British Racing Partnership

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BRP Full name British Racing Partnership Base Tring, Hertfordshire, UK Founder/s Alfred Moss Ken Gregory Noted staff Tony Robinson Noted drivers Stirling Moss Masten Gregory Innes Ireland Trevor Taylor Jim Hall Formula One World Championship career Constructors Cooper, BRM, Lotus, BRP Engines Borgward, BRM, Climax Debut 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix Races competed 43 Race victories 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 2 Final race 1964 Mexican Grand Prix

BRP as a Formula One constructor Formula One World Championship career Engines BRM Entrants British Racing Partnership Debut 1963 Belgian Grand Prix Final race 1964 Mexican Grand Prix Races competed 13 Race victories 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0

British Racing Partnership (BRP) was a Formula One team, and latterly constructor, from the United Kingdom. It was established by Alfred Moss and Ken Gregory — Stirling Moss's father and former manager respectively — in 1957 to run cars for Stirling, when not under contract with other firms.

BRP ran a Cooper-Borgward F2 car and occasionally a BRM F1 car in 1959, the latter being demolished in a spectacular crash at the Avus street circuit. BRP was the first Formula One team to sell the entire identity of the team in return for sponsorship income, when they became Yeoman Credit Racing for the 1960 season. The Yeoman Credit deal was passed to Reg Parnell Racing at the end of the year, and for the 1961 and 1962 seasons BRP was renamed the UDT Laystall Racing, as part of a new, similar sponsorship deal.

The BRP BRM P25 which Stirling Moss drove to second place in the 1959 British Grand Prix, BRP's best result.

For 1963, the team reverted to its original name and became a true constructor; they had been running Lotus 24s and Cooper T51s for the previous few seasons, and had tried to acquire the more modern, monocoque Lotus 25 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 engine run in the Lotus 25. This car is commonly referred to as the BRP-BRM and was raced by Innes Ireland and Trevor Taylor.

As a constructor, BRP took part in 13 Grand Prix rounds, scoring a total of 11 championship points. After 1964 the team was forced to withdraw from F1; 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. BRPs were built for the Indianapolis 500 but enjoyed little success.

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