Ronald Sidney Tauranac (13 January 1925-17 July 2020), known as Ron Tauranac, was a motorsport car designer and the co-founder of Brabham.
In 1946, Ron Tauranac and his brother Austin built their first motorsport cars, calling them Ralts. Ron Tauranac raced them in various competitions in Australia until 1959, while working as an engineer for the Quality Castings company.
In 1960, Ron Tauranac moved to the United Kingdom to work in Jack Brabham's garage, fitting Climax engines into Triumph Heralds. At the end of that year, Jack Brabham and Ron Tauranac decided to found Brabham to produce single-seaters for Formula Junior and, starting in 1962, also for Formula One, with an attached team, and for various other preparatory formulas. Ron Tauranac was the designer of all of them.
At the end of 1970, Jack Brabham decided to retire from Formula One and sold his stake in Brabham to Ron Tauranac who, in addition to being a designer, became the sole owner until mid-1971, when Bernie Ecclestone acquired the whole team and took over management, while Ron Tauranac returned to focus exclusively on the technical and design aspects. At the beginning of 1972, before the start of the championship and with the cars already built, Ron Tauranac left Brabham. Later that year, he worked as a designer for Politoys, which was building a Formula One car for Frank Williams, and in 1973 he worked with Trojan on the development of a Formula One single-seater based on their Formula 5000 car.
In 1974, he founded Ralt, taking the name from the cars he built in Australia with his brother, specializing in the production of single-seaters for Formula Three, Formula Atlantic, and Formula Two, which achieved numerous victories.
Ron Tauranac returned to Formula One with Theodore, designing the team's cars for 1978.
In October 1988, Ron Tauranac sold Ralt to March.
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