The founding of BRX was announced on June 15, 2020, when the Kingdom of Bahrain revealed plans for the team. Mumtalakat Holding Company, Bahrain's sovereign wealth fund, entered into a strategic partnership with Prodrive to create Prodrive International as the operational entity. The team is directed by David Richards, the long-serving head of Prodrive, with Gus Beteli serving as team principal. BRX competes using the Prodrive BRX Hunter, a purpose-built off-road rally raid vehicle developed by Prodrive specifically for the demanding conditions of desert rally raid competition.
BRX made their competitive debut at the 2021 Dakar Rally, fielding a lineup that included nine-time World Rally Championship winner Sébastien Loeb and veteran Dakar campaigner Nani Roma. Roma delivered the team's first notable result, finishing fifth in the T1 cars category, while Loeb did not complete the event. Despite the mixed outcome, the debut demonstrated the Hunter's potential in one of motorsport's most gruelling events.
The 2022 season marked BRX's entry into the inaugural World Rally-Raid Championship, the newly structured series consolidating the sport's premier events. At the 2022 Dakar Rally, Loeb posted a strong second-place finish, with Orlando Terranova fourth and Nani Roma 21st. Roma subsequently withdrew from the full W2RC campaign due to health issues. In the Abu Dhabi Desert Challenge, Loeb briefly held the W2RC points lead with 112 points, narrowly ahead of Nasser Al-Attiyah on 111 points, underscoring the team's competitiveness across the championship calendar.
BRX returned to both the W2RC and Dakar in 2023 with an updated fleet of Hunters. Loeb and Terranova continued as the core factory pairing, while Guerlain Chicherit ran a Hunter entered under the GCK Motorsport banner but operated by BRX. Customer driver Vaidotas Žala also competed at the 2023 Dakar under the Teltonika Racing name aboard a BRX-prepared Hunter.
At the 2023 Dakar Rally, Loeb produced arguably the most dominant extended stage run in the event's modern era, winning seven stages in total and setting a record for the most consecutive stage wins in Dakar history — six successive stage victories from stage 8 through to stage 13. Chicherit contributed two further stage wins and finished tenth overall, while Loeb ultimately ended second. However, the Hunter was troubled by a persistent vulnerability to punctures, with all Hunter crews suffering heavy time losses on the rocky second stage, and further mechanical problems throughout the event. Terranova retired after aggravating a pre-existing back injury, and Žala was eliminated by mechanical failure. Loeb's final deficit to the overall winner was 1 hour, 20 minutes, and 49 seconds, illustrating how close a first Dakar title for BRX might have been without the reliability issues.
BRX represents one of the most high-profile team launches in rally raid's modern era, combining the financial backing of a sovereign wealth fund with Prodrive's decades of motorsport engineering expertise. The team has positioned Bahrain as a participant in the highest level of off-road motorsport, providing a competitive platform for Loeb's continued pursuit of Dakar glory well into his career. The Hunter has proven capable of winning stages and contending for overall honours, though reliability has repeatedly denied the team the outright victory their pace has deserved.