30,306 --> 01:02:32,087
"Gee, I'm in trouble
if I don't sell now.

1372
01:02:32,187 --> 01:02:34,276
I've arranged all these things."

1373
01:02:34,376 --> 01:02:36,296
So I agreed to sell.

1374
01:02:36,987 --> 01:02:39,498
It was agreed,
he was looking for one price,

1375
01:02:39,598 --> 01:02:41,787
and I'd probably try
and buy it for less.

1376
01:02:42,900 --> 01:02:45,242
Nothing's changed
as far as I'm concerned.

1377
01:02:46,049 --> 01:02:47,946
GEOFF: And then
when Bernie sold it,

1378
01:02:48,046 --> 01:02:50,825
things, you know,
went downhill really fast

1379
01:02:50,925 --> 01:02:53,421
from that point to where
it just totally disappeared.

1380
01:03:06,131 --> 01:03:08,757
TONY: We had a shed
full of things

1381
01:03:08,857 --> 01:03:11,353
that were very sentimental
to the family.

1382
01:03:12,774 --> 01:03:15,270
So, it was a telephone call
from my mom.

1383
01:03:16,345 --> 01:03:19,893
"I got some bad news.
The shed went up in flames."

1384
01:03:19,993 --> 01:03:21,913
And it's, like, "What?"

1385
01:03:22,873 --> 01:03:24,232
How could it go up in flames?

1386
01:03:24,332 --> 01:03:26,252
You know,
it was just a mystery.

1387
01:03:27,365 --> 01:03:30,375
And anything we can't find,

1388
01:03:30,475 --> 01:03:32,756
we just assumed
that it's down to the fire.

1389
01:03:32,856 --> 01:03:36,350
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

1390
01:03:41,112 --> 01:03:43,431
GRAYSON:
To a child, their parents

1391
01:03:43,531 --> 01:03:45,643
are the only ones they have.

1392
01:03:46,564 --> 01:03:49,482
So, therefore,
you do put them on a pedestal.

1393
01:03:49,828 --> 01:03:52,055
You know,
they are perfect because...

1394
01:03:52,554 --> 01:03:55,488
in order for you to survive
in the family unit,

1395
01:03:55,588 --> 01:03:58,276
you've got to believe
that they're perfect.

1396
01:03:59,658 --> 01:04:03,283
But if you have a very famous
and successful parent,

1397
01:04:03,383 --> 01:04:06,930
their perfection
is held up there,

1398
01:04:07,030 --> 01:04:09,465
not just by you
but by the public as well,

1399
01:04:09,565 --> 01:04:13,174
and I suppose they've got
further to fall.

1400
01:04:14,134 --> 01:04:16,515
So, if they turn out
to be flawed,

1401
01:04:18,703 --> 01:04:20,700
you know, it might be harder
to deal with.

1402
01:04:21,084 --> 01:04:22,500
PRESENTER:
There was action aplenty

1403
01:04:22,510 --> 01:04:23,902
in the Formula Ford event.

1404
01:04:24,002 --> 01:04:27,281
David Brabham in the yellow car
was about to lap Schumac

1405
01:04:27,381 --> 01:04:29,009
when he smashed
into the back of him.

1406
01:04:29,109 --> 01:04:30,660
YOUNG DAVID:
I'm coping pretty well.

1407
01:04:30,760 --> 01:04:32,542
I've still got a lot to learn,

1408
01:04:32,642 --> 01:04:34,562
through what Dad's
telling me and that.

1409
01:04:35,483 --> 01:04:38,786
DAVID: When I was at the
Australian Grand Prix in 1987,

1410
01:04:39,246 --> 01:04:41,489
my girlfriend got pregnant
that year,

1411
01:04:41,589 --> 01:04:44,253
and I didn't qualify
particularly well.

1412
01:04:44,353 --> 01:04:46,542
I was last, 30 something.

1413
01:04:47,195 --> 01:04:51,971
Just before the race, my father
had a Formula One pass,

1414
01:04:52,071 --> 01:04:54,467
and I said, you know,
"You better get me one of those

1415
01:04:54,567 --> 01:04:56,487
for when I'm in Formula One."

1416
01:04:56,948 --> 01:04:58,537
Didn't know what else to say,
you know,

1417
01:04:58,637 --> 01:04:59,805
and he just said, "You know,

1418
01:04:59,905 --> 01:05:02,400
the days of you ever getting
to Formula One are finished."

1419
01:05:03,821 --> 01:05:06,624
And he just, like, deadpan,
dead serious.

