__NOTOC__ Geoff Brabham (born 20 March 1952) is an Australian racing driver. Brabham spent the majority of his racing career in the

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Racing career

CART

He raced successfully in CART early in his career, finishing 8th in 1982, 1984 and 1987 with nine podiums. In ten appearances in the

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, he had a best result of fourth in 1983 and fifth in 1981.

Sports car racing

His greatest source of success was in various forms of

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, winning four

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titles (1988–1991) when racing for

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, and one Can-Am championship (1981). Brabham also won the

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driving one of the factory

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alongside French drivers

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and

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. His younger brother

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had won the GT class in the race driving a

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for

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, but the team was later disqualified for technical infringements. Geoff Brabham became just the third Australian driver to win

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after

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( 1928) and

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in 1983. David Brabham would also go on to win Le Mans in 2009, also driving for the factory Peugeot team.

Touring car racing

Later in his career, Brabham returned to Australia, where he was runner-up in the 1995 and 1997

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, and won the

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Super Touring race driving a BMW 320i alongside brother David. The pair initially finished second behind BMW Motorsport Australia teammates Paul Morris and

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, 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, the

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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. Nissan NPT-90

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.

Stock car racing

Brabham took two race victories in the

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stock car series (1992 and 1993), both at Michigan. He made his only

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start at the first ever

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at Indianapolis in 1994, driving for Michael Kranefuss. Brabham crashed in the second half of the race.

Personal life

He is the son of three-time

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World Champion

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. He has two younger brothers; Gary and

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. Geoff teamed with David to win the

in a BMW, 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 Championship

. Married to Roseina Brabham, a multi-time jet-ski champion, Brabham has retired from competition himself to focus on his son

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's racing career. After a successful karting career, Matthew moved into international open-wheel racing and the

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ladder; he is also a two-time

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champion.

Awards

He was inducted in the

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Geoff Brabham
at the

in 2004. In 2014, Brabham was assigned as the chief director of

and its developer

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Racing career

American Open-Wheel racing results

Complete USAC Mini-Indy Series results

Complete USAC Championship Car results

CART

(

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) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Indianapolis 500

Touring/Sports Cars

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

V8 Supercar results

Complete Bathurst 1000 results

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race

Sandown 500 results

References

Driver Database stats

Conrod Profile - V8 Supercar stats

Racing Reference - US Stats

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