Motor Racing Components (MRC) MkII built in Australia and successfully campaigned by Lionel Ayres. Powered by a 5 litre Repco Brabham V8 feeding through a Hewland DG300 gearbox.
Dave Charlton fettling his Brabham BT11 to which he has just bolted a ‘brand spankers’ 3 litre Repco F1 RB620 V8… I must admit this shot as a ‘who, what, where and when’ had me tossed! I thought the face was familiar, but given it was from Nigel Tait’s Repco Photographic Archive I figured it…
This interview has been provided by Luke Ray as part of a new collaborative alliance between Fuel Magazine and Silodrome. Peter Simms, like most of the
Goodwood Festival of Speed 2011 The Repco Brabham BT24 was a Formula One racing car design. It was one of three cars used by the Brabham racing team during their championship-winning 1967 Formula One season. Only three BT24 chassis were ever raced. Designed by Ron Tauranac, the BT24 was somewhat behind the times in having a spaceframe chassis and the underpowered Oldsmobile-derived Repco V8 engine. Compared with the Lotus 49, which had debuted a race earlier in Holland, the Brabham seemed almost obsolete, but its better reliability made it the tortoise to Lotus's hare. With reigning champion Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme at the wheel, the BT24 took 3 wins to the Jim Clark's 4 in the Lotus, but with six 2nd places, two 3rds, a 4th and a 5th the Brabham team comfortably took the Constructors' Championship, while Hulme pipped team-owner Brabham to the Drivers' Championship by 5 points. In addition to its three championship race wins the BT24 also won the prestigious 1967 International Gold Cup at Oulton Park in the hands of Jack Brabham. Wikipedia
Brabham-Repco BT-19 Car: Brabham-Repco / Engine: V-8 Oldsmobile / Maker: Brabham / Bore X Stroke: 88.9 X 60.3 mm / Year: 1966 Capacity: 2,996 cc / Class: Formula 1 / Power: 315 bhp at 7,800 rpm / Wheelbase: 91 in Track: 56 in / Weight: 1,259 lbs / Tires: Originally 13 in front and rear were upgraded to 8×15 in the front and 10×15 in the rear No Subscription? You’re missing out Get immediate ad-free access to all our premium […]
Musée du Mans Exposition GP de l'ACF 1967
Jack Brabham shakes down his 1968 Tasman contender the Brabham BT23E Repco for Sydney's media at Oran Park, 14 February 1968... Nestled in the back is Repco's latest 'RB740' 275bhp 2.5 litre V8, the Tasman variant of Brabham's successful 1967 F1 3 litre (330bhp) engine. Denny Hulme took the drivers title from Jack in a…
The 1966 Brabham-Repco BT20 Formula 1 car is a testament to old fashioned Aussie ingenuity, the Australians (and New Zealanders) have always been so far
Jack Brabham winning the 1969 Australian Gold Star Series event at Easter Bathurst in his Brabham BT31 Repco...he is heading across Mount Panorama between 'Skyline' and 'The Dipper'... Introduction... Those who have read the first three Repco articles may recall that we have been chronologically going through the history of Repco's F1 and Race Engine…
Brabham BT24 Repco - Chassis: BT24-2 - Entrant: Private Collection - 2015 Chantilly Arts & Elegance
How many Repco Brabham Engines Pty. Ltd. race V8's were built during the 1965 to 1969 period of the companies existence?... Not sure that I know the answer in full. Lets build a list which will be ongoing Work In Progress as we determine the number built, the car they were initially fitted to, a…
DONINGTON | GRAND PRIX COLLECTION #3
Cars don't just appear, they evolve, built on the technology and the style of what came before. Every now and then, it's useful to take a step back, appreciate history, and get a glimpse of how today's efforts stand in the pantheon of preceding hardware.
From the camera it is Jack Brabham, Brabham-Repco, Denny Hulme, Brabham-Repco) and Jim Clark, Lotus-Climax
The Story of the Repco-Brabham V8 Racing Engine as conveyed in Repco Technical News Volume 12 No 2, November 1965... This gem is from Michael Gasking’s Collection and is reproduced in all of its glory, this is the 1966 Tasman/F1 engine later more commonly referred to as ‘RB620’, its internal Repco Parts Co project code…
The progressive conclusion of the very successful business relationship between Repco and Jack Brabham throughout 1969 led to another race winning Repco program with General Motors Holden, an F5000 V8 which first raced in 1970... Common elements of both programs were the Tasman 2.5 litre Formula and engineer Phil Irving. Jack Brabham's brainchild for a…
One of my favourite Facebook pages is the Repco-Brabham one Jay Bondini started for us Repco nutters yonks ago. It's chock full of good stuff, much of it contributed by the boys who produced the RBE V8 magic at Maidstone in the day- it has cred you might say! This shot gave me a chuckle.…
In 1966-’67, Repco-powered Brabhams won the F1 constructor’s championship and delivered driver’s titles for Jack Brabham and Denny Hulme. The introduction of the all-new Repco Brabham BT26 for the 1968 season was meant to keep the team atop the standings, but instead, the new car finished just two races (actually, a single race, but with…
John Harvey in Bob Jane’s McLaren M6B Repco-Brabham V8 nailing Warwick Farm’s Esses on May 2 1971. The late Australian champion, who died on December 20, 2020, raced so many different cars during a career from fifties speedway to noughties historic racing gave a big editorial challenge, what photograph to choose for the opening shot.…
I thought it would be interesting to make a series of posters for this year's F1 season, but using only cars from the 1960's era. The concept was a pencil sketch, with the final piece built entirely in Adobe Illustrator. The car featured is Australian Jack Brabham's championship winning Repco-Brabham, hence the '1' and the green and gold.
