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

 

Cooper Mk9 of 1956: This example is powered by an 1100-cc JAP engine.

 

This standard Cooper-Climax T53 F1 was donated to the IMS by Jim Hall in 1969. It is painted to look like Jack Brabham's 1961 Cooper-Climax T54, the car that began the rear-engine revolution at the Indianapolis 500. The real car is displayed at the Marconi Automotive Museum in Tustin, California.

 

Chevrolet-powered 1964 Cooper Monaco

 

A rear three-quarter picture of a Cooper T51, the first World Championship-winning mid-engined Formula One car

The Cooper Car Company was 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 rear-engined, single-seat cars altered the face of Formula One and the Indianapolis 500, and their Mini Cooper dominated rally racing Due in part to Cooper's legacy, Britain remains the home of a thriving racing industry, and the Cooper name lives on in the Cooper versions of the Mini production cars that are still built in England, but are now owned and marketed by BMW

Origins

The first cars built by the Coopers were single-seat 500-cc Formula Three racing cars driven by John Cooper and Eric Brandon, and powered by a JAP motorcycle engine. Since materials were in short supply immediately after World War II, the prototypes were constructed by joining two old Fiat Topolino front-ends together. According to John Cooper, the stroke of genius that would make the Coopers an automotive legend—the location of the engine behind the driver—was merely a practical matter at the time. Because the car was powered by a motorcycle engine, they believed it was more convenient to have the engine in the back, driving a chain. In fact there was nothing new about 'mid' engined racing cars but there is no doubt Coopers led the way in popularizing what was to become the dominant arrangement for racing cars.

Called the Cooper 500, this car's success in hillclimbs and on track, including Eric winning the 500 race at one of the first postwar meetings at Gransden Lodge Airfield, quickly created demand from other drivers (including, over the years, Stirling Moss, Peter Collins, Jim Russell, Ivor Bueb, Ken Tyrrell, and Bernie Ecclestone) and led to the establishment of the Cooper Car Company to build more. The business grew by providing an inexpensive entry to motorsport for seemingly every aspiring young British driver, and the company became the world's first and largest postwar, specialist manufacturer of racing cars for sale to privateers.

Cooper built up to 300 single-and twin-cylinder cars during the 1940s and 1950s, and dominated the F3 category, winning 64 of 78 major races between 1951 and 1954. This volume of construction was unique and enabled the company to grow into the senior categories; With a modified Cooper 500 chassis, a T12 model, Cooper had its first taste of top-tier racing when Harry Schell qualified for the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix. Though Schell retired in the first lap, this marked the first appearance of a rear-engined racer at a Grand Prix event since the end of WWII.

The front-engined Formula Two Cooper Bristol model was introduced in 1952. Various iterations of this design were driven by a number of legendary drivers – among them Juan Manuel Fangio and Mike Hawthorn – and furthered the company's growing reputation by appearing in Grand Prix races, which at the time were run to F2 regulations. Until the company began building rear-engined sports cars in 1955, they really had not become aware of the benefits of having the engine behind the driver. Based on the 500-cc cars and powered by a modified Coventry Climax fire-pump engine, these cars were called "Bobtails". With the center of gravity closer to the middle of the car, they found it was less liable to spins and much more effective at putting the power down to the road, so they decided to build a single-seater version and began entering it in Formula 2 races.

Rear-engined revolution

 

Cooper T39/Climax cars Goodwood 30 May 1955, Equipe Endeavour Chief Mechanic John Crosthwaite facing cars

 

1956 Silverstone GP Formula 2 race winner Roy Salvadori with foot on tyre of Cooper T41

Jack Brabham raised some eyebrows when he took sixth place at the 1957 Monaco Grand Prix in a rear-engined Formula 1 Cooper. When Stirling Moss won the 1958 Argentine Grand Prix in Rob Walker's privately entered Cooper and Maurice Trintignant duplicated the feat in the next race at Monaco, the racing world was stunned and a rear-engined revolution had begun. The next year, 1959, Brabham and the Cooper works team became the first to win the Formula One World Championship in a rear-engined car. Both team and driver repeated the feat in 1960, and every World Champion since has been sitting in front of his engine.

