| dbo:abstract | - John Newton Cooper CBE (17 de juliol de 1923 – 24 de desembre de 2000) va ser cofundador, emb el seu pare Charles Cooper, de la Cooper Car Company. Nascut a , Surrey, Anglaterra, RU es va convertir en una llegenda del motor amb el seu disseny de xassís amb motor posterior que eventualment canvià la cara d'aquest esport en el seu nivell més alt, des de a l'Indianapolis 500. (ca)
- John Cooper CBE (* 17. Juli 1923 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey; † 24. Dezember 2000) war ein britischer Automobil-Konstrukteur und Nachkriegs-Rennfahrer, der auch erfolgreiche Rennwagen baute. 1946 gründete er zusammen mit seinem Vater Charles die Cooper Car Company, die sich schon bald zu einem erfolgreichen Formel-3- und Formel-2-Rennwagenproduzenten entwickelte. Einige Jahre später war sein größter Einfluss auf die Formel 1 die Konstruktion des Mittelmotorwagens, bei dem der Motor nicht wie damals üblich vor dem Fahrer, sondern hinter ihm platziert wurde. Die ersten Siege feierte der Cooper in der Saison 1958, in den Jahren 1959 und 1960 wurde Jack Brabham auf Cooper sogar Weltmeister. Bis Ende der 1960er-Jahre fuhren die Autos von John Cooper Formel-1-Rennen, zu den bekanntesten Cooper-Piloten neben Jack Brabham zählten Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren und Jochen Rindt. 1965 verkaufte John Cooper sein Formel-1-Team. John Cooper baute aber nicht nur Formel-1-Autos, ebenso erfolgreich war er mit dem Tuning des Mini, der in den 1960ern als Mini Cooper in Rallyes erfolgreich war und zum Kultauto wurde. John Cooper starb im Jahr 2000 77-jährig an Krebs. (de)
- John Newton Cooper (17 de julio de 1923 - 24 de diciembre de 2000) fue cofundador, con su padre Charles Cooper, de la Cooper Car Company. Es recordado principalmente por diseñar el primer chasis con motor trasero en la Fórmula 1, lo que pocos años más tarde se convertiría en la habitual en esta categoría y en el resto de monoplazas de competición. (es)
- John Newton Cooper CBE (17 July 1923 – 24 December 2000) was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom, he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change the face of the sport at its highest levels, from Formula One to the Indianapolis 500. Charles Cooper ran a small garage in Surbiton that specialised in maintaining racing cars. His son John left school at age 15 to become an apprentice toolmaker and served in the Royal Air Force as an instrument maker in World War II. After the war, he and his father began building simple, inexpensive single-seat racers for privateers, often from surplus military hardware. The cars were extremely successful and quickly in high demand, and in 1948, they founded their own company to build more. In stereotypical British fashion, Cooper always downplayed the story about how they decided to put the engine in the back of their racing cars, insisting it was a matter of convenience. The original design for the first rear-engined Cooper racing car was drawn up by Owen Maddock, a designer employed by Cooper Car Company.Because the car was powered by a motorcycle engine, they put the engine in the back, driving a chain. "We certainly had no feeling that we were creating some scientific breakthrough!...We put the engine at the rear...because it was the practical thing to do," Cooper said. Initially, John raced his own cars on a regular basis, but as the company grew, he found less time available to compete. He did, however, find time to set a number of records at Montlhéry at the end of 1953. In the early 1950s, it seemed as if every aspiring young British racing driver began behind the wheel of a Cooper, and Cooper's Formula One cars were driven by the legendary drivers of the time – Jack Brabham, Stirling Moss, Maurice Trintignant, and Bruce McLaren. In a nine-year period, the team took 16 Grand Prix wins, as Brabham and the team won back-to-back World Championships in 1959 and 1960. While in Sebring, Florida, for the 1959 United States Grand Prix, Cooper got to know American driver Rodger Ward, the reigning USAC national champion and Indianapolis 500 winner. After Ward had been astounded by the cornering ability of Cooper's little cars on the road course, he offered to arrange a test for them at Indianapolis Motor Speedway, saying, "You've got to try out your car around the Oval. Indy's waiting for you!" Cooper took one of his Formula One cars to the Speedway in the autumn of 1960, as drivers, constructors and racing personalities gathered in "amused tolerance, mixed with obvious curiosity," according to Cooper. When Brabham, an Indy rookie, began his warmup laps, he was unaware of the requirement to gradually build up his speed on the track. He clocked his second lap at 144.8 miles per hour, fast enough for the third row on the previous race's grid! Ward was so enthused, Cooper had to agree to let him drive the car, too. From that point, the Indianapolis establishment realised the writing was on the wall and the days of their front-engined roadsters were numbered. Within a few years, John Cooper's revolution of open-wheeled racing was complete. Cooper's development of the British Motor Corporation Mini – the Mini Cooper – was adored by both rally racers and ordinary road drivers. Before John Cooper's death, the Cooper name was licensed to BMW for the higher-performance versions of the cars, inspired by the original Mini, sold as the MINI. John, along with his son Mike Cooper, served in an advisory role to BMW and Rover's New MINI design team. Cooper was the last surviving Formula One team principal from the formative years of the sport, and he often lamented later in life that the fun had long since gone out of racing. He helped establish Britain's domination of motorsport technology, which continues today, and he received the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for his services to British motorsport. He remained head of the West Sussex family garage business (which had outlets for Mini Cooper at East Preston and Honda at Ferring) until his death at age 77 in 2000. (en)
