British Racing Partnership

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 First entry 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix Races entered 43 Constructors Cooper, BRM, Lotus, BRP Engines Borgward, BRM, Climax Race victories 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 2 Final entry 1964 Mexican Grand Prix

BRP as a Formula One constructor Formula One World Championship career Engines BRM Entrants British Racing Partnership First entry 1963 Belgian Grand Prix Last entry 1964 Mexican Grand Prix Races entered 13 Race victories 0 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0

British Racing Partnership (BRP) was a racing 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, along with other up-and-coming drivers.^[1]

History

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

BRP ran a Cooper-Borgward Formula Two car and occasionally a BRM Formula One car in 1959, the latter being demolished in a spectacular crash at the Avus street circuit.^[1] 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 company from August 1959 and became Yeoman Credit Racing for the 1960 season. BRP was given a sum of £40,000 just to buy their equipment plus £20,000/year to operate the team.^[1] 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 at the end of the year, and for the 1961 and 1962 seasons BRP was renamed UDT Laystall Racing, as part of a new, similar sponsorship deal. UDT was United Dominions Trust, who among various holdings owned Laystall Engineering, the principle supplier of crankshafts to the British automotive and aviation industries.^[1]

Mechanics work on the UDT Laystall team cars prior to the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix

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.^[1]

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.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

As a privateer

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1958	Cooper T45	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D		ARG	MON	NED	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	POR	ITA	MOR
				Tom Bridger											Ret
1959					MON	500	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	POR	ITA	USA
	Cooper T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D	Ivor Bueb	DNQ
		Borgward 1500 RS 1.5 L4							13
				Chris Bristow					10
	BRM P25	BRM P25 2.5 L4		Stirling Moss				DSQ	2
				Hans Herrmann						Ret
1961	Lotus 18 18/21	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D		MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA
				Cliff Allison	8		DNS
				Henry Taylor	DNQ		DNP	10	Ret		11
				Lucien Bianchi				Ret	Ret
				Juan Manuel Bordeu				DNS
				Masten Gregory							Ret	Ret
1962					NED	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	RSA
	Lotus 24 18/21	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8 Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D	Innes Ireland	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	16		Ret	8	5
				Masten Gregory	Ret				7
	Lotus 24	BRM P56 1.5 V8				DNQ	WD	Ret			12	6
1963	Lotus 24	BRM P56 1.5 V8	D		MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA
				Jim Hall	Ret	Ret	8	11	6	5	8	10	8
				Innes Ireland	Ret					Ret
1964	Lotus 24	BRM P56 1.5 V8	D		MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	USA	MEX
				Innes Ireland	DNS
				Trevor Taylor					Ret

As a constructor

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Tyres	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Points	WCC
1963	BRP Mk1	BRM V8	D		MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA	6	6th
				Innes Ireland		Ret	4	7	Ret		4
1964	BRP Mk1 BRP Mk2	BRM V8	D		MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	USA	MEX	5	7th
				Innes Ireland			10	Ret	10		5	5	Ret	12
				Trevor Taylor	Ret		7	Ret			Ret	DNQ	6	Ret

Sources

• Forix article on BRP
• Team Profile at Grand Prix Encyclopedia
• F1 Database entry
• Results from Formula1.com

References

1. Jacobson, Curtis. "Kurt DelBene's 1964 B.R.P. (BRP-BRM) Grand Prix Race Car". www.britishracecar.com. Retrieved 29 April 2013.