1420
01:05:07,008 --> 01:05:10,518
And that just triggered
a switch in me,

1421
01:05:10,618 --> 01:05:12,399
and I told him to fuck off,

1422
01:05:12,499 --> 01:05:14,419
and I walked off.

1423
01:05:14,880 --> 01:05:18,428
And I had steam coming out
of my--

1424
01:05:18,528 --> 01:05:19,963
I was so angry,

1425
01:05:20,063 --> 01:05:22,675
so incredibly pissed off
with him,

1426
01:05:23,404 --> 01:05:26,706
that I took that energy

1427
01:05:27,014 --> 01:05:28,933
and took it into the race car.

1428
01:05:29,740 --> 01:05:34,424
And turned it into...
let's call it determination.

1429
01:05:34,847 --> 01:05:36,052
"I'm gonna fucking show you."

1430
01:05:36,152 --> 01:05:40,491
[DRAMATIC MUSIC PLAYING]

1431
01:05:48,171 --> 01:05:49,913
MAN: Jack Brabham,
keeping an eye

1432
01:05:49,923 --> 01:05:51,719
on young son David.

1433
01:05:51,819 --> 01:05:53,485
DAVID: And I got in that car
and I said,

1434
01:05:53,585 --> 01:05:56,250
"You tell those guys in front
of me that I'm coming through.

1435
01:05:56,350 --> 01:05:58,285
They'd better
get out of my way."

1436
01:05:58,385 --> 01:06:01,933
Boom, off I went, and drove
ten notches higher

1437
01:06:02,033 --> 01:06:04,121
than I've ever driven
up until that point.

1438
01:06:04,221 --> 01:06:05,657
MAN: Young David
made a slow start

1439
01:06:05,757 --> 01:06:07,308
but he's come back
through the pack.

1440
01:06:07,408 --> 01:06:10,787
Yes, actually,
David is actually third now.

1441
01:06:11,171 --> 01:06:14,911
I went from 35th to 1st
in 14 laps

1442
01:06:15,011 --> 01:06:16,931
and won the race in 15.

1443
01:06:18,429 --> 01:06:20,924
That whole experience for me
was my gift

1444
01:06:21,424 --> 01:06:26,223
because I discovered something
about the mental mindset,

1445
01:06:27,030 --> 01:06:30,831
and what can be created
by that.

1446
01:06:32,866 --> 01:06:35,301
It was a magic lesson for me

1447
01:06:35,401 --> 01:06:37,320
because I carried
that through my career.

1448
01:06:40,776 --> 01:06:44,362
I think as I got older,
you start to understand

1449
01:06:44,462 --> 01:06:46,513
more about what Jack
actually achieved,

1450
01:06:46,613 --> 01:06:49,262
and it's so big, so vast.

1451
01:06:49,608 --> 01:06:52,680
Probably was a negative

1452
01:06:52,987 --> 01:06:55,483
because I--
My attitude was

1453
01:06:56,174 --> 01:06:58,900
"Well, I'll never get that far,
but how far could I get?"

1454
01:07:02,510 --> 01:07:05,673
[CHUCKLES]
We actually met at--

1455
01:07:05,773 --> 01:07:07,593
initially we met
at a racetrack.

1456
01:07:07,693 --> 01:07:09,475
You know, I grew up
with motor sport,

1457
01:07:09,575 --> 01:07:11,495
so it just seemed normal.

1458
01:07:12,685 --> 01:07:14,774
DAVID: I had had
a very successful

1459
01:07:14,874 --> 01:07:17,001
Formula Three season in 1989.

1460
01:07:17,101 --> 01:07:19,865
I'd won the British F3
Championship and the World Cup,

1461
01:07:20,365 --> 01:07:23,644
and I'm at home, doing my thing,
and the phone rings,

1462
01:07:23,744 --> 01:07:26,447
and it's the Brabham
Formula One team saying,

1463
01:07:26,547 --> 01:07:28,098
"How would you like to come out?

1464
01:07:28,198 --> 01:07:30,095
We want you to be
in Formula One."

1465
01:07:30,195 --> 01:07:31,438
"What?"
[CHUCKLES]

1466
01:07:31,538 --> 01:07:33,458
You know, it was like,
"Are you serious?"

1467
01:07:37,951 --> 01:07:39,871
Money.

1468
01:07:40,754 --> 01:07:42,651
Yeah, I ended up driving
for a team

1469
01:07:42,751 --> 01:07:44,532
that ran out of money.
[CHUCKLES]

1470
01:07:44,632 --> 01:07:46,106
ANNOUNCER:
This is his first outing

1471
01:07:46,115 --> 01:07:47,566
in a Formula One car.

