British Racing Partnership (BRP) was a racing team, and latterly constructor, from the United Kingdom. It was established by
Alfred Moss
Alfred Ethelbert Moss (30 May 1896 – 23 April 1972) was an English dentist and racing driver.
Born in Kensington, London, Moss was the son of Sarah Jane and Abraham Moses Moss. His father was Jewish, while his mother was a Christian.
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and
Ken Gregory
Ken Gregory (1960) is a Canadian media artist who works with DIY interface design, hardware hacking, audio, video, and computer programming. He is based in Winnipeg, Manitoba.
Career
Gregory's work has been exhibited internationally in media art ...
–
Stirling Moss
Sir Stirling Craufurd Moss (17 September 1929 – 12 April 2020) was a British Formula One racing driver. An inductee into the International Motorsports Hall of Fame, he won 212 of the 529 races he entered across several categories of comp ...
's father and former manager, respectively – in 1957 to run cars for Stirling, when not under contract with other firms, along with other up-and-coming drivers.
History
![BRM P25](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a5/BRM_P25.jpg)
BRP ran a
Cooper
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Borgward Formula Two
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car and occasionally a
BRM
British Racing Motors (BRM) was a British Formula One motor racing team. Founded in 1945 and based in the market town of Bourne in Lincolnshire, it participated from 1951 to 1977, competing in 197 grands prix and winning seventeen. BRM wo ...
Formula One
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car in 1959, the latter being demolished in a spectacular crash at the
Avus
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street circuit.
BRP was the first Formula One team to sell the entire identity of the team in return for sponsorship income; they were sponsored by the Yeoman Credit Ltd.
hire-purchase
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company from August 1959 and became Yeoman Credit Racing for the season. BRP was given a sum of £40,000 just to buy their equipment plus £20,000/year to operate the team.
The team ran Coopers in both Formula One and Formula Two during 1960, with mixed success. During this time four of the team's drivers were killed while racing their cars, and the Yeoman Credit management became concerned that the team was not generating solely positive publicity for their company. The Yeoman Credit deal was passed to
Reg Parnell Racing
Reg Parnell Racing was a privateer Formula One team during the 1950s and 1960s. The team was founded by ex-Formula One driver Reg Parnell after he retired from racing. It raced as Yeoman Credit Racing in 1961 and as the Bowmaker Racing Team in ...
at the end of the year, and for the and seasons BRP was renamed UDT Laystall Racing, as part of a new, similar sponsorship deal. UDT was
United Dominions Trust
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The business should not to be confused wit ...
, who among various holdings owned Laystall Engineering, the principal supplier of crankshafts to the British automotive and aviation industries.
For , the team reverted to its original name and became a true constructor; they had been running
Lotus 24s and
Cooper T51
The Cooper T51 was a Formula One and Formula Two racing car designed by Owen Maddock and built by the Cooper Car Company for the 1959 Formula One season. The T51 earned a significant place in motor racing history when Jack Brabham drove the car ...
s for the previous few seasons, and had tried to acquire the more modern,
monocoque
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Lotus 25
The Lotus 25 was a racing car designed by Colin Chapman for the 1962 Formula One season. It was a revolutionary design, the first fully stressed monocoque chassis to appear in Formula One. In the hands of Jim Clark it took 14 World Championship ...
without success. This caused chief designer, Tony Robinson, to design his own monocoque car, patterned very closely after the Lotus 25, but with a thicker skin and running a BRM V8 rather than the typical
Coventry Climax
Coventry Climax was a British forklift truck, fire pump, racing, and other specialty engine manufacturer.
History
Pre WW1
The company was started in 1903 as Lee Stroyer, but two years later, following the departure of Stroyer, it was relocat ...
engine run in the Lotus 25. This car is commonly referred to as the BRP-BRM and was raced by
Innes Ireland
Lieutenant Robert McGregor Innes Ireland (12 June 1930 – 22 October 1993), was a British military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver, with 1 Championship and 8 non-Championship Formula 1 race victories, and several sports car wins inclu ...
and
Trevor Taylor.
As a constructor, BRP took part in 13 Grand Prix rounds, scoring a total of 11 championship points. After the team was forced to withdraw from F1 when BRP were denied membership of the
Formula 1 Constructors Association which effectively deprived them of start money, then a significant factor in a team's income. Instead, BRP was hired by
Masten Gregory
Masten Gregory (February 29, 1932 − November 8, 1985) was an American racing driver. He raced in Formula One between and , participating in 43 World Championship races, and numerous non-Championship races.
He was also a successful sports car r ...
's stepfather George Bryant to built two cars for the
1965 Indianapolis 500, but enjoyed little success.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
As a privateer
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key
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)
As a constructor
(
key
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)
Non-championship F1 results
Sources
Forix article on BRPF1 Database entryResults from Formula1.com
References
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