The little-known designer behind the car was Owen Maddock, who was employed by Cooper Car Company. Maddock was known as 'The Beard' by his workmates, and 'Whiskers' to Charles Cooper. Maddock was a familiar figure in the drivers' paddock of the 1950s in open-neck shirt and woolly jumper and a prime force behind the rise of British racing cars to their dominant position in the 1960s. Describing how the revolutionary rear-engined Cooper chassis came to be, Maddock explained, "I'd done various schemes for the new car which I'd shown to Charlie Cooper. He kept saying 'Nah, Whiskers, that's not it, try again.' Finally, I got so fed up I sketched a frame in which every tube was bent, meant just as a joke. I showed it to Charlie and to my astonishment he grabbed it and said: 'That's it!' " Maddock later pioneered one of the first designs for a honeycomb monocoque stressed skin composite chassis, and helped develop Cooper's C5S racing gearbox.

Brabham took one of the championship-winning Cooper T53 "Lowlines" to Indianapolis Motor Speedway for a test in 1960, then entered the famous 500-mile race in a larger, longer, and offset car based on the 1960 F1 design, the unique Type T54. Arriving at the Speedway 5 May 1961, the "funny" little car from Europe was mocked by the other teams, but it ran as high as third and finished ninth. It took a few years, but the Indianapolis establishment gradually realized the writing was on the wall and the days of their front-engined roadsters were numbered. Beginning with Jim Clark, who drove a rear-engined Lotus in 1965, every winner of the Indianapolis 500 has had the engine in the back. The revolution begun by the little chain-driven Cooper 500 was complete.

Once every Formula car manufacturer began building rear-engined racers, the practicality and intelligent construction of Cooper's single-seaters was overtaken by more sophisticated technology from Lola, Lotus, BRM, and Ferrari. The Cooper team's decline was accelerated when John Cooper was seriously injured in a road accident in 1963 driving a twin-engined Mini, and Charles Cooper died in 1964.

The final years

After the death of his father, John Cooper sold the Cooper Formula One team to the Chipstead Motor Group in April 1965. The same year, the Formula One team moved from Surbiton to a modern factory unit at Canada Road, Oyster Lane in Byfleet, just along the road from Brabham in New Haw and close to Alan Mann Racing. Cooper's 1965 season petered out and at the end of the year, number one driver Bruce McLaren left to build his own F1 car for the new for 1966 3-litre formula. Cooper's new owners held the Maserati concession for the UK and arrangements were made for Cooper to build a new 3-litre Cooper-Maserati car which would be available for sale as well being raced by the works team. The Maserati engine was an updated and enlarged version of the 2.5-litre V-12 which had made sporadic appearances in the works 250Fs in 1957. It was an old design, heavy and thirsty and the new Cooper T81 chassis built to take it was necessarily on the large side, in spite of which the bulky V-12 always looked though it was spilling out of the back. Three cars were sold to private owners, one each to Rob Walker for Jo Siffert to drive, Jo Bonnier's Anglo Swiss Racing Team, and French privateer Guy Ligier. None of these cars achieved much success.

Jochen Rindt was entering the second year of his three-year contract, but with the departure of McLaren, Cooper had a seat to fill in the second car and with the team's recent lack of success, understandably, a large queue of potential drivers was not forming at Canada Road. In the circumstances, Cooper were fortunate to acquire the services of Honda's Richie Ginther, who was temporarily unemployed due to the Japanese company's late development of their new 3-litre car. After a couple of races, Ginther was recalled by Honda to commence testing of their new car and the American was no doubt more than somewhat chagrined to discover that it was even bigger and heavier than the Cooper. After making a one-off arrangement with Chris Amon (unemployed due to the McLaren team's engine problems) to drive in the French Grand Prix, Cooper had an enormous stroke of luck when John Surtees became available after falling out with Ferrari. Once conflicting fuel contract issues were resolved (Surtees was with Shell, Cooper with BP), Surtees joined the team. Cooper honoured its commitment to Amon, so three cars were run in the French GP. Subsequently, the team reverted to two entries for Surtees and Rindt and with the former Ferrari driver's development skills and a switch to Firestone tyres, the car was improved to the point that Surtees was able to win the final race of the year in Mexico.

