Tony Brise Memorial Trophy

The Tony Brise Memorial Trophy was a non-championship Formula One race.

The race was first held in 1977 when a season high of 50 entries had been received for the British Grand Prix, reaching the limit on the number of entries allowed in the rules at the time. Of those 50 entries, only 22 were safe from Pre-Qualifying, and of those who competed in the extra Friday morning session, only 6 would progress into Qualifying proper. The fact that a large number of these entries were British or British based, and that a majority of them would not progress from Pre-Qualifying was not lost on the British Racing Drivers Club, who began searching for a way to give these smaller teams more exposure both to the thousands of spectators present and the people watching at home on television. Into the second full season of broadcasting, more and more viewers were tuning in to watch the races - and the BRDC were aware of this, given the success of the previous two runnings of the BRDC International Trophy non-championship race. Looking to exploit the patriotic nature of the British spectators and the cult interest in the pre-qualifying highlights program on Saturday mornings, the BRDC announced that all teams who failed to pre-qualify for the British Grand Prix along with a select few runners from the ShellSport F5000 series would compete in a non-championship race on Saturday afternoon. The trophy was named in honour of Tony Brise, a British rising star in Formula One who was tragically killed just two years prior in the same plane crash as Graham Hill.

Previous Winners

Year	Winning Driver	Winning Team	Winning Constructor	Circuit	Season
1979	Danny Ongais	Interscope Racing	Interscope-Ford	Silverstone	1979 Non-Championship F1
1978	Keke Rosberg	Warsteiner Arrows Racing Team	Arrows-Ford	Brands Hatch	1978 Non-Championship F1
1977	Robert Kagan	Penthouse British Formula One Racing Team	March-Ford	Silverstone	1977 Non-Championship F1