1472
01:07:47,666 --> 01:07:49,562
And the preparation
for his race debut

1473
01:07:49,662 --> 01:07:51,789
in less than two weeks
will be rushed.

1474
01:07:51,889 --> 01:07:53,863
You turn up
at the workshop,

1475
01:07:53,963 --> 01:07:56,128
and your car is still there
with no engine in it.

1476
01:07:56,228 --> 01:07:57,471
"What's happening?"
"No one's paid

1477
01:07:57,481 --> 01:07:58,816
for the engines yet."

1478
01:07:58,916 --> 01:08:01,143
"So, are we gonna
make the race?" "Don't know."

1479
01:08:01,719 --> 01:08:04,230
YOUNG DAVID: The goal
at the moment is to qualify

1480
01:08:04,330 --> 01:08:06,342
and to finish the race.

1481
01:08:06,442 --> 01:08:08,761
LISA: Sadly, it turned out
to be a very difficult season,

1482
01:08:08,861 --> 01:08:11,948
and maybe it defined us,
maybe it helped us as a couple.

1483
01:08:12,048 --> 01:08:13,984
It certainly proved
that we could stick together

1484
01:08:14,084 --> 01:08:15,711
whether it was good,
bad or ugly.

1485
01:08:15,811 --> 01:08:19,267
[UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYING]

1486
01:08:20,074 --> 01:08:22,570
DAVID: It was just a mess,
an absolute mess.

1487
01:08:22,915 --> 01:08:24,773
But then I went into
sports car racing,

1488
01:08:24,873 --> 01:08:26,793
and really found my niche.

1489
01:08:32,169 --> 01:08:33,604
YOUNG DAVID: Well,
I have to say,

1490
01:08:33,614 --> 01:08:35,102
that was an absolute blast.

1491
01:08:35,202 --> 01:08:37,391
You know, dicing for the lead
the whole way.

1492
01:08:38,889 --> 01:08:40,555
[ENGINES REVVING]

1493
01:08:40,655 --> 01:08:43,688
[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE]

1494
01:08:44,687 --> 01:08:46,737
GRAYSON: We lived a lot nearer
to the edge,

1495
01:08:46,837 --> 01:08:49,141
you know,
when we stopped evolving.

1496
01:08:50,408 --> 01:08:54,440
I often think about, you know,
what we need out of modern life.

1497
01:08:56,206 --> 01:08:59,600
Sportsmen being in control
of a motor vehicle,

1498
01:08:59,700 --> 01:09:01,367
you're in the moment.

1499
01:09:01,467 --> 01:09:05,153
It's that kind of dance
of physics and mechanics,

1500
01:09:06,267 --> 01:09:09,238
and they carry it out
to the nth degree,

1501
01:09:09,338 --> 01:09:13,447
right on the edge
of the envelope of their skill.

1502
01:09:13,985 --> 01:09:16,841
And that is happiness.

1503
01:09:16,941 --> 01:09:19,744
It's the Everest of...

1504
01:09:20,743 --> 01:09:22,739
feeling alive, I suppose.

1505
01:09:23,546 --> 01:09:25,926
You just find
that they are very selfish.

1506
01:09:26,886 --> 01:09:29,421
He's probably one
of the better sportsmen.

1507
01:09:31,264 --> 01:09:34,351
DAVID: There was a lot
of similarities between

1508
01:09:34,451 --> 01:09:37,446
me as a kid with my dad,
and the kids with myself.

1509
01:09:39,020 --> 01:09:40,725
I was away a lot as well.

1510
01:09:40,825 --> 01:09:42,606
ANNOUNCER: ...the great race
at Le Mans

1511
01:09:42,706 --> 01:09:44,526
and there is an Aussie there,
David Brabham.

1512
01:09:44,626 --> 01:09:47,329
DAVID: It's just you get into
this mindset that you kind of

1513
01:09:47,429 --> 01:09:50,017
forget about other things
around you

1514
01:09:50,117 --> 01:09:52,114
and some of those times
it was family stuff.

1515
01:09:52,421 --> 01:09:54,625
The most important thing
is the next corner.

1516
01:09:54,725 --> 01:09:57,029
You get to the limit, you know,
there's another limit.

1517
01:09:57,643 --> 01:10:00,500
Next one, next one, next one.

1518
01:10:00,600 --> 01:10:02,650
And there are things I know.
My wife turns around

1519
01:10:02,750 --> 01:10:04,340
and says,
"You're so like your father."

1520
01:10:04,440 --> 01:10:06,359
I was like, "Don't."

