The Smit brothers remind me of a little known Aussie called Sir Jack Brabham who was a Royal Australian Air Force flight mechanic and ran a small engineering workshop.
Having won the Formula One world championship in 1959 and 1960, in the 1966 Formula One season Brabham became the first – and still, the only – man to win the Formula One world championship driving a car he built entirely himself.
Here is to little known heros; I salute you all
