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A new documentary seeks to cast on light on Australian sports legend Jack Brabham’s considerable achievements and legacy.
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Thanks, I will play it for my dad for Fathers Day .
My dad at 88 still has his CAMS license and knew Jack well enough to have his phone number (though were not close mates), and I was sometimes around when they were talking on the phone.. Dad would often arrange for Jack to speak at his car club as fundraisers for the Peter Mac Cancer Hospital as well as special events at Historic Racing Meets. He also had one of his designed (but not owned) race cars for a while (might even still have it as it is hard to keep track).
By the sound of it dad will know a lot more about Jack than what is in the documentary as over the years he regaled me with various stories about Jack whom he admired greatly. Mainly petrol head stuff .
Well just an update. I could not quite see dad for Father's Day and indeed had not seen him since July due in part restrictions and in part as my daughter who treats Covid 1 patients had moved back into home for several weeks which made any carer visits to my 88/86 year old parents way too risky.
With the daughter now moved out for several weeks and I took the opportunity
today to make a carers visit to drop in supplies and to fix a a few things now beyond dad, and yes to play the documentary for dad. Computers, Stan, the internet etc is something dad just never mastered.
Watching
BRABHAM with dad was certainly insightful. Jack Brabham was actually the patron of one of the car club's that dad created for 20 years. The Peninsula Boys, a club for old boys and their car toys an in the pic below they are both wearing the club cap and dad knew Jack reasonably well without being close mates.
So dad added a lot of stories to what was in the movie and when Jack Stewart initially struggled to remember the name of the Australian engineer involved with Jack dad knew it was immediately.
During the showing dad shared that he actually got to drive the car that Brabham won the the 1966 F1 World Championship in at the Winton Race Track. Something that he remembers most fondly.
Dad also shared quite a bit of extra information on Jack that would not be appropriate to share on a public forum on the family side of things. Nothing nasty, but yes probably symptomatic about someone so driven by racing and work.
Dad also did much of the the mechanical work on his own race and historic cars and that love of both driving as well as in the engineering of cars mean that they had much in common over the decades. though dad was strictly and an amateur and never at anywhere near Jack's lofty level.
Dad with Brabham at one of the many car rallies/race/events that dad ran. This one is at Athurs Seat, Dromana., which is a favoured site for hill climbs.
Dad in one of his many different race cars. This one is a puegot.
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