1521
01:10:08,932 --> 01:10:12,557
BERNIE: I think it's not a case
of when a guy starts.

1522
01:10:12,657 --> 01:10:15,859
It's how long they've been
having to pack their bags,

1523
01:10:15,959 --> 01:10:17,664
go to their hotel,
leave their hotel,

1524
01:10:17,764 --> 01:10:20,951
go to the circuit, go testing,
and they get fed up.

1525
01:10:24,599 --> 01:10:26,518
DAVID: Depression plays a role
when you stop.

1526
01:10:27,555 --> 01:10:29,475
Of that there is no doubt.

1527
01:10:30,512 --> 01:10:32,432
You know it's the end
of your career,

1528
01:10:33,008 --> 01:10:35,235
you know you're not as fast
as you were.

1529
01:10:35,849 --> 01:10:39,459
I was shocked at how much
of a low I went into.

1530
01:10:40,495 --> 01:10:43,928
They're lost,
and I think it's hard for them.

1531
01:10:44,028 --> 01:10:45,502
They're used to people
just telling them

1532
01:10:45,602 --> 01:10:47,153
they're the best thing
since slice bread.

1533
01:10:47,253 --> 01:10:48,920
They are their successes.

1534
01:10:49,020 --> 01:10:50,302
Everybody wants a piece of you,

1535
01:10:50,402 --> 01:10:52,184
and suddenly the phone
doesn't ring.

1536
01:10:52,284 --> 01:10:55,294
[THUNDER RUMBLING]

1537
01:10:55,394 --> 01:11:01,960
[SUSPENSEFUL MUSIC PLAYING]

1538
01:11:03,150 --> 01:11:04,701
MAN: Tonight,
we're welcoming back

1539
01:11:04,801 --> 01:11:07,620
one of the great names
in motor racing.

1540
01:11:07,720 --> 01:11:10,653
The continuation
of the epic history of a story

1541
01:11:10,753 --> 01:11:13,341
that began with
a young Jack Brabham racing

1542
01:11:13,441 --> 01:11:15,952
that midget car
out there in the corner.

1543
01:11:16,052 --> 01:11:19,254
And Le Mans victories
for David and for Geoff

1544
01:11:19,354 --> 01:11:22,019
help keep the Brabham name
in the forefront.

1545
01:11:22,119 --> 01:11:24,500
And that's what we're
celebrating here tonight.

1546
01:11:25,152 --> 01:11:27,471
When I was 40,
I thought,

1547
01:11:27,571 --> 01:11:29,491
okay, what am I gonna do
in ten years' time?

1548
01:11:31,834 --> 01:11:34,037
So I started to think
about doing something

1549
01:11:34,137 --> 01:11:35,765
with the Brabham name.

1550
01:11:35,865 --> 01:11:37,839
I had no idea what or how,

1551
01:11:37,939 --> 01:11:39,936
I just felt there was
an opportunity.

1552
01:11:40,512 --> 01:11:41,986
GEOFF: I mean,
I have to be honest,

1553
01:11:42,086 --> 01:11:44,313
I don't know if Dad
was the best businessman.

1554
01:11:47,078 --> 01:11:49,151
Someone in Germany said,
"I own Brabham."

1555
01:11:54,220 --> 01:11:56,539
GEOFF: One of the foolish things
that my dad did

1556
01:11:56,639 --> 01:11:59,687
was that he lost control
of the name.

1557
01:11:59,787 --> 01:12:01,492
"What do you mean?
That's our name.

1558
01:12:01,592 --> 01:12:03,642
How can you--
how can you claim that?"

1559
01:12:03,742 --> 01:12:06,407
He knew nothing,
had no interest in marketing,

1560
01:12:06,507 --> 01:12:07,905
about selling himself,

1561
01:12:08,005 --> 01:12:09,978
about creating a brand
for himself.

1562
01:12:10,078 --> 01:12:11,322
This is a Japanese spanner.

1563
01:12:11,422 --> 01:12:14,279
Not a cheap Asian spanner,
but a quality hand tool.

1564
01:12:14,379 --> 01:12:15,891
And it's good. I know it's...

1565
01:12:15,991 --> 01:12:18,080
All those things were just
not part of his makeup.

1566
01:12:18,180 --> 01:12:21,843
If it was gonna cost Dad
five dollars to renew the name,

1567
01:12:21,943 --> 01:12:23,878
he wouldn't do it.
You know, it was... [LAUGHS]

1568
01:12:23,978 --> 01:12:26,028
DAVID: So, my dad and I
had a chat about it,

1569
01:12:26,128 --> 01:12:28,048
and we were gonna go to court.