- John Newton Cooper, dit John Cooper (17 juillet 1923 – 24 décembre 2000) est un ingénieur britannique, cofondateur de Cooper Car Company avec son père Charles Cooper. Né à Surbiton, dans le Grand Londres, il devient célèbre dans l'histoire du sport automobile et de la Formule 1 pour avoir réintroduit le concept du moteur en position centrale-arrière (initié par Auto Union dans les années 1930) sur ses monoplaces, tout d'abord sur ses voiturettes de Formule 3, le généralisant ensuite à toutes ses voitures de course. (fr)
- ジョン・ニュートン・クーパー（John Newton Cooper 、1923年7月17日 - 2000年12月24日）はクーパー・カー・カンパニーの共同創設者。父チャールズ・ニュートン・クーパー（Charles Newton Cooper ）とともに同社を設立した。 イングランドのサリーにあるキングストン・アポン・テムズで生まれたクーパーは、やがてF1やインディ500といった最高レベルのモータースポーツの容貌を一変させることになる、リアエンジン配置の車両設計によって伝説的存在となった。 (ja)
- John Newton Cooper, noto come John Cooper, (Surbiton, 17 luglio 1923 – Worthing, 24 dicembre 2000) è stato un ingegnere, pilota automobilistico e imprenditore britannico co-fondatore, insieme al padre Charles Cooper, della Cooper Car Company. Nato nel Surrey, è diventato noto per la progettazione di monoposto con il motore posteriore, tecnica che fu poi impiegata dalla Formula 1 alla 500 di Indianapolis. (it)
- John Cooper (ur. 17 lipca 1923 w Kingston upon Thames, zm. 24 grudnia 2000) – brytyjski konstruktor samochodów, współzałożyciel przedsiębiorstwa Cooper Car Company. (pl)
- John Newton Cooper, CBE (Surbiton, 17 de julho de 1923 — Worthing, 24 de dezembro de 2000), foi um engenheiro e projetista britânico. (pt)
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| rdfs:comment | - John Newton Cooper CBE (17 de juliol de 1923 – 24 de desembre de 2000) va ser cofundador, emb el seu pare Charles Cooper, de la Cooper Car Company. Nascut a , Surrey, Anglaterra, RU es va convertir en una llegenda del motor amb el seu disseny de xassís amb motor posterior que eventualment canvià la cara d'aquest esport en el seu nivell més alt, des de a l'Indianapolis 500. (ca)
- John Newton Cooper (17 de julio de 1923 - 24 de diciembre de 2000) fue cofundador, con su padre Charles Cooper, de la Cooper Car Company. Es recordado principalmente por diseñar el primer chasis con motor trasero en la Fórmula 1, lo que pocos años más tarde se convertiría en la habitual en esta categoría y en el resto de monoplazas de competición. (es)
- John Newton Cooper, dit John Cooper (17 juillet 1923 – 24 décembre 2000) est un ingénieur britannique, cofondateur de Cooper Car Company avec son père Charles Cooper. Né à Surbiton, dans le Grand Londres, il devient célèbre dans l'histoire du sport automobile et de la Formule 1 pour avoir réintroduit le concept du moteur en position centrale-arrière (initié par Auto Union dans les années 1930) sur ses monoplaces, tout d'abord sur ses voiturettes de Formule 3, le généralisant ensuite à toutes ses voitures de course. (fr)
- ジョン・ニュートン・クーパー（John Newton Cooper 、1923年7月17日 - 2000年12月24日）はクーパー・カー・カンパニーの共同創設者。父チャールズ・ニュートン・クーパー（Charles Newton Cooper ）とともに同社を設立した。 イングランドのサリーにあるキングストン・アポン・テムズで生まれたクーパーは、やがてF1やインディ500といった最高レベルのモータースポーツの容貌を一変させることになる、リアエンジン配置の車両設計によって伝説的存在となった。 (ja)
- John Newton Cooper, noto come John Cooper, (Surbiton, 17 luglio 1923 – Worthing, 24 dicembre 2000) è stato un ingegnere, pilota automobilistico e imprenditore britannico co-fondatore, insieme al padre Charles Cooper, della Cooper Car Company. Nato nel Surrey, è diventato noto per la progettazione di monoposto con il motore posteriore, tecnica che fu poi impiegata dalla Formula 1 alla 500 di Indianapolis. (it)
- John Cooper (ur. 17 lipca 1923 w Kingston upon Thames, zm. 24 grudnia 2000) – brytyjski konstruktor samochodów, współzałożyciel przedsiębiorstwa Cooper Car Company. (pl)
- John Newton Cooper, CBE (Surbiton, 17 de julho de 1923 — Worthing, 24 de dezembro de 2000), foi um engenheiro e projetista britânico. (pt)
- John Cooper CBE (* 17. Juli 1923 in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey; † 24. Dezember 2000) war ein britischer Automobil-Konstrukteur und Nachkriegs-Rennfahrer, der auch erfolgreiche Rennwagen baute. 1946 gründete er zusammen mit seinem Vater Charles die Cooper Car Company, die sich schon bald zu einem erfolgreichen Formel-3- und Formel-2-Rennwagenproduzenten entwickelte. Bis Ende der 1960er-Jahre fuhren die Autos von John Cooper Formel-1-Rennen, zu den bekanntesten Cooper-Piloten neben Jack Brabham zählten Stirling Moss, Bruce McLaren und Jochen Rindt. 1965 verkaufte John Cooper sein Formel-1-Team. (de)
- John Newton Cooper CBE (17 July 1923 – 24 December 2000) was a co-founder, with his father Charles Cooper, of the Cooper Car Company. Born in Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom, he became an auto racing legend with his rear-engined chassis design that would eventually change the face of the sport at its highest levels, from Formula One to the Indianapolis 500. Initially, John raced his own cars on a regular basis, but as the company grew, he found less time available to compete. He did, however, find time to set a number of records at Montlhéry at the end of 1953. (en)
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