Ron Tauranac 1925-2020
OBITUARY
Ron Tauranac, who has died aged 95, designed the Formula 1 Brabhams that won the world championship in 1966 and 1967. Yet his success in grand prix racing arguably wasn’t the greatest achievement of his long career. Perhaps more important were the scores of junior single-seaters that sprung from his drawing board to set so many drivers on the road to F1.
The operation that Tauranac ran together with fellow Australian Sir Jack Brabham wasn’t just a successful F1 team in the 1960s. Motor Racing Developments, the manufacturing arm of their company, was the world’s largest racing car constructor through the second