1570
01:12:28,624 --> 01:12:30,828
Dad pulled out
at the last minute,

1571
01:12:30,928 --> 01:12:32,848
and said, "You're on your own."

1572
01:12:35,075 --> 01:12:36,742
There was a bit of anger,
I guess.

1573
01:12:36,842 --> 01:12:38,815
"How could you do this?"

1574
01:12:38,915 --> 01:12:41,081
It would've made life
a little bit more comfortable

1575
01:12:41,181 --> 01:12:43,100
and easier for us
and less stressful.

1576
01:12:43,984 --> 01:12:46,418
DAVID: So, do I go
into the lion's den

1577
01:12:46,518 --> 01:12:49,144
or do I--
do I walk away, you know?

1578
01:12:49,244 --> 01:12:51,870
And I chose to walk
into the lion's den,

1579
01:12:51,970 --> 01:12:54,750
which had felt like a lion's den
for seven years.

1580
01:12:54,850 --> 01:12:57,922
LISA: It was financially very
crippling for us as a family

1581
01:12:58,268 --> 01:13:01,355
and I think that, in a way,
energized David as well,

1582
01:13:01,455 --> 01:13:04,695
It's like "Right. If you don't--
if you're not willing to fight

1583
01:13:04,795 --> 01:13:06,615
to get your name back,
I'm gonna do it,

1584
01:13:06,715 --> 01:13:08,036
because I'm not letting it go.

1585
01:13:08,136 --> 01:13:10,493
But then it's mine, basically.

1586
01:13:10,593 --> 01:13:13,719
Any decisions now,
once this court case is over,

1587
01:13:13,819 --> 01:13:15,739
subject to winning it,
will be down to me."

1588
01:13:17,889 --> 01:13:21,283
DAVID: You've been cocooned
for 30 years

1589
01:13:21,383 --> 01:13:25,392
as a professional sportsman,
and that's all you know.

1590
01:13:25,492 --> 01:13:27,734
And then, all of a sudden,
you go into the real world

1591
01:13:27,834 --> 01:13:29,539
and you don't know how it works.

1592
01:13:29,639 --> 01:13:31,228
So then you're hard on yourself

1593
01:13:31,328 --> 01:13:33,340
because you don't know
how it works.

1594
01:13:33,440 --> 01:13:35,759
You know, the amount of times
I use Google to figure out

1595
01:13:35,859 --> 01:13:37,526
what someone said, you know,

1596
01:13:37,626 --> 01:13:39,407
because it was, like,
what the hell is that?

1597
01:13:39,507 --> 01:13:40,521
I had no idea.

1598
01:13:40,621 --> 01:13:42,441
And then you'd start
to lose confidence.

1599
01:13:42,541 --> 01:13:46,112
[CAR ENGINE REVVING]

1600
01:13:47,148 --> 01:13:50,466
DAVID: With perseverance
and support from the family,

1601
01:13:50,566 --> 01:13:51,733
I won the court case.

1602
01:13:51,833 --> 01:13:55,381
DAVID: Brabham, one of most
iconic names in motor sport,

1603
01:13:55,481 --> 01:13:57,339
is coming back.

1604
01:13:57,439 --> 01:14:00,181
We're coming back
with a completely new model

1605
01:14:00,281 --> 01:14:03,314
for the way the race team
is funded and run.

1606
01:14:03,852 --> 01:14:06,401
Be one of those to seize
this opportunity.

1607
01:14:06,501 --> 01:14:10,110
Come join us and become
the heartbeat of our race team.

1608
01:14:12,952 --> 01:14:16,730
DAVID: I took my wife out
to the coffee shop, penniless.

1609
01:14:16,830 --> 01:14:20,148
And a beggar came to the table,

1610
01:14:20,248 --> 01:14:22,897
and I thought I've got
one pound left in my pocket.

1611
01:14:23,780 --> 01:14:25,830
And I just pulled it out,
I gave it to him.

1612
01:14:25,930 --> 01:14:27,443
I said, "There you go,
off you go."

1613
01:14:27,543 --> 01:14:28,672
And off he went.

1614
01:14:28,772 --> 01:14:32,243
And I'm staring out the window,
going, "What can I do,

1615
01:14:32,343 --> 01:14:34,240
what can I do,
what can I do?"

1616
01:14:34,340 --> 01:14:36,528
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

1617
01:14:37,450 --> 01:14:40,575
And I ended up selling
my Le Mans-winning Rolex.

