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| Full name | British Racing Partnership |
|---|---|
| Base | Tring,Hertfordshire, UK |
| Founder(s) | Alfred Moss Ken Gregory |
| Noted staff | Tony Robinson |
| Noted drivers | |
| 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 |

| 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 byAlfred Moss andKen 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]

BRP ran aCooper-BorgwardFormula Two car and occasionally aBRMFormula One car in 1959, the latter being demolished in a spectacular crash at theAvus 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 becameYeoman Credit Racing for the1960 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 two of the team's drivers were killed while racing their cars,[2] 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 toReg Parnell Racing at the end of the year, and for the1961 and1962 seasons BRP was renamedUDT Laystall Racing, as part of a new, similar sponsorship deal. UDT wasUnited Dominions Trust, who among various holdings owned Laystall Engineering, the principal supplier of crankshafts to the British automotive and aviation industries.[1]

For1963, the team reverted to its original name and became a true constructor; they had been runningLotus24s andCooper T51s for the previous few seasons, and had tried to acquire the more modern,monocoqueLotus 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 typicalCoventry Climax engine run in the Lotus 25. This car is commonly referred to as the BRP-BRM and was raced byInnes Ireland andTrevor Taylor.[1]
As a constructor, BRP took part in 13 Grand Prix rounds, scoring a total of 11 championship points. After1964 the team was forced to withdraw from F1 when BRP were denied membership of theFormula 1 Constructors Association which effectively deprived them of start money, then a significant factor in a team's income. Instead, BRP was hired byMasten Gregory's stepfather George Bryant to build two cars for the1965 Indianapolis 500, but enjoyed little success.
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| Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine(s) | Tyres | Drivers | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | Points | WCC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | British Racing Partnership | BRP Mk1 | BRMV8 | D | MON | BEL | NED | FRA | GBR | GER | ITA | USA | MEX | RSA | 6 | 6th | |
| Ret | 4 | 7 | Ret | 4 | |||||||||||||
| 1964 | British Racing Partnership | BRP Mk1 BRP Mk2 | BRMV8 | D | MON | NED | BEL | FRA | GBR | GER | AUT | ITA | USA | MEX | 5 | 7th | |
| 10 | Ret | 10 | 5 | 5 | Ret | 12 | |||||||||||
| Ret | 7 | Ret | Ret | DNQ | 6 | Ret |