British Racing Partnership

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British Racing Partnership (BRP) was a Formula One constructor from the United Kingdom, established by Alfred Moss, Stirling Moss's father, in the late 1950s to run cars for Stirling, when not under contract with other firms.

BRP ran a Cooper-Borgward F2 car and BRM F1 car in 1959, the latter being demolished in a spectacular crash at the Avus street circuit. During the 1961-62 seasons, the team was renamed the UDT Laystall team, in deference to their sponsors at the time.

For 1963, the team reverted to its original name and became a true constructor; they had been running Lotus 24s and tried to acquire the more modern, monocoque Lotus 25 from Lotus 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 succes.

[edit] Complete Formula One results

(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)

Yr	Main drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
1963	I.Ireland	MON	BEL	DUT	FRA	GBR	DEU	ITA	USA	MEX	SAF
1964	I.Ireland, T.Taylor	MON	DUT	BEL	FRA	GBR	DEU	AUT	ITA	USA	MEX