Team Brask is a racing team founded by Danish businessman and racing driver Lars-Christian Brask in 1998. The team was formed to compete at every level, but quickly began promoting talented young single-seater drivers. Team Brask's managing director was Alf Boarer, a successful UK based racing driver. Their most successful driver was the Italian Giorgio Pantano whom the team propelled from Karting up to a Formula One test with Benetton in less than two years.
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1998
The team was launched at Stamford Bridge, Chelsea. The driver line up for the first season comprised Alf Boarer and Paul Sheard (Eurocar V6), Lars-Christian Brask and Steve Thompson (Legends Cars) and Mark McLoughlin (Formula First). Thompson finished third whilst McLaughlan was runner-up. Later in the season a new recruit, Westley Barber, won the Elf La Filiere Scholarship in France.
1999
Rapid expansion of the team saw several wins. Outside of the Eurocar package Andy Priaulx was the overall winner in the Renault Sport Spider championship. Danish drivers Jesper Carslen and Allan Simonsen were added to the line-up and formed part of the winning team at the 1999 Formula Ford World Cup. The team won or placed high in many other events:
2000
Giorgio Pantano took part in the German Formula Three Championship and won the title at the first attempt. In the Eurocar package Mark Willis finished second in the V8 competition formula. In total the team had 26 race wins.
2001
Alex Müller joined the team and took third place in the European Formula 3000 Championship. Pantano moved up from Formula Three to the FIA Formula 3000 Championship and won the Monza race. He was awarded "Autosprint Italian International driver of the year".