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      • Jack Brabham's three world championships were the product of both his engineering expertise and driving skill. His first two titles, in rear-engined Coopers he helped develop, confirmed the obsolescence of front-engined Formula 1 cars. His third title, in a Brabham, made him the only driver to become champion in a car of his own make.
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  2. Brabham (8) beat his bright prodigy Jacky Ickx to pole at Mexico in ’69, but ceded best to him in the race. Yet both were defeated by Hulme, driving for another great Antipodean driver ...

  3. Jack Brabham's three world championships were the product of both his engineering expertise and driving skill. His first two titles, in rear-engined Coopers he helped develop, confirmed the obsolescence of front-engined Formula 1 cars. His third title, in a Brabham, made him the only driver to become champion in a car of his own make.

  4. The next year, 1959, Brabham and the Cooper works team became the first to win the Formula One World Championship in a rear-engined car. Both team and driver repeated the feat in 1960, and every World Champion since has been sitting in front of the engine.

  5. It was the first F1 title to be won with a rear-engined car, and also the first drivers' crown earned with a British manufacturer - although Vanwall had secured the inaugural constructors'...

  6. Lewis Hamilton equaled Schumacher's record in 2020, winning one with McLaren and six with Mercedes. Juan Manuel Fangio won the World Drivers' Championship five times with Alfa Romeo, Maserati, Mercedes and Ferrari. He held the record from 1955 until 2003.

  7. The Ferrari 156 'sharknose' was the first Ferrari Formula 1 car to win the constructors' championship - and its first rear-engined success story. It also carried Phil Hill to the 1961 title...

  8. At the season-opening Argentinian Grand Prix, Stirling Moss gives Cooper its first win in a World Championship event and is also the first Championship win for a rear-engined car, a private entrant (Rob Walker), and the Coventry Climax engine.

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