Brabham Automotive Is A New Car Maker With A Famous Old Name
David Brabham is launching a low-volume car brand using one of the most famous surnames in motorsport history.
The Australian racer has himself won the 24 Hours of Le Mans, plus the American Le Mans championship in 2009 and 2010, and his father, Sir Jack Brabham, is a three-time Formula One champion.
The newly-created Brabham Automotive announced itself in a Tweet yesterday, while David Brabham also Tweeted that he was “immensely proud” to declare the new brand. He wrote that it’s “an exciting new chapter for the iconic Brabham name.”
It follows ‘Project Brabham,’ a troubled attempt to crowd-fund a return to the track for the Brabham Racing team. It was hoped in 2014 that the team could start in the LMP2 endurance racing class before becoming a fully-fledged LMP1 constructor within a few years, but it has so far failed to produce a car.
Brabham Automotive is rumoured to be following a ‘racing car flagship first, road-going version second’ strategy, but we’ll bring you more confirmed details when we get them.
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Can’t wait to see what they have to offer!
When an old brand re enters, it’s either a disappointment or it’s fantastic! Let’s hope it’s that latter haha
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Will their cars sound like brab brab?
If they don’t make a rotary engined car, I’ll be truly disappointed.
99% of me says they won’t 😂 even though I want it lol
Brabham and Caterham. Two of these names have something in common. The word Ham
Brabham + Caterham = Batterham
David Brabham is an Australian
Robin Batterham is also an Australian
Coincidence??
Sounds awesome, although it would be even cooler if they returned to F1.
didn’t brabham create the six-wheeled f1 car
Nope that was tyrrell .
Nope. Tyrrell, Williams and March are the three F1 teams that built 6 wheeled F1 cars
They had the awsome fan car.
BRAPham
If they enter F1 once again, it will be much more entertaining as pretty much the only winning teams are Mercedes and Scuderia Ferrari.
I highly doubt that . Brabham probably don’t have enough money to enter f1 let alone beat ferrari and mercedes who both have ginormous 350milllion a year budgets .
True
Hype Hype Hype Hype
I wonder what their road cars will look like, considering Brabham didn’t make any road cars in the ‘60s.
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