How Brabham Went Bust: The Biggest Team Downfall in F1 History
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Published 2024-01-07
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All Comments (21)
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There was a great quote on bring back V10s by Glenn Freeman that went something like "Brabham became competitive and uncompetitive depending on who had the keys to the factory that week". Not his exact words but it was something like that
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0:01 Funfact, If you look at the Monaco-Qualifiying in 1983 and 1992 you see that Brabham was nearyl 3 seconds faster in 1992. But they failed Qualifying in 1992 while Piquet was 6th on the grid in 1983. Shows how fast development can go.
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Brabhams downfall began in 85, thanks to the Pirelli,s , but the real nail in the coffin was the Dead of de Angelis , Which had a great effect on the whole team ,
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Brabham went from Champions to back markers in nine years before pulling out.
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I guess they were overachievers in the Piquet era. The team started to go downhill when he left. Liked the quirky livery of the 92 car
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They just lost everything that made them successful over a number of seasons. They lost their tire contract with Pirelli (which weren’t very good anyway), their engine contract with BMW, their star driver (Piquet), and their star designer (Gordon Murray, who became disillusioned after Elio de Angelis was killed in one of his cars, largely due to the lack of safety at the Ricard circuit). With all that gone and no one just as good to replace them with, then the team goes downhill.
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Hill created miracles with both the Brabham and the Arrows showing what a really good driver he is.
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I miss having Brabham and Lotus on the grid.
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yup the difference with McLaren and williams is that they had frank and ron ensuring their cyclic success throughout the 80s 90s 00s whereas Brabham lost eccelestone early and that was that for them
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Nice video as always, I've always wondered how that happened ngl
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Been loving the vids!
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"Bernie it's been 17 years since you bought McLaren, you had some good times and some bad times what do you remember best".
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I think the problem in F1 is is becoming more expensive to runs teams as cars get more complex and technical. The amount of equipment in the garage is way more costly today than it was in the 90's or 80s-50s . The sport has gone from a blue collar hobby for common folk to a multi billion dollar hi tec franchise . Today we have terrible drivers who bring money into the team to keep it afloat tell they get kicked out and replaced.
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Really underrated channel, shame I didn't found about it earlier
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I would say that the biggest team downfall is Lotus, Good vid though, thanks for sharing
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We can certainly put this squarely on old Bernie not giving a hoot about the team by the end. A sad end to a great constructor. Great video
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A well appreciated video!
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Whoa lot of comments already, this is good!
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Very well presented, new sub..
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Notice : Vandepoele moved to Fondmetal by Hungary race, he wasn't Hill's teammate anymore
