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Jack Brabham - Another of the Greats gone...
« on: May 19, 2014, 01:50:00 pm »
A glass to be raised in memory of another of the all-time motorsport greats who has now gone to the grid in the sky.  Still the only man to have won the F1 world championship in his own car. 

Thoughts with his family and friends. RIP Black Jack.

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Re: Jack Brabham - Another of the Greats gone...
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2014, 02:00:07 pm »
See Newswatch board for links on the passing of JB.

http://www.clubarnage.com/forum/index.php?board=20.0

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Re: Jack Brabham - Another of the Greats gone...
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2014, 05:10:23 pm »
Another great loss, but no one goes on forever and he had a better run than many of the generations around him.  A toast in memory of will be offered, RIP Black Jack.

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Re: Jack Brabham - Another of the Greats gone...
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2014, 06:18:54 pm »
RIP indeed

The stuff of legends, build the car, race the car, rule the world.

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Re: Jack Brabham - Another of the Greats gone...
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2014, 07:43:04 pm »
RIP Jack

The only man to win a world championship by walking over the finish line.
That will never happen again!!

A true great
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Re: Jack Brabham - Another of the Greats gone...
« Reply #5 on: May 19, 2014, 09:00:28 pm »
Sad to see the passing of a titan of the sport.  His F1 career spanned the days of Fangio, Moss, and Hawthorn, to the era of Stewart, Rindt, and Ickx.
Triple world champ, and when he and John Cooper took their little "Funny Car" to Indy in 1961, it turned the US racing scene on its head the way they had in Europe.
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