Cooper Car Company

Cooper

Full name	Cooper Car Company
Base	Surbiton, Surrey, United Kingdom
Founder(s)	Charles Cooper John Cooper
Noted drivers	Stirling Moss Maurice Trintignant Jack Brabham Bruce McLaren John Surtees Jochen Rindt Pedro Rodríguez
Formula One World Championship career
First entry	1950 Monaco Grand Prix
Races entered	129
Constructors' Championships	2 (1959, 1960)
Drivers' Championships	2 (1959, 1960)
Race victories	16
Pole positions	11
Fastest laps	14
Final entry	1969 Monaco Grand Prix

The Cooper Car Company is a British car manufacturer founded in December 1947 by Charles Cooper and his son John Cooper. Together with John's boyhood friend, Eric Brandon, they began by building racing cars in Charles's small garage in Surbiton, Surrey, England, in 1946. Through the 1950s and early 1960s they reached motor racing's highest levels as their mid-engined, single-seat cars competed in both Formula One and the Indianapolis 500, and their Mini Cooper dominated rally racing. The Cooper name lives on in the Cooper versions of the Mini production cars that are built in England, but is now owned and marketed by BMW.