| Team Principal | John Briggs |
|---|---|
| Debut | 1997 |
| Final Season | 2003 |
Briggs Motor Sport was an Australian motor racing team which has represented Queensland based businessman John Briggs in motor racing. The team has competed in Sports Sedans, Formula Holden and most publicly as a touring car team competing in the V8 Supercar Championship Series. The team last competed in historic motor racing and the Australian GT Championship but was folded at the end of the 2009 season.
Briggs Motor Sport made its debut in the 1997 in an Ford EF Falcon for team owner John Briggs, in 1998 it campaigned a EL Falcon, a year later it expanded to a two car team with John Briggs driving an AU Falcon and executive of the team's leading sponsor, Supercheap Auto, Bob Thorn in the older EL Falcon from the year before. Part way through the 1999 season, Briggs bolstered his operation after purchasing the Perth based Precision Auto Engineering Motorsport team, absorbing the Caterpillar backed Ford of John Bowe into the team. The team ran a single car for the next few seasons, the team sacking Bowe after Bathurst in 2001, replacing him with emerging New Zealand driver Simon Wills.
In 2002 the team expanded to three cars with Betta Electrical Fords for veteran Tony Longhurst and Brazilian open wheel driver Max Wilson. Both drivers were replaced in 2003 with Paul Radisich and Dean Canto for the 2003 season, but by August Briggs had sold the V8 Supercar operation to British outfit Triple Eight Race Engineering, to establiish an Australian arm of the race team.
Briggs stepped back from professional racing at this point and spent several years away from the sport before investing in some historic racing cars, highlighted by the return of the 1985 VesKanda-Chevrolet sports car to race tracks in 2007. Since then Briggs has expanded his operation into the Australian GT Championship, driving and importing Moslers.
After a diagnosis of prostate cancer, Briggs recently announced his retirement from competitive motorsports.[1]