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Ron Tauranac - The man who put the 'T' in Brabham

Legendary motorsport designer Ron Tauranac, whose Brabham cars won two world titles in F1, has passed away at 95. The Australian engineer, whose surname initial was part of Brabham cars' familiar  'BT' (Brabham-Tauranac) appellation of Brabham's cars enjoyed a massively successful partnership with country man Jack Brabham. The pair won the F1 world championship in 1966 thanks to the Repco-powered Brabham BT20, while Denny Hulme repeated the feat a year later in 1967 with the championship winning BT24. But Tauranac was also the prolific creator behind Ralt and its successful lineage of F3, F2 and Formula Atlantic cars that abounded on starting grids all over the world in the 70s and 80s....
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