Jack Brabham's 1969 BT31 Repco V8 - On Track!

We feature Jack Brabhams BT31 at the Phillip Island Classic.

Multiple Formula One world champion Jack Brabham's BT31 Repco V8 has an interesting history and is one of the very few if not the only such car still being raced in anger. It only raced twice, Jack Brabham finishing third in the Sandown Park Tasman race in March 1969. Brabham placed the car fifth on the grid, behind Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt in the works Lotus 49Bs, Chris Amon's Ferrari Dino, and Piers Courage in Frank Williams' 1967 ex-F1 Brabham BT24. He got ahead of Courage at the start and finished third behind Amon and Rindt, then continued on winning a Gold Star race at Bathurst, breaking the lap record on his way to an easy victory before returning to Europe for the F1 season. That would be the last time the car was raced in that period.

Jack Brabham along with engineer and race car designer Ron Tauranac founded the Brabham constructor and racing team in 1962.

The BT31 was one of series of designs and the BT31 was built for the 1969 Tasman series, fitted with a Repco 830 V8 engine, as used on the previous year's Brabham BT23E, backed by a Hewland FT200 transmission. The engine used the 30-series crossflow head with single cam per bank, on the short 800 series block.

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