John Lawrence (racing driver)

John "Jock" Lawrence (born October 14, 1931 - September 15, 2006 ) was a British racing driver .

Career

John Lawrence was active as a racing driver in the 1950s. He had his first successes in 1953 at national club races in Great Britain and entered international sports car racing in the middle of the decade. He won a total of 13 races and reached the top three podium 30 times. In 1953 he competed for Ecurie Ecosse on a Jaguar C-Type together with Jimmy Stewart in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring and finished this event in sixth place overall.

He celebrated his greatest success in 1957 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . With partner Ninian Sanderson he finished second overall.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1957	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ninian Sanderson	Rank 2
1958	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ninian Sanderson	failure	overheated cylinder
1959	Ecurie Ecosse	Tojeiro	Ron Flockhart	failure	Motor overheated

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1953	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar C-Type	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
							6th
1956	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
							DNF
1957	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						11	2	8th
1958	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						9	DNF
1959	Ecurie Ecosse	Tojeiro	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF	DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .

Web links

• John Lawrence at Racing Sports Cars