1618
01:14:40,675 --> 01:14:43,417
And of course we managed
to have a very successful

1619
01:14:43,517 --> 01:14:46,450
crowd-funding campaign
called Project Brabham.

1620
01:14:46,550 --> 01:14:48,984
DAVID: My father,
Sir Jack Brabham,

1621
01:14:49,084 --> 01:14:52,502
started out with little more
than talent and self-belief

1622
01:14:53,078 --> 01:14:55,858
and became the only person
ever to win

1623
01:14:55,958 --> 01:14:59,567
a Formula One World Championship
in a car he constructed.

1624
01:15:01,141 --> 01:15:02,424
DAVID: It was a great success.

1625
01:15:02,524 --> 01:15:04,996
It ultimately ended up
being about 300 grand.

1626
01:15:05,096 --> 01:15:07,016
But 300 grand
doesn't get you a race team.

1627
01:15:09,858 --> 01:15:11,409
You know,
we had a team of people

1628
01:15:11,509 --> 01:15:13,290
trying to work through that,

1629
01:15:13,390 --> 01:15:15,863
and, of course, you've had
one injection of cash,

1630
01:15:15,963 --> 01:15:17,553
there's no more money
coming in.

1631
01:15:17,653 --> 01:15:19,434
So you know
over a period of time

1632
01:15:19,534 --> 01:15:21,469
if you don't bring more cash in,

1633
01:15:21,569 --> 01:15:23,489
you're gonna run out of money.

1634
01:15:27,214 --> 01:15:29,072
Last weekend, David Brabham

1635
01:15:29,172 --> 01:15:31,990
drove his father's
famous Cooper-Climax T51

1636
01:15:32,090 --> 01:15:33,603
at Sebring in Florida.

1637
01:15:33,703 --> 01:15:35,984
You know
that when he was gonna go,

1638
01:15:36,084 --> 01:15:38,004
it was gonna be big news.

1639
01:15:38,541 --> 01:15:41,167
Driving the Cooper-Climax
really gave him a thrill.

1640
01:15:41,267 --> 01:15:42,376
-It meant so much to him.
-DAVID: One of those moments

1641
01:15:42,386 --> 01:15:43,471
in time

1642
01:15:43,571 --> 01:15:45,007
you'll never forget
where you were

1643
01:15:45,107 --> 01:15:46,582
when you got the call,
you know.

1644
01:15:46,682 --> 01:15:48,947
And it was my brother Geoff
who called me.

1645
01:15:49,293 --> 01:15:50,959
I received a phone call.

1646
01:15:51,059 --> 01:15:53,455
Dad had passed away,
and it was just a huge shock.

1647
01:15:53,555 --> 01:15:55,912
DAVID: He was going
to be doing dialysis,

1648
01:15:56,012 --> 01:15:57,141
because of his kidneys.

1649
01:15:57,241 --> 01:16:00,635
So, he was in the routine
of having to get up quite early

1650
01:16:00,735 --> 01:16:02,901
to get to the hospital
to do the dialysis

1651
01:16:03,001 --> 01:16:04,974
because he couldn't do it
at home.

1652
01:16:05,074 --> 01:16:06,664
NURSE: Okay.
And now for some local.

1653
01:16:06,764 --> 01:16:07,949
She's come back
with a cup of tea,

1654
01:16:07,959 --> 01:16:09,144
and he's gone in bed.

1655
01:16:10,911 --> 01:16:14,113
I went straight into
"Right, okay,

1656
01:16:14,213 --> 01:16:16,878
the press are gonna be
all over this soon.

1657
01:16:16,978 --> 01:16:18,913
We're gonna have
to have a statement,

1658
01:16:19,013 --> 01:16:21,447
I'm gonna have to tell
our PR people

1659
01:16:21,547 --> 01:16:22,791
that it's happened."

1660
01:16:22,891 --> 01:16:26,016
And you go-- you kind of go
into this mode,

1661
01:16:26,116 --> 01:16:29,856
which, in some way, I think
is a way of protecting you

1662
01:16:29,956 --> 01:16:32,145
from getting too involved
in the loss.

1663
01:16:33,604 --> 01:16:36,154
GEOFF: I spent more time
with him at the end of his life

1664
01:16:36,254 --> 01:16:39,033
than I ever did
at the beginning of my life.

1665
01:16:39,133 --> 01:16:42,105
And I had the opportunity
to probably get to know him

1666
01:16:42,205 --> 01:16:45,369
a little bit better, you know,
just before he died

1667
01:16:45,469 --> 01:16:47,888
than any other time
during his life.

