Prior to sponsorships,
Brabham raced in turquoise with a gold band running across the car. This later changed to green and gold, the
racing colours of Australia, as a mark of the nationality of the team's owner
Jack Brabham. A Brabham car was the first
Formula One car painted in the livery of a team's sponsor when
Team Gunston as a
privateer team entered a private
Brabham car at the first race of the season (the
1968 South African Grand Prix). In 1975 and 1976, Brabham received sponsorship from
Martini; in 1976 the color scheme changed from white to red with light blue trim. The primary sponsor changed to
Parmalat in 1978, with the cars retaining a variant of the same red and blue colors. With the team's switch to BMW engines in 1982, the new livery consisted of a clean dark blue and white with a stylized BMW "kidney grille" on the nose. This scheme was retained throughout the BMW years, even through a sponsorship change to
Olivetti in 1985, until 1989. (This unusual representation of the engine supplier, specifically BMW, in the color scheme was revived by Williams when they debuted their own BMW cars in 2000.) In 1989, Brabham signed with Bioptron, a brand of
Zepter International, which continued until the team was bought by Middlebridge Group. Since then, it was sponsored by many Japanese companies like Garage Italiya, a company that imports Italian cars in Japan, Autobacs, Nippon Shinpan, and Mitsukoshi. In its final season Brabham raced in blue and pink livery of the Japanese metal group
Seikima-II. File:1971 Race of Champions G Hill Brabham BT34.jpg|
Graham Hill driving the
BT34, a car used from 1971-1972. File:1974 Brands Hatch Race of Champions Reutemann Brabham BT44.jpg|
Carlos Reutemann driving the all-white
BT44, a car used from 1974-1976. File:2001 Goodwood Festival of Speed Brabham BT46B Fan car.jpg|The
BT46B "fan car", with main sponsor Parmalat. File:Piquetmonaco.jpg|
Nelson Piquet's
BT49C in Parmalat livery at
Monaco in 1981. File:Brabham BMW BT54 Turbo 1985 vr TCE.jpg|From 1985 until 1988, Brabham raced in Olivetti livery File:Brabham BT60 - Donington Park.JPG|The
Brabham BT60B in its blue and pink livery. ==Brawn GP==