BRDC International Trophy

The International Trophy is a vision was to start from the British Racing Drivers Club 1949 car race. Sponsored it was from the beginning of the British newspaper the Daily Express. The name of the race goes back to a race meeting, which was held in the 1930s at Brooklands. The races were run at Silverstone, where the race in 1949 was the first race event ever on the airfield circuit. The track was covered only scantily, and Alberto Ascari drove a victory for the Scuderia Ferrari.

With the introduction of the Formula 1 World Championship in 1950, the race was contested by the regulations of this racing formula. In 1950, there was, like the year before, in August. 1951, the event was moved to April and from then on was next to the Race of Champions at Brands Hatch as the most important not for the World Cup scoring formula 1 race before the European race. 1952, the race was also open to Formula 2 cars. The last International Trophy, which was held under the scheme took place in 1978 and ended with the victory of the Finn Keke Rosberg on a Theodore TR1.

From 1979 the trophy was run as a race of the Formula 2 European Championship and at the end of this championship 1984 starting in 1985 as an event of the newly created formula. As of 2005, the GP2 Series was introduced in 3000, the trophy lost the championship status.

The BRDC International Trophy but still extended, since 2005 as a race for historic F1 cars.

• Formula 1 race
• Motorsport race
• Motor Sports Competition ( United Kingdom)