1668
01:16:49,770 --> 01:16:52,957
DAVID: Certainly the last
ten years of Jack's life,

1669
01:16:53,264 --> 01:16:56,297
our relationship was as good
as it ever had been.

1670
01:16:57,948 --> 01:16:59,768
You kind of get older,
you get bit wiser.

1671
01:16:59,868 --> 01:17:04,783
You-- It doesn't pay
to judge other people's lives.

1672
01:17:05,206 --> 01:17:08,907
So, we actually had a--
had a really good end

1673
01:17:09,007 --> 01:17:10,927
to that relationship.

1674
01:17:26,747 --> 01:17:30,141
MAN: It's hopeless. See,
if I couldn't say those words,

1675
01:17:30,241 --> 01:17:32,675
and needed to look to try
and do it from memory,

1676
01:17:32,775 --> 01:17:34,695
I'd say something different.

1677
01:17:37,690 --> 01:17:40,893
It's a joy to see the BT brand
being honored

1678
01:17:40,993 --> 01:17:44,487
with a new and exciting
Brabham BT62.

1679
01:17:44,948 --> 01:17:46,537
I wish David all the best

1680
01:17:46,637 --> 01:17:49,033
as he takes Brabham
into the future.

1681
01:17:49,133 --> 01:17:51,567
Well, you've built the model
of a future,

1682
01:17:51,667 --> 01:17:53,587
now let's see how it handles.

1683
01:17:55,315 --> 01:17:57,481
DAVID: I got a call
from a contact of mine,

1684
01:17:57,581 --> 01:18:00,399
and said, "Look, I know
you've always been trying

1685
01:18:00,499 --> 01:18:02,895
to get the Brabham name
back out there

1686
01:18:02,995 --> 01:18:04,008
onto the world stage.

1687
01:18:04,108 --> 01:18:07,886
There's a group of people I know
that have got a vision as well,

1688
01:18:07,986 --> 01:18:09,945
and I think you guys
need to meet."

1689
01:18:12,786 --> 01:18:16,012
So I flew down to Adelaide,
and met with them.

1690
01:18:16,511 --> 01:18:18,561
You know, they wanted for me
to get involved,

1691
01:18:18,661 --> 01:18:21,771
and could we produce
a high-performance car.

1692
01:18:22,923 --> 01:18:24,666
SAM: I just wanted to get
Dad's perspective.

1693
01:18:24,766 --> 01:18:26,087
What do you...
How have you felt?

1694
01:18:26,187 --> 01:18:29,159
Yes, it's been just a whirlwind,
to be honest with you.

1695
01:18:29,259 --> 01:18:32,292
I'm sure after the event,
I'll sit back there and go, wow.

1696
01:18:33,214 --> 01:18:34,573
I'm so proud of him.

1697
01:18:34,673 --> 01:18:37,146
I think to see
what he's come from,

1698
01:18:37,246 --> 01:18:39,718
from being just a racing driver
who's done very well,

1699
01:18:39,818 --> 01:18:41,139
to the trials and tribulations

1700
01:18:41,239 --> 01:18:43,136
of learning about business
from scratch.

1701
01:18:43,236 --> 01:18:47,652
...global reveal
of the Brabham BT62.

1702
01:18:52,490 --> 01:18:54,410
The Brabham BT62.

1703
01:18:54,794 --> 01:18:56,959
To come out the other side
as a success

1704
01:18:57,059 --> 01:18:58,956
and with something
he truly believes in,

1705
01:18:59,056 --> 01:19:00,492
there's something to be said
for that,

1706
01:19:00,592 --> 01:19:04,101
and it's a good value and moral
to have as I grow up as well.

1707
01:19:04,201 --> 01:19:06,966
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

1708
01:19:08,732 --> 01:19:11,666
"He had an enormous amount
of grit and determination,

1709
01:19:11,766 --> 01:19:13,686
and never gave up,

1710
01:19:14,838 --> 01:19:17,041
which was demonstrated in 1959,

1711
01:19:17,141 --> 01:19:18,693
when he pushed his car
across the line

1712
01:19:18,793 --> 01:19:20,943
to win his first Formula One
World Championship."

1713
01:19:21,788 --> 01:19:24,322
Gonna start putting my shoes on,
because I gotta head.

1714
01:19:26,434 --> 01:19:28,354
LISA: I'm really proud of David.

1715
01:19:28,738 --> 01:19:31,978
I would say I'm prouder of him
for what he's done now,

1716
01:19:32,078 --> 01:19:34,052
post racing.

