Brabham

It's just an option to attend the Grand Prix.

It has benefits, seats tied to a membership, and the Brabham Grandstand has been sold through a premier tier.

That's the bit that has understandably annoyed people because they're like, I want access to that, and to access that, I have to buy this membership package.

There's so many other grandstands.

We are so lucky to have.

How? has this museum been able to amass not just Brock, but so much racing history, the motorbikes, the Brabham stuff, the Chas's busted up car from not all that long ago.

How does it work that you are able to get such a collection of Australian history?

We have an amazing network of supporters.

He was technically excellent as a driver.

I think he's a technically stronger driver than Alonso is, but – I think if you adjust the frame of reference, they're at similar levels because you can't be in modern F1 a John Surtees, Jack Brabham type in the 60s because it's not that hands-on.

I imagine Alonso probably has got the capability to have been that if the environment was there for it to be.

But he's not there...

Well, this is the perfect moment to hit fast forward as we like to do at the end of the podcast.

We have to talk about the statistical argument because, for reasons you've just outlined, Surtees kind of fades into the background to an extent.

He's almost a footnote to, I would say, Jim Clark, to Jack Brabham, to Graham Hill, to Jackie Stewart, who've all got better on paper numbers than him.

And similarly, Fernando Alonso has existed in Formula One for a long time, but he's also existed in parallel with...

So they figured, well, we need to slow this down.

About this time, a guy named Bernie Ecclestone got involved and he began trying to figure out a way to afford to run his racing team, which was called Brabham.

And he began to organize the sport around commercial success.

And he started selling sponsorship and organizing the organization of Formula One into a a group so that they would have leverage to be able to go to the track owners and promoters to get a better deal financially and that that changed things get brought in more money which led to more development and you eventually get to the place where we we changed things back turbocharging was was there you got into the the 70s sort of you ended up with the fuel embargo so formula one then over the next decade or two began to be fuel conscious so you got into Instead of being able to run as much fuel as you wanted to, they had pit fires that burned people.

But for $750, fans can become a grandstand member, which will give them the priority renewal year on year, as well as a member welcome backpack and early access to the precinct on the race weekend.

The $1,275 premium tier gives the above plus access to buy tickets to the premium-only Brabham stand in the inside of the first corner.

Neither membership package includes actual admission tickets, so you have to be members before you can get those tickets, which started around $600, except for the premium-only Brabham stand.

In 2026, the cheapest four-day seat in the Brabham stand costs $1,045.

In 2027, the tickets themselves will be $910, but after the $1,275 membership tier, it will now cost $2,185 AVL.

The cost of a four-day general admission ticket has increased another $40 to $425.

And it hasn't really been held very many times.

When we did things like Monza and we're looking at things like, I don't know, Fiat and Brabham and all these kind of like historical names of race there.

This has been held eight times.

It was the European Grand Prix in 2016 before it became the Azerbaijan GP and Rosberg won it.

Welcome to the Race F1 Tech Show.

I'm Ed Straw, and with me is legend of F1, Gary Anderson, former technical director for multiple teams, worked for McLaren, Brabham, Jordan, Jaguar, Stewart, and many, many more.

How's things, Gary? I can imagine you've been enjoying watching Madrid while, uh, putting some, uh, putting some hours in on, uh, on some patio building.

So, uh, a, a good few weeks for you.