 John Cooper Dies Aged 77 Monday December 25th, 2000 John Cooper, founder of the Formula One team that bore his name during the fifties and sixties, died on Sunday at the age of 77. Cooper, whose team was the first to introduce a rear-engined Formula One car in 1959, succumbed to cancer on Christmas Eve after a long illness. The Cooper team was founded by John and his father Charles after World War II, making its Formula One debut in 1950, achieving the first victory in the 1958 Argentinian Grand Prix with Stirling Moss at the wheel. From 1950 to 1969, Cooper accumulated a total of sixteen Grand Prix wins, two Constructors' Championships - in 1959 and 1960, and two World Drivers' Championships, with Jack Brabham, also in 1959 and 1960.
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