1717
01:19:34,152 --> 01:19:36,471
Taking on the court case
and taking on Brabham,

1718
01:19:36,571 --> 01:19:38,276
and saying,
"This has got to change,

1719
01:19:38,376 --> 01:19:40,411
this is what I want,
this is my dream."

1720
01:19:40,987 --> 01:19:43,022
I'm far prouder of him
doing that

1721
01:19:43,367 --> 01:19:45,379
because he's taken himself

1722
01:19:45,479 --> 01:19:47,399
absolutely out
of his comfort zone.

1723
01:19:48,743 --> 01:19:51,715
MAN: As you can see,
the car is lurking undercover

1724
01:19:51,815 --> 01:19:54,326
in the center of the
magnificent room behind me,

1725
01:19:54,426 --> 01:19:57,014
but we're also surrounded
by some amazing cars

1726
01:19:57,114 --> 01:19:59,226
from Brabham's history
and heritage.

1727
01:20:01,299 --> 01:20:03,695
We like to think we've done
what my father did

1728
01:20:03,795 --> 01:20:05,715
back in 1948,

1729
01:20:06,022 --> 01:20:08,403
backed ourselves
and got it done.

1730
01:20:09,632 --> 01:20:12,795
And developed a car
that absolutely has the right

1731
01:20:12,895 --> 01:20:16,198
to carry the Brabham name
into the future.

1732
01:20:19,845 --> 01:20:23,777
I personally don't think
David's actually grieved.

1733
01:20:23,877 --> 01:20:26,028
Realistically,
I don't think he's grieved.

1734
01:20:26,680 --> 01:20:29,253
[SOMBER MUSIC PLAYING]

1735
01:20:29,599 --> 01:20:33,262
LISA: And I think
part of the drive for this

1736
01:20:33,362 --> 01:20:35,397
does stem from his dad.

1737
01:20:36,587 --> 01:20:39,444
And although their relationship
obviously got so much better,

1738
01:20:39,544 --> 01:20:42,692
this, for him, is like
"This is what I did."

1739
01:20:46,916 --> 01:20:49,811
But also, I think it's important
that David does know

1740
01:20:49,911 --> 01:20:52,177
that he is David.

1741
01:20:52,906 --> 01:20:55,264
And you have to battle
with that, feeling part

1742
01:20:55,364 --> 01:20:57,744
of a legacy or whatever
you want to call it.

1743
01:20:59,319 --> 01:21:04,157
Because I can't say what's going
to have closure for David.

1744
01:21:04,502 --> 01:21:07,152
Whether it is just affirmation
that "Yes, I did this,"

1745
01:21:07,536 --> 01:21:11,084
or "Stuff you, you told me
this, that, and the other

1746
01:21:11,184 --> 01:21:13,910
when I was little,
and I've done it."

1747
01:21:14,217 --> 01:21:16,075
I don't know
which one it's gonna be.

1748
01:21:16,175 --> 01:21:18,095
I think we're on a 50/50
with that.

1749
01:21:30,383 --> 01:21:34,146
[PIANO MUSIC PLAYING]

1750
01:22:40,958 --> 01:22:44,606
["BLACK EYED BRUISER" PLAYING]

1751
01:22:53,745 --> 01:22:57,086
♪ If you see me
Walking down the street ♪

1752
01:22:58,046 --> 01:23:00,580
♪ Better get out my way ♪

1753
01:23:01,578 --> 01:23:04,612
♪ I'm a real king hitter ♪

1754
01:23:04,919 --> 01:23:07,007
♪ Always have my say ♪

1755
01:23:07,107 --> 01:23:10,218
♪ If you're looking
For a happy time ♪

1756
01:23:11,331 --> 01:23:14,096
♪ Best you don't come around ♪

1757
01:23:14,672 --> 01:23:17,590
♪ Or else
You'll get your heavy ♪

1758
01:23:17,897 --> 01:23:20,700
♪ Six feet of solid ground ♪

1759
01:23:21,084 --> 01:23:23,173
♪ I don't like trouble ♪

1760
01:23:23,273 --> 01:23:26,729
♪ But if trouble
Is the name of your game ♪

1761
01:23:27,804 --> 01:23:29,916
♪ You know where
You can find me, boy ♪

1762
01:23:30,492 --> 01:23:32,719
♪ Everybody knows my name ♪

1763
01:23:33,180 --> 01:23:35,829
♪ I'm the black eyed ♪

1764
01:23:36,712 --> 01:23:39,031
♪ The black eyed ♪

1765
01:23:39,131 --> 01:23:46,043
♪ The black eyed bruiser ♪