Surtees left to join Honda for 1967 and Pedro Rodríguez joined Rindt in the team and immediately won the opening race of 1967 in South Africa in an unlikely Cooper one-two. This was a fortuitous win for Rodríguez, as he was being outpaced by Rhodesian John Love in his three-year-old ex McLaren Tasman Cooper powered by a 2.7-litre Coventry Climax FPF. Unfortunately, Love had to make a late pit stop for fuel and could only finish second. This was to be Cooper's last ever Grand Prix victory. The rest of the 1967 season had the team's fortunes steadily decline and the midseason appearance of the lighter and slimmer T86 chassis failed to improve things. Rindt, impatiently seeing out his Cooper contract, deliberately blew up his increasingly antiquated Maserati engine in the US Grand Prix and was dropped for the final race of the year in Mexico.

For 1968, Cooper would have liked to have joined the queue for the Cosworth-Ford DFV, but felt that its connections to British Leyland with the Mini-Coopers made this inadvisable. Instead, a deal was done with BRM for the use of its 3-litre V-12, originally conceived as a sports car unit, but which BRM themselves would be using in 1968. A slightly modified version of the T86 was built for the new engine, dubbed T86B and Italian ex-Ferrari driver Ludovico Scarfiotti and young Englishman Brian Redman were employed to drive it. The cars managed three-four finishes in the Spanish and Monaco Grands Prix, largely thanks to the unreliability of the competition, but then Scarfiotti was killed driving a Porsche in the Rossfeld hill climb and Redman had a big accident in the Belgian Grand Prix which put him out of action for several months. Cooper continued the season with a motley collection of drivers, none of whom could make anything of the outclassed T86B. During the season, Cooper built a modified chassis, the T86C, intended to take an Alfa Romeo 3-litre V-8 but the project was stillborn.

The beginning of the end for the Cooper Car Company was in 1969, as it tried, and failed, to find sponsorship for a new Cosworth DFV-powered car and there were many redundancies. Frank Boyles was the last to leave, since he was in charge of building customer cars and it had been hoped that some more F2 cars would be sold. Frank went on to design and build a Formula Ford car called the Oscar and also a series of Oval Circuit cars known as Fireballs. Driving the rear-engine version of this car, Frank won more than 200 races during a period up until 1975 in a car he had designed and raced himself. This record is believed to have never been beaten.

In all, Coopers participated in 129 Formula One World Championship events in nine years, winning 16 races.

Besides Formula One cars, Cooper offered a series of Formula Junior cars. These were the T52, T56, T59, and T67 models. Ken Tyrrell ran a very successful team with John Love and Tony Maggs as his drivers. Following the demise of Formula Junior, Ken Tyrrell tested Jackie Stewart in a Formula Three car, a Cooper T72. This test at the Goodwood Circuit marked the start of partnership which dominated motorsport later on.

In October 2009, Mike Cooper, the son of John Cooper, launched Cooper Bikes, the bicycle division of the Cooper Car Company.

Formula One results

The table below details the complete World Championship Grand Prix results of the Formula One constructor Cooper between 1950 and 1969.

It includes results from the works team as well as privately entered cars Since the Constructor's Championship points were awarded to chassis-engine combinations rather than entrants, the table is sorted first by engine manufacturer then by entrant

