* 1963 – Mike Gascoyne, British engineer, designer of Formula One cars

** British American Racing, a Formula One constructor

Motor Racing Developments Ltd., commonly known as Brabham (), was a British racing car manufacturer and Formula One racing team.

British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.

** Lotus F1 Team, a British Formula One team that started competing in 2012 season

** Team Lotus, a British Formula One racing team that competed between 1954 and 1994

In 2009, a poll of 217 Formula One drivers conducted by the British magazine Autosport named Schumacher as " the second-greatest Formula One driver who ever lived ", just behind Ayrton Senna, and the most complete driver, just ahead of Senna.

McLaren Racing Limited, trading as Vodafone McLaren Mercedes, is a British Formula One team based in Woking, Surrey, England, United Kingdom.

Bruce was a works driver for the British Formula One team Cooper with whom he had won three Grands Prix and come second in the 1960 world championship.

For Bruce decided to use a British Racing Motors ( BRM ) V12 engine, but due to delays with the engine, was forced initially to use a modified Formula Two car called the M4B powered by a 2. 1 litre BRM V8, later building a similar but slightly larger car called the M5A for the V12.

In the M23 was gradually replaced with the M26, the M23's final works outing being Gilles Villeneuve's Formula One debut with the team in a one-off appearance at the British Grand Prix.

* 1956 – Jonathan Palmer, British Formula One racer

* 1973 – Christian Horner, British Formula One team owner

* Phoenix Finance, British banking company that attempted to enter Formula One racing

The modern British Formula One Stock Car is a highly sophisticated purpose built race car with race-tuned V-8 engines developing 650 bhp, quick change axles and gearboxes and biased and staggered chassis and braking set up for constant left turning.

* March 5 – Tom Pryce, British Formula race car driver ( b. 1949 )

* August 15 – George Ryton, British Formula One engineer

He became the first Formula One driver to achieve 200 Grand Prix starts when he appeared at the 1990 British Grand Prix, and the first to achieve 250 starts at the 1993 German Grand Prix.

There was even enough interest in Group C to sustain a C2 championship for a few years ; at ' club ' level Modified Sports Car (" ModSports ") and Production Sports Car (" ProdSports ") races remained a feature of most British race meetings into the 1980s, evolving into a " Special GT " series that was essentially Formula Libre for sports or saloon cars.

The " New Flying Finn " won three Scandinavian championships, then in 1988 the Opel Lotus Euroseries championship before winning the 1990 British Formula Three championship.

Despite promotion involving former Formula One racing driver Stirling Moss, the reaction upon its release was that the C5 was impractical in the British climate meaning it was only comfortably usable in southern England in the spring and summer, and possibly dangerous on busy roads.

Villeneuve moved to the newly formed British American Racing team in 1999 and stayed there for the next four seasons but, following poor results he was replaced by former British Formula Three Champion Takuma Sato.

* Derek Warwick, British Formula One driver

The I-Kiribati or Gilbertese people settled what would become known as the Gilbert Islands ( named for British captain Thomas Gilbert by von Krusenstern in 1820 ) some time in between 3000 BC and 1300 AD.

The people who built Maeshowe were users of grooved ware, a distinctive type of pottery that spread throughout the British Isles from about 3000 BC.

While the British fleet lay at Lagos Bay, in Portugal, the Spanish prisoners received from the four prizes, numbering about 3000, were landed.

Over 500 British and European oil paintings, watercolours and miniatures and 3000 drawings and prints were bequeathed in 1868-9 by the clergymen Chauncey Hare Townshend and Alexander Dyce.

* T. m. kinnisii, named for John Kinnis, surgeon to the British military forces in what was then Ceylon, breeds in the hills of Sri Lanka above 900 metres ( 3000 ft ).

In 1989 he entered the British Formula 3000 series, finishing third overall.

* Located in Vancouver, Canada, the University of British Columbia's co-operative education program includes over 3000 students from the faculties of Arts, Commerce, Engineering, Forestry, Kinesiology, and Science.

Best known in the UK as one of the definitive Judge Dredd artists for British comics anthology 2000 AD, he spearheaded the ' British Invasion ' of the American comics industry, and in 1982 produced the artwork on Camelot 3000 ( with author Mike W. Barr ), which was DC's first 12-issue comicbook maxiseries created for the direct market.

With the outbreak of First World War the factory turned to the manufacture of military vehicles for the British Army and by 1919 over 3000 had been made.

Leichhardt is named after the Prussian explorer Ludwig Leichhardt, who in the 1840s was feted for his 4, 800 km ( c. 3000 mi ) expedition in search of an overland route from southern Queensland to Port Essington, a British settlement on the far northern coast of Australia ( some 300 km to the north of the modern city of Darwin ).

The Austin-Healey 3000 is a British sports car built from 1959 to 1967, and is the best known of the " big " Healey models.

A 3000 Mark II BT7 with hardtop and overdrive tested by the British magazine The Motor in 1961 had a top speed of and could accelerate from 0 – in 10. 9 seconds.

He has been voted as the greatest British songwriter of all time in a 2009 OnePoll, who surveyed 3000 people John Lennon was second and Paul McCartney of The Beatles was third.

He is a graduate of both the University of British Columbia and Columbia University and has a database of more than 3000 sighting and track reports, leading some to affectionately refer to him as " Mr. Sasquatch ", and in some circles as one of the " Four Horsemen of Sasquatchery ".

The Gumball 3000 is an annual British international road rally which takes place on public roads, with a different route around the world each year.

For the Britishers the Mahsud tribe was the most difficult to control, and in 1860 when the Mahsuds attacked the British with a 3000 strong Lashkar the British were forced to penetrate into the territory of Tank to control them.

Percy Hodge ( 26 December 1890 – 27 December 1967 ) was a British athlete, winner of the 3000 m steeplechase at the 1920 Summer Olympics, held in Antwerp.

In 1808, a sum of 3000 Star Pagoda ( known as Vattipanam ) was handed over to Col. Macaulay, the British Resident in Travancore by Mar Thoma VII with the condition that the interest be paid to the Metropolitan of the Syrian Church of Malabar.

And so, in August 1758, the British under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel John Bradstreet left Fort Oswego with a force of a little over 3000 men and attacked Fort Frontenac.

In 1758 he participated in the attack on Fort Carillon, where he led the advance guard following the death of General George Howe, and he commanded the British expedition of 3000 that captured Fort Frontenac, which took control of Lake Ontario from the French on 26 August 1758.

Bernard stood in again at the following British Grand Prix, before returning to his Formula 3000 commitments with DAMS.

In 1987 he got his chance to race in Formula 3000 in a GA Motorsport Lola, in which he won in only his second Formula 3000 race, becoming the first British driver to win a race in the formula.