Repco Brabham BT19

Sir Jack Brabham is a Legend of the Australian Motorsport Hall of Fame.

The co-designers of his championship winning car, Ron Tauranac AO and Phil Irving MBE, are both members.

And in 2026, Australia celebrates the 60th anniversary of Jack becoming the only driver ever to win the world F1 title in a car of his own construction, his Repco Brabham BT19 has been uplifted to the country’s most prestigious recognition of motor racing achievement. Fittingly, 100 years since Jack’s birth, the car becomes the 100th inductee into the Hall of Fame.

In 1966, Jack persuaded Australian engineering company Repco to build him a three litre V8 to comply with new F1 regulations. Phil Irving, a genius, was at the forefront of its design. There was no time to construct a new chassis. Ron Tauranac made do with the simple space-frame BT19 he’d devised for the previous season.

History tells the story.

Jack won four of nine Grands Prix to claim his third world championship and his Repco Brabham trounced Ferrari by a massive 11 points in the constructors’ title.

Next year, it won again – this time 19 points clear of Lotus. Denny Hulme took the Drivers’ Championship. Jack was second.

The achievement will never be surpassed. The Repco Brabham BT19, now owned and curated by Repco, is an important part of the pantheon of Australia’s sporting pride – up there with Allan Bond’s America’s cup winning Australia 11.