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Geoff Brabham
Brabham at the2014 Indianapolis 500
Nationality	Australian
Born	(1952-03-20)20 March 1952 (age 73) Sydney,Australia
Retired	2001
Relatives	Jack Brabham (father) Matthew Brabham (son) Gary Brabham (brother) David Brabham (brother) Sam Brabham (nephew) Lisa Thackwell (sister in law)
Australian Super Touring Championship
Years active	1995–1997
Teams	BMW Motorsport Australia
Starts	48
Wins	9
Best finish	2nd in1995 &1997 Australian Super Touring Championship
Previous series
1974 1975 1978 1979 1981–87, 1990, 1992, 1994 1979–81 1987–92 1989–94 1993–2001	Australian Formula Ford Australian Formula 2 British Formula One Championship Formula Super Vee Indycar Can-Am IMSA GT Championship IROC V8 Supercar
Championship titles
1975 1979 1981 1988 1989 1990 1991	Australian Formula 2 Championship SCCA Super Vee Championship Can-Am IMSA GTP Championship IMSA GTP Championship IMSA GTP Championship IMSA GTP Championship
Awards
2004	Motorsports Hall of Fame of America

Geoffrey John Brabham^[1] (born 20 March 1952) is an Australian racing driver. Brabham spent the majority of his racing career in theUnited States.

Brabham raced successfully inCART early in his career, finishing eighth in 1982, 1984 and 1987 with nine podiums. In ten appearances in theIndianapolis 500, he had a best result of fourth in1983 and fifth in1981.

Brabham's greatest source of success was in various forms ofsports cars, winning fourIMSA GTP titles (1988–1991) when racing forNissan, and oneCan-Am championship (1981).

Brabham also won the1993 24 Hours of Le Mans driving one of the factoryPeugeot 905 alongside French driversÉric Hélary andChristophe Bouchut. His younger brotherDavid Brabham had won the GT class in the race driving aJaguar XJ220 forTom Walkinshaw Racing, but the team was later disqualified for technical infringements. Geoff Brabham became just the third Australian driver to winLe Mans afterBernard Rubin (1928) andVern Schuppan in1983. Brabham would also go on to win Le Mans in2009, also driving for the factory Peugeot team.

Later in his career, Brabham returned to Australia, where he was runner-up in the 1995 and 1997Australian Super Touring Championship, and won the1997 Bathurst 1000 Super Touring race driving aBMW 320i alongside brother David. The pair initially finished second behindBMW Motorsport Australia teammatesPaul Morris andCraig Baird, but a blunder by the team left Baird in his car at the final pit stop which meant that by the end of the race, theKiwi driver had breached the race regulation which limited any one driver to a maximum of three hours continuous driving. This caused their disqualification and handed the win to the Brabham brothers.

Brabham dabbled in V8 Supercar drives in his native Australia throughout his career. He is still one of the few drivers to win his first race, Sandown 500 in 1993. He started eleven races for one victory.

Brabham took two race victories in theInternational Race of Champions stock car series (1992 and 1993), both at Michigan. He made his onlyNASCARWinston Cup Series start at the first everBrickyard 400 at Indianapolis in 1994, driving forMichael Kranefuss. Brabham crashed in the second half of the race.

Brabham is the son of three-timeFormula One World ChampionJack Brabham. He has two younger brothers;Gary andDavid. Geoff teamed with David to win the1997 Bathurst 1000 in aBMW, becoming the only brothers to have combined to win the race. Although the most successful of the second generation of racing Brabhams, unlike his siblings he did not compete in World ChampionshipFormula One.

Married to Roseina Brabham, a multi-time jet-ski champion, Brabham has retired from competition himself to focus on his sonMatthew's racing career. After a successful karting career, Matthew moved into international open-wheel racing and theRoad to Indy ladder; he is also a three-timeStadium Super Trucks champion.

Brabham was inducted in theMotorsports Hall of Fame of America^[2] in 2004. In 2014, Brabham was assigned as the chief director ofNissan and its developerNismo.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1989	Nissan Motorsport	Chip Robinson Arie Luyendyk	Nissan R89C	C1	250	DNF	DNF
1990	Nissan Performance Technology Inc.	Chip Robinson Derek Daly	Nissan R90CK	C1	251	DNF	DNF
1993	Peugeot Talbot Sport	Éric Hélary Christophe Bouchut	Peugeot 905 Evo 1B	C1	375	1st	1st

Year	Car#	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1974	31	WA Fisher (Holdings) Pty Ltd	Bernie Haehnle	Mazda RX-3	2001 – 3000cc	151	8th	3rd
1975	36	B S Stillwell Ford & Co Pty Ltd	Mike Stillwell	Ford Escort RS2000	B	141	12th	5th
1977	4	John Goss Racing Pty Limited	Jack Brabham	Ford XC Falcon GS500 Hardtop	3001cc – 6000cc	141	18th	9th
1993	35	Peter Jackson Racing	David Parsons	Ford EB Falcon	A	154	6th	6th
1997*	83	BMW Motorsport Australia	David Brabham	BMW 320i	A	161	1st	1st
1998	25	Longhurst Racing	Tony Longhurst	Ford EL Falcon	OC	157	8th	8th
1999	6	Ford Tickford Racing	Neal Bates	Ford AU Falcon		160	10th	10th
2000	54	Rod Nash Racing	Cameron McConville	Holden VT Commodore		105	DNF	DNF
2001	31	Steven Ellery Racing	Steven Ellery	Ford AU Falcon		161	7th	7th

*Super Touring race

Year	Car#	Team	Co-drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class pos.
1993	35	Peter Jackson Racing	David Parsons	Ford EB Falcon	V8	161	1st	1st
1994	23	Diet Coke Racing	Paul Morris	Holden VP Commodore	V8	94	NC	NC
1998	25	Longhurst Racing	Tony Longhurst	Ford EL Falcon	OC	7	DNF	DNF

(key) (Bold – Pole position awarded by qualifying time.Italics – Pole position earned by points standings or practice time. * – Most laps led.)

• Geoff Brabham career summary at DriverDB.com
• Conrod Profile - V8 Supercar stats.
• Geoff Brabham driver statistics at Racing-Reference
• CART/USAC Results

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