Entrepreneur Harry Maessen founded the racing series and a test was conducted at his own racetrack, Circuit de Peel.

[1] The car made its competition debut in the Dutch Winter Endurance Series New Years race at Circuit Park Zandvoort 2004.

Drivers Jeroen Reijntjes and Sandor van Es placed the car on pole position, but technical difficulties prevented a strong finish.

Cor Euser, racing a Jeff Gordon resembling paint scheme, won the first pole position.

[4] The level of competition went up the following year with Kurt Thiim and Jeroen Bleekemolen joining the series and Xavier Maessen and Marc Goossens making guest appearances.

The class was the successor of the previous VEGE Series (2000-2004) and featured a less powerful Ford Duratec engine.

The 2004 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters driver won eleven out of fifteen races, dominating the championship.

[8] The BRL joined the Belgian and Dutch rounds of the 2007 Champ Car season at Zolder and Assen.

[9] The final races of the season, at Zandvoort, were marred by an incident involving 2005-2006 BRL Light champion Marijn van Kalmthout.

During qualifying Van Kalmthout went off track in a yellow flag zone almost hitting a rescue vehicle and marshal.

[11] In 2009 Donny Crevels beat Collé Racing driver Sandor van Es for the second place in the championship.

[13] As the races in the Dutch Supercar Challenge had a semi-endurance set-up the BRL V6 cars were modified.

Niels Bouwhuis claimed the championship in the final round, beating Nelson van der Pol by seven points.

[20] In early 2008, the 2001 Formula Chrysler Euroseries, champion, Ricardo van der Ende tested the renewed car at Zolder.

[21] The field was made up of young talent, such as Thomas Hylkema and Henk Vuik, Jr., and experienced BRL racing names such as Barry Maessen and Henry Zumbrink.

The 2003 Dutch Formula Ford Zetec champion Nelson van der Pol won the second race.