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Former racer Gary Brabham found guilty of charges in Australia


Former racer and the son of three-time Formula 1 world champion Sir Jack Brabham, Gary Brabham has been found guilty of raping a six-year-old girl in Australia.

Brabham, who won the 1989 British Formula 3000 championship before failing to qualify for a pair of F1 races in 1990 with Life, was convicted in a court in Brisbane on Friday.

The 54-year-old was found guilty on one count of rape and one count of indecent treatment of a girl under six, for offences that occurred between 2003 and '07.

He was found not guilty of five other charges of indecent treatment, following proceedings that started when the girl told her mother, who then reported it to police, in October 2013.

The 1988 British Formula 3 runner-up, Brabham won the Sebring 12 Hours in 1991 and made a pair of Indycar starts on the Gold Coast before retiring in '95.

He was remanded in custody and is set to be sentenced next month.

Wowsers that's horrible. So um...should he get...Life?

I never knew there was another Brabham besides Jack and David.

For the rest. Well, euhm.....some people...

GARY Brabham, son of motor racing legend Sir Jack Brabham, is a serial child molester who, for years, hid his crimes behind a wall of lies.

Only his ashamed family knew the truth.

In 2009 the former Gold Coast-based international racing driver pleaded guilty to charges of indecent dealing of a child under 12 years.

Brabham managed to have his name suppressed as he served out his time in high security at Wacol jail.

On his release, in an attempt to rebuild his motor racing career, Brabham claimed to have been overseas working for large motoring companies.

“I enjoyed sports cars,” he told Racer Views.com in an interview.
“I think the thing I enjoyed most of all was testing, and I had a good reputation for it. I got to test different cars. Even Nissan used to fly me to America just to test.”

He talked up running “a few high-performance days with dad” and vowed to develop workplace health and safety initiatives to reduce company car ­accidents.


Gary Brabham with brother Geoff in the pits after practice for the Bathurst 1000.
But this week the sham ended when the 54-year-old was again convicted of one count of rape and six of indecent treatment of a child under 12 years. He was found not guilty of five other counts of indecent treatment.

His victims are sisters and the devastation caused by Brabham was described by family friends as “extensive”.

“It’s been nearly a nine-year ordeal for us,” said the mother. This has been a really difficult time for our family.

“It is nearly over now and the truth has come out. We’ve got sentencing in three weeks.
“It’s probably a relief the truth has come out but I just don’t know how I feel. It hasn’t really sunk in.”

Family and friends were stunned by the lack of remorse from the grey-haired, balding, former sports star as he left the Brisbane District Court for a smoke between breaks in his trial during the week.

“There is no remorse. He looks and smiles and shakes his head,” a Brabham relative said.

But they also watched as his brother Geoff bowed his head as the prosecution summed up the shocking details of the case. They saw Geoff Brabham’s wife Roseina in tears.

Outside the court, Geoff Brabham, on approaching the victim’s family was apologetic, telling them, “I’m only here because he’s my brother”. Before leaving, he placed his hand on the shoulder of a woman and told her, “Good luck”.

The jury had been shown a 2012 video of his second victim, now aged 19, telling a police officer that Brabham had touched inside her vagina as she sat on his lap wearing shorts, as he drove a car.

After one of the five separate incidents between 2003 and 2007, when the girl was aged between six and 10, she recalled sobbing after Brabham rubbed his hand on her vagina as she sat on a toy chest.

The girl’s mother took her daughter to police after the girl told her of the abuse in October, 2013. Only after the verdicts, the courtroom heard he had a “criminal history”.

His sentencing will occur in three weeks.

A friend of the family told the Gold Coast Bulletin: “He was what psychologists would call a groomer. He would set the scene up. He would groom the target into a false sense of safety.”

Brabham, with his dark-haired boyish looks, was the Aussie poster boy for the Gold Coast Indycar races in 1993-4 as our first local competitor in the American series.

He raced in Formula One and won the 1989 British Formula 3000 Championship.

Brabham did not give evidence at his trial.

Relatives and friends see him facing his biggest challenge – to acknowledge the pain of his victims.