Peter Briggs
Team Manager
The 2007-08 season will be the first for Team Manager Peter Briggs with A1
TEAM USA. The Briton has a long record of contributing to the success of
distinguished race teams.
Briggs has worked in Formula 1, FIA Formula 3000, British and European
Touring Cars, British and German Formula 3 and disbanded European Formula 2 in a
career that began in the late 1960s. He was an original member of March
Engineering when it was formed in 1969.
In A1GP, Briggs has managed Team Singapore in 2006 and Team Portugal in 2007.
Trained as a mechanic, Briggs' first job was working in a Ford dealership. He
joined Winkelmann Racing in European F2 in 1967.and the team had 10 wins with
Jochen Rindt in two seasons.
Briggs joined March, a company establsihed to design, build and sell racing
cars and, in 1971, was selected to be Team Manager/Engineer for its factory
Formula 2 effort. Ronnie Peterson won the European F1 championship with five wins
out of 11 races for March's first championship.
John Surtees hired Briggs to run his newly fomred Matchbox Surtees F2 team in
1972 and Mike Hailwood, with five wins in 14 races, won the championship.
Briggs returned to March in 1973 to manage its F1 team. In 1976, Briggs
managed Surteees' F1 team until it ceased operating in 1979.
Briggs returned to the automobile business and in 1983 acquired a Honda
dealership which flourished for the next 17 years.
In 1989, Briggs and two partners established Edenbridge Racing and, with
Briggs managing the team, it won championships with Honda CRXs in 1989 and 1990.
The team moved into British Formula 3 and won the 1995 championship with Oliver
Gavin and later had success in F1A F3000.
Briggs also has been involved in the running of the famous Macau Grand Prix,
a Formula 3 race of champions from around the world. While at Macau, Briggs
met representatives of BMW which led to BMW of Great Britain backing a 2-car
team for Edenbridge in the 2001 European Touring Car Championship. Tom Ferrier
finished second in the under 2.5-liter series.
Edenbridge was second in the British TCC with Norman Simon in 2002 and third
with Michael Brentwood in 2003. The team competed with Justin Keen in a BMW in
the BTCC in 2004 for a partial season.
Briggs went back to his open-wheel roots with Edenbridge in 2005, running a
Dallara in British F3, selected German F3 and at Macau for Chinese driver Lou
Meng Cheong.
Briggs managed West Surrey Racing's team in British Touring Car in 2006 in
addition to working in A1GP.
Briggs has also judged the Autosport Young Drivers Award, is an associate
member of the British Racing Drivers Club and is Chairman of the judges for the
young driver MSA Race Elite program.
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