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap; † denotes shared drives)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	Constructor	Points	WCC
1950	Horschell Racing Corporation	T12	JAP 1.1 V2	D		GBR	MON	500	SUI	BEL	FRA	ITA						Cooper-JAP	n/a	n/a[a]
					Harry Schell		Ret
1952						SUI	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	NED	ITA					Cooper-Bristol	n/a	n/a[a]
	Leslie D. Hawthorn	T20	Bristol BS1 2.0 L6	D	Mike Hawthorn			4		3		4	Ret
	AHM Bryde								Ret
					Reg Parnell					7
	Ecurie Richmond				Alan Brown	8		9		20			13
					Eric Brandon	5		6		22			15
	Ecurie Ecosse				David Murray					Ret
1953				D		ARG	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	SUI	ITA				Cooper-Bristol	n/a	n/a[a]
	Cooper Car Company	T20 T21 T23	Bristol BS1 2.0 L6		John Barber	8
					Adolfo Schwelm Cruz	Ret
					Alan Brown	9
	R.J. Chase	T23									Ret
	Equipe Anglaise	T23										Ret		12
					Helmut Glöckler							DNS
	Ken Wharton	T23			Ken Wharton			Ret		Ret	8		7	NC
	Bob Gerard	T23			Bob Gerard					11	Ret
	Rodney Nuckey	T23			Rodney Nuckey							11
	Ecurie Ecosse	T20			Jimmy Stewart						Ret
	Tony Crook	T20			Tony Crook						Ret
	Cooper Car Company	T20 T21 T23	Alta GP 2.5 L4	D	Stirling Moss					Ret		6		13				Cooper-Alta	n/a	n/a[a]
	Atlantic Stable	T24			Peter Whitehead						9
1954	Bob Gerard	T23	Bristol BS1 2.0 L6	D		ARG	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	SUI	ITA	ESP				Cooper-Bristol	n/a	n/a[a]
					Bob Gerard					10
	Gould's Garage (Bristol)	T23			Horace Gould					15
	Ecurie Richmond	T23			Eric Brandon					Ret
					Rodney Nuckey					DNS
	R.J. Chase	T23			Alan Brown					DNS
	Peter Whitehead	T24	Alta GP 2.5 L4	D	Peter Whitehead					Ret								Cooper-Alta	n/a	n/a[a]
1955	Cooper Car Company	T40	Bristol BS1 2.0 L6	D		ARG	MON	500	BEL	NED	GBR	ITA						Cooper-Bristol	n/a	n/a[a]
					Jack Brabham						Ret
1956	Bob Gerard	T23	Bristol BS1 2.0 L6	D		ARG	MON	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA					Cooper-Bristol	n/a	n/a[a]
					Bob Gerard						11
1957	Cooper Car Company	T43	Climax FPF 2.0 L4 Climax FPF 1.5 L4	A D		ARG	MON	500	FRA	GBR	GER	PES	ITA					Cooper-Climax	n/a	n/a[a]
					Roy Salvadori					5	Ret	Ret
					Mike MacDowel				7†
					Les Leston		DNQ
					Jack Brabham		6		7†/Ret
	R.R.C. Walker Racing Team	T43	Climax FPF 2.0 L4	D						Ret		7
			Climax FPF 1.5 L4								Ret
	J.B. Naylor	T43			Brian Naylor						13
	Ridgeway Management	T41 T43			Tony Marsh						15
					Paul England						Ret
	Dick Gibson	T43			Dick Gibson						Ret
	Bob Gerard	T44	Bristol BS2 2.2 L6	D	Bob Gerard					6								Cooper-Bristol	n/a	n/a[a]
1958	Rob Walker Racing Team	T43 T45	Climax FPF 2.0 L4	C D		ARG	MON	NED	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	POR	ITA	MOR		Cooper-Climax	31	3rd
					Maurice Trintignant		1	9				8	3	8	Ret	Ret
					Stirling Moss	1
					Ron Flockhart		DNQ
		T43	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D	François Picard											Ret
	Cooper Car Company	T45 T44	Climax FPF 2.0 L4 Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D	Roy Salvadori		Ret	4		8	11	3	2	9	5	7
					Jack Brabham		4	8		Ret	6	6	Ret	7	Ret	11
					Bruce McLaren								5			13
					Jack Fairman											8
					Ian Burgess							Ret
	High Efficiency Motors	T43	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	D									7
	Tony Marsh	T45			Tony Marsh								8
	Robert La Caze	T45			Robert La Caze											14
	André Guelfi	T45			André Guelfi											15
	Dick Gibson	T43			Dick Gibson								Ret
	Ecurie Eperon d'Or	T43			Christian Goethals								Ret
	J.B. Naylor	T45			Brian Naylor								Ret
	Scuderia Centro Sud	T43			Wolfgang Seidel								Ret
	British Racing Partnership	T45			Tom Bridger											Ret
1959	Cooper Car Company	T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	D		MON	500	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	POR	ITA	USA				Cooper-Climax	40 (53)	1st
					Jack Brabham	1		2	3	1	Ret	Ret	3	4
					Bruce McLaren	5			5	3	Ret	Ret	Ret	1
					Masten Gregory	Ret		3	Ret	7	Ret	2
					Giorgio Scarlatti								12
