# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/russell-brookes
# Generated: 2026-08-14T02:30:37.980Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/russell-brookes"
name: "Russell Brookes"
slug: "russell-brookes"
description: "Russell Brookes was a British rally driver. He won the British Rally Championship with a Ford Escort RS1800 in 1977 and with an Opel Manta 400 in 1985. In 1978, he won the Rally New Zealand, a round of the FIA Cup for Drivers, the predecessor to the World Championship for Drivers. In the World Rally Championship, he finished on the podium of his home event, the RAC Rally, three times in a row from 1977 to 1979."
tagline: "British rally driver (1945-2019)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/RussellBrookesAutosportInternational2009.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
birthDate: "1945-08-16"
deathDate: "2019-10-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.95
  momentum:             1.273408239700375
  historical:           8.077502666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84_%D8%A8%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83%D8%B3"
    title: "راسل بروكس"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%80%D1%83%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Брукс, Рассел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russell_Brookes"
    title: "Russell Brookes"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q247150"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump