Team BRM
Encyclopedia
Team BRM, formerly known as Bronte Rundle Motorsport, is the leading open-wheel motor racing team in Australia. The team have competed in Australian Formula 3
Australian Formula 3
The Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship is a motor racing championship for FIA Formula Three racing cars and is now the official Australian Drivers' Championship. Growing out of Australian Formula 2 racing into a series for the first time in 1999, it has grown into the premier Australian...

 for over a decade winning several titles, including the Australian Drivers' Championship
Australian Drivers' Championship
The Australian Drivers' Championship is a motor racing championship which has been contested annually since 1957 by drivers of cars complying with Australia's premier open-wheeler racing category as determined by the Confederation of Australian Motor Sport. Since 2005 this category has been Formula...

. The team has expanded into the Australian Formula Ford Championship
Australian Formula Ford Championship
The Australian Formula Ford Championship is a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Formula Ford racing cars. It has been held annually since 1970, originally as a national series, and later as the 'Driver-to-Europe' series...

 in recent years.

Based in Adelaide
Adelaide
Adelaide is the capital city of South Australia and the fifth-largest city in Australia. Adelaide has an estimated population of more than 1.2 million...

, South Australia
South Australia
South Australia is a state of Australia in the southern central part of the country. It covers some of the most arid parts of the continent; with a total land area of , it is the fourth largest of Australia's six states and two territories.South Australia shares borders with all of the mainland...

, the team was created initially to run Bronte Rundle's racing career as he raced in Australian Formula 2 racing in the late 1980s. One of the original supporters of Formula 3 when it arrived in Australia in the late 1990s, the team become one of the foundation teams of the Australian Formula 3 Championship
Australian Formula 3
The Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship is a motor racing championship for FIA Formula Three racing cars and is now the official Australian Drivers' Championship. Growing out of Australian Formula 2 racing into a series for the first time in 1999, it has grown into the premier Australian...

. Gradually becoming a professional modern open wheel racing team, the team have become the most successful team in modern Australian Formula 3 history. Team BRM drivers have won the AF3 title six times, in 2002
2002 Australian Formula 3 Championship
The 2002 Australian Formula 3 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title for drivers of Racing Cars complying with FIA Formula 3 regulations....

 with James Manderson; 2004
2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship
The 2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing championship open to Australian Formula 3 cars. The championship, which was the fourth Australian Formula 3 Championship, was organised and administered by Formula 3 Australia Inc.Western Australian racer Karl...

 with Karl Reindler
Karl Reindler
Karl Reindler is a racing driver from Perth, Western Australia. Reindler will compete in the V8 Supercar series in 2010.Reindler won the 2004 Australian Formula 3 Championship, beating Chris Gilmour by only 3 points....

; 2006
2006 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 2006 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title open to Formula 3 cars. The title was contested over an eight round, 16 race series, with the winner awarded the 2006 CAMS Gold Star. The series was organised and administered by Formula 3 Australia Inc...

 with Ben Clucas
Ben Clucas
Ben Clucas is a British racing driver. He has competed in such series as Formula 3 Euro Series, Toyota Racing Series and the British Formula Three Championship. Clucas won the 2006 Australian Drivers' Championship for Team BRM and the GT Light class of the Spanish GT Championship in 2009 with...

, 2008
2008 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 2008 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title which was contested concurrently with the 2008 Kumho Tyres Australian Formula 3 Championship. The championship winner was awarded the 2008 CAMS Gold Star...

 with James Winslow
James Winslow
James Winslow is a British racing driver. He is the winner of four motorsport championships and currently competes in the Firestone Indy Lights series and the Australian Drivers' Championship.-2004-2008:...

, 2009
2009 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 2009 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title with the championship winner receiving the 2009 CAMS Gold Star award. The 2009 championship was the 53rd Australian Drivers' Championship and the fifth to be contested with open wheel racing cars constructed...

 with Joey Foster
Joey Foster
Joseph Lyle Foster is a British racing driver. He has competed in such series as Le Mans Series, Australian Formula Ford Championship and the German Formula Three Championship. He won the 2009 Australian Drivers' Championship for Team BRM. Foster also won the Formula Ford Festival in...

 and 2010
2010 Australian Drivers' Championship
The 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship was a CAMS sanctioned national motor racing title with the championship winner receiving the 2010 CAMS Gold Star award. The 2010 championship was the 54th Australian Drivers' Championship and the sixth to be contested with open wheel racing cars constructed...

 with Ben Barker.

The team runs a fleet of Dallara
Dallara
Dallara Automobili is an Italian chassis manufacturer for various motor racing series, being most notable for its near-monopoly in Formula 3 since 1993...

 Formula 3 cars and Mygale
Mygale
Mygale is a French racing car constructor and contractor that specialises in the production of single seater chassis for use in formula racing. The company was established in 1989 by Bertrand Decoster and its factory is based in Magny Cours....

 Formula Fords as well as offering itself as a tuning and maintenance operation for other vehicles, including historic Formula One
Formula One
Formula One, also known as Formula 1 or F1 and referred to officially as the FIA Formula One World Championship, is the highest class of single seater auto racing sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile . The "formula" designation in the name refers to a set of rules with which...

 cars. The teams drivers in 2010 were Ben Barker, Mitch Evans
Mitch Evans
Mitchell Evans , is a motor racing driver from New Zealand who won the 2010 and 2011 Toyota Racing Series in New Zealand and was runner up in the 2010 Australian Drivers' Championship despite missing three races...

 and Zhang Shan Qi in Formula 3 and Tom Goess, Martin Short and Jon Mills in Formula Ford.

In 2011, the team are running Ben Barker in Carrera Cup as well as drivers in Formula Ford and Formula 3.
The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.  The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.
 
x
OK