	Rob Walker Racing Team	T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4		Maurice Trintignant	3		8	11	5	4	4	9	2
					Stirling Moss	Ret		Ret			Ret	1	1	Ret
	R.H.H. Parnell	T45 T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Henry Taylor					11
					Tim Parnell					DNQ
	Alan Brown Equipe	T45	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Peter Ashdown					12
					Mike Taylor					Ret
	High Efficiency Motors	T45	Climax FPF 2.5 L4		Jack Fairman					Ret
	Ecurie Bleue	T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4		Harry Schell									Ret
	Taylor-Crawley Racing Team	T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4		George Constantine					Ret
	Equipe Nationale Belge	T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Alain de Changy	DNQ
					Lucien Bianchi	DNQ
	British Racing Partnership	T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Ivor Bueb	DNQ
	Jean Lucienbonnet	T45	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Jean Lucienbonnet	DNQ
	Ace Garage - Rotherham	T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Trevor Taylor					DNQ
	Gilby Engineering	T45	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Keith Greene					DNQ
	United Racing Stable	T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4		Bill Moss					DNQ
	Scuderia Centro Sud	T51	Maserati 250S 2.5 L6	D	Ian Burgess				Ret	Ret	6		14					Cooper-Maserati	0	-
					Mario Araujo de Cabral							10
					Colin Davis				Ret				11
					Hans Herrmann					Ret
	High Efficiency Motors	T45			Roy Salvadori	6			Ret					Ret
					Jack Fairman					Ret			Ret
	British Racing Partnership	T51	Borgward 1500 RS 1.5 L6	D	Chris Bristow					10								Cooper-Borgward	0	-
					Ivor Bueb					13
	OSCA Automobili	T43	OSCA 2.0 L6	D	Alejandro de Tomaso									Ret				Cooper-OSCA	0	-
1960	Cooper Car Company	T51 T53	Climax FPF 2.5 L4	D		ARG	MON	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	POR	ITA	USA			Cooper-Climax	48 (58)	1st
					Jack Brabham	Ret	DSQ		1	1	1	1	1		4
					Bruce McLaren	1	2		Ret	2	3	4	2		3
					Chuck Daigh							Ret
					Ron Flockhart										Ret
	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	T51			Olivier Gendebien					3	2	9	7		12
					Tony Brooks		4		Ret	Ret		5	5		Ret
					Henry Taylor				7		4	8			14
					Phil Hill										6
					Chris Bristow		Ret		Ret	Ret
					Bruce Halford						8
	Fred Tuck Cars	T51					DNQ
					Lucien Bianchi						Ret	Ret
	Equipe Nationale Belge	T45								6
	Rob Walker Racing Team	T51			Maurice Trintignant	3†
					Stirling Moss	Ret/3†
					Lance Reventlow							PO
	High Efficiency Motors	T51			Roy Salvadori		Ret								8
	Ecurie Maarsbergen	T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Carel Godin de Beaufort				8
	Scuderia Colonia	T43	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Piero Drogo									8
	Wolfgang Seidel	T45	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Wolfgang Seidel									9
	Ecurie Bleue	T51	Climax FPF 2.2 L4		Harry Schell	Ret
	C.T. Atkins	T51	Climax FPF 2.5 L4		Jack Fairman							Ret
	Arthur Owen	T45	Climax FPF 2.2 L4		Arthur Owen									Ret
	Equipe Prideaux/Dick Gibson	T43	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Vic Wilson									Ret
	Scuderia Centro Sud	T51	Maserati 250S 2.5 L6	D	Carlos Menditeguy	4												Cooper-Maserati	3	5th
					Masten Gregory		DNQ		DNS		9	14	Ret
					Wolfgang von Trips										9
					Ian Burgess		DNQ					Ret		10	Ret
					Roberto Bonomi	11
					Maurice Trintignant		Ret		Ret		Ret				15
					Mário de Araújo Cabral								Ret
					Alfonso Thiele									Ret
	Gilby Engineering	T45			Keith Greene							Ret
	Scuderia Eugenio Castellotti	T51	Castellotti 2.5 L4	D	Giulio Cabianca									4				Cooper-Castellotti	3	6th
					Gino Munaron						Ret	15		Ret
					Giorgio Scarlatti		DNQ							Ret
	Fred Armbruster	T45	Ferrari 107 2.5 L4	D	Pete Lovely										11			Cooper-Ferrari	0	-
1961	Cooper Car Company	T55 T58	Climax FPF 1.5 L4 Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	D		MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA					Cooper-Climax	14 (18)	4th
