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British Racing Partnership (BRP) was a racing team, and latterly constructor, from the United Kingdom. It was established by Alfred Moss and
BRP ran a
Forix article on BRPF1 Database entryResults from Formula1.com
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– Stirling Moss'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
BRP ran a Cooper
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- Borgward Formula Two
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car and occasionally a BRM 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
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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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, 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
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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
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History
Pre WW1
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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 incl ...
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
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's stepfather George Bryant to built two cars for the 1965 Indianapolis 500
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The five-year-old "British Invasion" finally broke through as Jim Clark and Colin Chapman triumphed in dominatin ...
, but enjoyed little success.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
As a privateer
( key)As a constructor
( key)Non-championship F1 results
Sources
Forix article on BRP
References