Jack Brabham is the most successful Australian driver in history, having won three world titles. He entered one Grand Prix in each of the 1955 and 1956 seasons, eventually becoming a full-time driver with
Cooper. He finished on the podium in five of eight races in 1959, including two victories. That brought him his first title, which he retained the following year by winning five successive races. Regulation changes in 1961 saw a shake-up of teams and Cooper did not adapt; Brabham only finished two races. His knowledge of mechanics gave him the opportunity to set up his own outfit from 1961, and
Brabham would become a significant team in F1. History was made in 1966 when Jack Brabham became the first person to win the title in a car bearing their name. Jack Brabham had three sons, two of whom went into Formula One.
Gary Brabham failed to qualify in two attempts during the 1990 season. He won the title in 1980, winning five races and featuring on the podium ten times, He began his career with
Minardi in 2002 before a two-year stint with Jaguar. Offered the choice of driving for Williams or Renault, Webber opted for the former, a team with many previous successes. Renault, however, produced a championship-winning car for the next two seasons as
Fernando Alonso won the 2005 and 2006 Drivers' titles. Webber only managed to finish 10th and 14th in the championship and soon returned to his previous team, now running under the name
Red Bull. In his third season with the team (2009) Webber scored his maiden race wins at Nürburgring and Interlagos. The following year he came close to winning the title, losing it after a poor pit stop in the final race pushed him down to eighth place with teammate
Sebastian Vettel taking that year's honour. He took part in four races for
De Tomaso, leaving at the end of the season to join Brabham alongside
Graham Hill. He achieved his only podium finish at the
1971 Austrian Grand Prix and left the team at the end of the year because of his concern about the management ability of new Brabham boss
Bernie Ecclestone. He started three races in the 1952 but only finished one, coming in 14th. He had joined Red Bull in 2009 as a test driver and was promoted to reserve driver for the following year. He was loaned to
HRT in the second half of the 2011 season and joined
Toro Rosso as a full-time driver in 2012. After staying with Toro Rosso for 2013, Ricciardo moved to
Red Bull Racing for 2014, where he stayed until the end of 2018, winning 7 races and achieving 29 podiums. He moved to
Renault team for the 2019 season, and achieved 2 podiums with them at the
2020 Emilia Romagna and
2020 Eifel Grands Prix. From to he drove for
McLaren, giving the team their first win in 9 years with his victory at the
2021 Italian Grand Prix. Although he had a contract to drive for the team in 2023, it was terminated during the 2022 championship by mutual agreement. For , after initially acting as Red Bull Racing's third driver, he replaced
Nyck de Vries at
Scuderia AlphaTauri from the
Hungarian Grand Prix onwards. He was replaced by
Liam Lawson twice: first during an interim period after Ricciardo broke his hand following practice for the
2023 Dutch Grand Prix, and the second time from the
2024 United States Grand Prix onwards.
Other former drivers Eight other drivers have competed in at least one race: •
Larry Perkins •
David Walker •
Vern Schuppan •
Frank Gardner •
Paul Hawkins •
Paul England •
Warwick Brown •
Jack Doohan Two further drivers took part in at least one qualification session but did not start a race: •
Brian McGuire •
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