					Bruce McLaren	6	12	Ret	5	8	6	3	4
					Jack Brabham	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	4	NC	Ret	Ret
	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		John Surtees	11	7	5	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	Ret
					Roy Salvadori				8	6	10	6	Ret
	H&L Motors	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Jackie Lewis			9	Ret	Ret	9	4
	John M. Wyatt III	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Roger Penske								8
	Camoradi International	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Masten Gregory	DNQ	DNS	10	12	11
					Ian Burgess						12
	Hap Sharp	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Hap Sharp								10
	Bernard Collomb	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Bernard Collomb				Ret		NC
	Fred Tuck Cars	T45	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Jack Fairman							Ret
	Momo Corporation	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Walt Hansgen								Ret
	Scuderia Serenissima	T51	Maserati 6-1500 1.5 L4	D	Maurice Trintignant	7		Ret	13		Ret	9						Cooper-Maserati	0	-
	Scuderia Centro Sud	T51 T53			Lorenzo Bandini			Ret		12	Ret	8
					Massimo Natili					Ret		DNS			9
	Pescara Racing Team	T45			Renato Pirocchi							12
1962	Cooper Car Company	T55 T60	Climax FPF 1.5 L4 Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	D		NED	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	RSA				Cooper-Climax	29 (37)	3rd
					Bruce McLaren	Ret	1	Ret	4	3	5	3	3	2
					Tony Maggs	5	Ret	Ret	2	6	9	7	7	3
					Timmy Mayer								Ret
	Ecurie Galloise	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Jackie Lewis	8	DNQ		Ret	10	Ret
	John Love	T55	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		John Love									8
	Anglo-American Equipe	T59	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Ian Burgess					12	11	DNQ
	Hap Sharp	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Hap Sharp								11
	Bernard Collomb	T53	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Bernard Collomb						Ret
	Mike Harris	T53	Alfa Romeo Guilietta 1.5 L4	D	Mike Harris									Ret				Cooper-Alfa Romeo	0	-
1963	Cooper Car Company	T66	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	D		MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA			Cooper-Climax	25 (26)	5th
					Bruce McLaren	3	2	Ret	12	Ret	Ret	3	11	Ret	4
					Tony Maggs	5	7	Ret	2	9	Ret	6	Ret	Ret	7
	R.R.C. Walker Racing Team	T60	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8		Jo Bonnier	7	5	11	NC	Ret	6	7	8	5	6
	John Love	T55	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		John Love										9
	Scuderia Centro Sud	T60	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8		Mário de Araújo Cabral						Ret	DNQ
	Frank Dochnal	T51	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		Frank Dochnal									DNQ
	Scuderia Lupini	T51	Maserati 6-1500 1.5 L4	D	Trevor Blokdyk										12			Cooper-Maserati	0	-
	Scuderia Centro Sud	T53			Ernesto Brambilla							DNQ
1964	Cooper Car Company	T66 T73	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	D		MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	USA	MEX			Cooper-Climax	16	5th
					Bruce McLaren	Ret	7	2	6	Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	7
					Phil Hill	9	8	Ret	7	6	Ret	Ret		Ret	9
	R.R.C. Walker Racing Team	T66	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8		Jo Bonnier	5
					Edgar Barth						Ret
	Fabre Urbain	T60	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8		Jean-Claude Rudaz								DNS
	Bob Gerard Racing	T73	Ford 109E 1.5 L4	D	John Taylor					14								Cooper-Ford	0	-
1965	Cooper Car Company	T73 T77	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	D		RSA	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX			Cooper-Climax	14	5th
					Bruce McLaren	5	5	3	Ret	10	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	Ret
					Jochen Rindt	Ret	DNQ	11	Ret	14	Ret	4	8	6	Ret
	John Love	T55	Climax FPF 1.5 L4		John Love	Ret
	Bob Gerard Racing	T60	Climax FPF 1.5 V8		John Rhodes					Ret
