Sir Jack Brabham, who died in 2014 at the age of 88, was a jack of all trades in motorsport, not to mention a universal genius. After the Second World War, the trained aircraft mechanic opened a small workshop in Sydney, where he mainly built and tinkered with midget cars for a racing friend. When it came to racing car technology, the self-taught and tinkerer Brabham taught himself everything, gaining knowledge and expertise through constant learning by doing - this is how the Brabham BT 30 Formula 2, which is the subject of the cover story in the April issue of Curbs, was created.
Decision on penultimate stage
80 cars with drivers from eight countries competed in the anniversary event of the AvD Histo-Monte. The starting field comprised vehicles from five decades from 22 different car brands that faced an epic battle from the "Col de Turin" in the French Alps to the port of Monte Carlo, which only decided victory or defeat on the very last day.
Caution please, dear friends of attractive, powerful youngtimers! If, like Nicolas Reiter, you live in an Escort hotspot, you could sooner or later be sitting in a Ford Escort RS 2000 MK I and turning the steering wheel. I wonder what that will feel like? Curbs has tried to find out in advance.
International Marijuana Smugglers Association
Since the late 1970s, a nickname had been circulating for the IMSA that the organizers didn't like at all. Some private racing drivers would turn up at the racetrack at short intervals with the latest and most expensive models. It was often surprising that they did not need sponsors. Had the drivers paid for everything out of their own pockets? The article reports on the somewhat different translation of IMSA.
For a very long time, he was the youngest world champion in Formula 1 history at the age of 25, in 1972, almost eight years younger than the average age of the world champions in the 1960s. Back then, the Brazilian Emerson Fittipaldi had come into Formula 1 with the cheerfulness of another hemisphere, appearing as a sunny boy, extremely sociable, friendly, sometimes funny, but also agile, the kind of guy to whom everything flies - and quite obviously at least a woman's man.
BMW is 100
No component of the R 32 was really new; the machine was based on the Helios motorcycle developed by Bayerische Flugzeugwerke in 1919. But the combination of components in the R 32 set standards and brought numerous advantages that made the concept a milestone for BMW and motorcycle history.
In the early 1960s, America experienced a great renaissance in motorsport - among other things due to the idea of a "simple" racing car based on the Volkswagen. The construction of Formula Vee racing cars in the USA was an initiative of the businessman Hubert L. Brundage, a successful tool dealer and VW dealer from Miami in Florida.