	Trevor Blokdyk	T59	Ford 109E 1.5 L4	D	Trevor Blokdyk	DNQ												Cooper-Ford	0	-
	Bob Gerard Racing	T73			Alan Rollinson					DNQ
1966	Cooper Car Company	T81	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12	D		MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX				Cooper-Maserati	30 (35)	3rd
					Jochen Rindt	Ret	2	4	5	Ret	3	4	2	Ret
					John Surtees			Ret	Ret	Ret	2	Ret	3	1
					Richie Ginther	Ret	5
					Chris Amon			8
					Moisés Solana									Ret
	R.R.C. Walker Racing Team	T81			Jo Siffert		Ret	Ret	NC	Ret		Ret	4	Ret
	Joakim Bonnier Racing Team	T81		D F	Joakim Bonnier	NC	Ret			7	Ret	Ret	NC	6
	Guy Ligier	T81		D	Guy Ligier	NC	NC	NC	10	9	DNS
	J.A. Pearce Engineering Ltd	T73	Ferrari 218 3.0 V12	D	Chris Lawrence				11		Ret							Cooper-Ferrari	0	-
1967	Cooper Car Company	T81 T81B T86	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12 Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12	F		RSA	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX		Cooper-Maserati	28	3rd
					Pedro Rodríguez	1	5	Ret	9	6	5	8				6
					Jochen Rindt	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	4	Ret
					Jacky Ickx									6	Ret
					Alan Rees						9
					Richard Attwood								10
	Rob Walker/Jack Durlacher Racing Team	T81	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12		Jo Siffert	Ret	Ret	10	7	4	Ret	Ret	DNS	Ret	4	12
	Joakim Bonnier Racing Team	T81	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12		Joakim Bonnier	Ret			Ret		Ret	6	8	Ret	6	10
	Guy Ligier	T81	Maserati 9/F1 3.0 V12	D F	Guy Ligier				10	NC
	John Love	T79	Climax FPF 2.8 L4	F	John Love	2												Cooper-Climax	6	9th
	Tom Jones	T82	Climax FWMV 2.0 V8	?	Tom Jones								DNQ
	Charles Vögele Racing	T77	ATS 2.7 V8	D	Silvio Moser						Ret							Cooper-ATS	0	-
1968	Cooper Car Company	T86B T86C	BRM 3.0 V12	F G		RSA	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	Cooper-BRM	14	7th
					Brian Redman		3		Ret
					Ludovico Scarfiotti		4	4
					Lucien Bianchi			3	6	Ret			Ret		NC	NC	Ret
					Vic Elford						4	Ret	Ret	Ret	5	Ret	8
					Johnny Servoz-Gavin						Ret
					Robin Widdows							Ret
		T81B	Maserati 3.0 V12		Brian Redman	Ret												Cooper-Maserati	0	-
		T86			Ludovico Scarfiotti	Ret
	Rob Walker/Jack Durlacher Racing Team	T81		F	Jo Siffert	7
	Joakim Bonnier Racing Team	T81		G	Joakim Bonnier	Ret
	John Love	T79	Climax 2.8 L4	F	Basil van Rooyen	Ret												Cooper-Climax	0	-
1969	Antique Automobiles	T86B	Maserati 10/F1 3.0 V12	G		RSA	SPA	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX		Cooper-Maserati	0	-
					Vic Elford			7

[a] The Constructors Championship not awarded until 1958.

Mini legacy

As the company's fortunes in Formula One declined, however, the John Cooper-conceived Mini Cooper – introduced in 1961 as a development of the Alec Issigonis-designed British Motor Corporation Mini with a more powerful engine, new brakes, and a distinctive livery – continued to dominate in saloon car and rally races throughout the 1960s, winning many championships and the 1964, 1965, and 1967 Monte Carlo rallies.

Several different Cooper-marked versions of the Mini and various Cooper conversion kits have been, and continue to be, marketed by various companies. The current BMW MINI, in production since 2001, has Cooper and Cooper S models and a number of John Cooper Works tuner packages.

Coopers Garage

On 1 April 1968, John Cooper leased the building, 243 Ewell Road, to the Metropolitan Police and the local Traffic Division (V Victor) moved in. They would stay there for the next 25 years and 'TDV' would become one of the busier police garages. In August 1968, they were supplied with the two Mini Coopers, index numbers PYT767F and PYT768F. The centre boss of the steering wheel was replaced by a speaker and microphone and a PTT transmitter switch, was added to the steering column. The sight of a six-foot bobby getting into the Mini greatly amused the locals. The vehicles were trialled for a number of months, but no orders were placed for other garages.