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{{short description|English cricketer and racing driver (1907{{ndash}}1937)}}
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| fullname = Patrick Greenway Fairfield
| birth_name = Patrick Greenway Fairfield
| birth_date = 26 November 1907
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1907|11|26|df=y}}
| birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England
| birth_place = [[Liverpool]], [[Lancashire]], England
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| death_date = {{Death date and age|1937|06|21|1907|11|26|df=y}}
| death_place = [[Le Mans]], [[Maine (province)|Maine]], France
| death_place = [[Le Mans]], [[Sarthe]], France
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| bowling = Left-arm [[Fast bowling|fast]]
| Best_Champ_Pos = 13th ([[1936 AAA Championship Car season|1936]])
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'''Patrick Greenway Fairfield''' (26 November 1907 – 21 July 1937) was an [[English people|English]] first-class [[cricket]]er and racing driver.
'''Patrick Greenway Fairfield''' (26 November 1907 – 21 June 1937) was a British [[racing driver]] and [[cricketer]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Motorsport Memorial - |url=http://motorsportmemorial.org/focus.php?db=ct&n=126 |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=motorsportmemorial.org}}</ref>
[[ Irfan Hyder Leghari]]


==Early life and cricket==
== Early life and cricket ==
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Fairfield was born at [[Liverpool]] in November 1907. When his parents divorced, and his mother remarried, he moved to South Africa at the age of 15, where his family owned a citrus farm at [[White River, Mpumalanga|White River]].<ref name="RAC">{{cite web|url=https://www.historicracing.com/driverDetail.cfm?driverID=8041|title=Pat Fairfield|publisher=www.historicracing.com|access-date=2021-04-29}}</ref> During his period in South Africa he was often known as Patrick Greenway Webster (using the surname of his stepfather).After completing his education at [[St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown|St. Andrew's College]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Marguerite|last=Poland|title=Iron Love|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCZbAAAAMAAJ|page=279|date=2000|publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin Books Limited]]|isbn=978-0-14-302699-0|author-link=Marguerite Poland}}</ref> his family believed he needed to gain a suitable degree to manage the farm, and so he applied to the [[University of Cambridge]]; average exam results at the time meant his application was unsuccessful. He left for England, where he attended a [[cram school]] in [[Eastbourne]] to prepare him for the Cambridge entry exams and was successful in entering Cambridge on the second attempt.<ref name="EXP">{{cite web|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1996/60/ex-pat-import|title=Ex-Pat Import|first=Andrew|last=Embleton|publisher=www.motorsportmagazine.com |access-date=2021-04-29}}</ref> While studying at Cambridge, he made two appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] in 1929 at [[Fenner's]], playing against [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] and the touring [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africans]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33710/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Patrick Webster|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-29|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Fairfield scored 21 runs in his two matches and took 6 wickets, with best figures of 4 for 86.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33710/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Webster|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-29|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33710/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Webster|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-29|url-access=subscription}}</ref>


Fairfield was born at [[Liverpool]] in November 1907. When his parents divorced, and his mother remarried, he moved to South Africa at the age of 15, where his family owned a citrus farm at [[White River, Mpumalanga|White River]].<ref name="RAC">{{cite web|url=https://www.historicracing.com/driverDetail.cfm?driverID=8041|title=Pat Fairfield|publisher=www.historicracing.com|access-date=2021-04-29}}</ref> During his period in South Africa he was often known as Patrick Greenway Webster (using the surname of his stepfather).
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==Racing career==

He met his future wife Jean Beckett at Cambridge and the completion of his studies, the couple returned to South Africa where they settled at White River and began farming.<ref name="EXP"/> He changed his surname to Fairfield at some point after his return to South Africa.<ref name="EXP"/> Developing an interest in motor racing, with the help of his mother he financed a move back to England in 1933 to pursue a career as a racing driver. There he joined with [[Cyril Paul]], another young and unexperienced racing driver, with the two working under [[Freddie Dixon]] in his [[Middlesbrough]] and [[Brooklands]]. In his first year he drove a [[Riley Motor|Riley]] Special, finishing 13th in the [[Ards Circuit|Ards TT]] of 1934.<ref name="EXP"/> In 1935 he purchased an 1100cc white [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]] from [[Raymond Mays]], the first such sale to a private buyer.<ref name="RAC"/> This bought him some success when he won the 1935 [[Douglas Circuit|Mannin Beg]], despite the failure of the car to start at the beginning of the race. He also won the Nuffield Trophy at [[Donington Park]] and the voiturette race at the [[Circuit Dieppe-St Aubin]].<ref name="RAC"/> He failed to win a race in 1936, but did finish third at the [[South African Grand Prix]] during his winter return to South Africa. He went one better in January 1937 and won the South African Grand Prix, then being staged at the [[Prince George Circuit]].<ref name="EXP"/> Having impressed Raymond Mays, he was invited to join the ERA works team for 1937. Fairfield won that years [[Coronation Trophy]] at [[Crystal Palace circuit]], before travelling to France to take part in the [[1937 24 Hours of Le Mans|24 Hours of Le Mans]] where he drove a [[Frazer Nash]]–[[BMW 328]] with teammate [[David Murray (racing driver)|David Murray]]. Eight laps into the race the aging [[Bugatti|Bugatti T44]] of Frenchman [[René Kippeurth]] crashed and overturned on the fast corner leading to the pit straight, with Fairfield unable to avoid hitting the stricken Bugatti before being shunted himself from behind by the [[Delage]] of the Frenchman [[Jean Trémoulet]]. Kippeurth was killed instantly in the accident, with Fairfield seriously injured and taken to hospital in [[Le Mans]], where he succumbed to his injuries two days later while being operated on.<ref name="RAC"/><ref name="EXP"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rlm.0157.org/1936.html|title=1936|publisher=Radio Le Mans|access-date=2021-04-29|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617195520/http://rlm.0157.org/1936.html|archive-date=2009-06-17}}</ref> The [[Pat Fairfield Trophy]] was run in his honour in South Africa in 1966 and 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chicanef1.com/indiv.pl?name=Pat%20Fairfield%20Trophy&type=O|title=Pat Fairfield Trophy|publisher=www.chicanef1.com|access-date=2021-04-29}}</ref>
After completing his education at [[St. Andrew's College, Grahamstown|St. Andrew's College]],<ref>{{cite book|first=Marguerite|last=Poland|title=Iron Love|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wCZbAAAAMAAJ|page=279|date=2000|publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin Books Limited]]|isbn=978-0-14-302699-0|author-link=Marguerite Poland}}</ref> Fairfield's family believed he needed to gain a suitable degree to manage the farm, and so he applied to the [[University of Cambridge]]; average exam results at the time meant his application was unsuccessful. He left for England, where he attended a [[cram school]] in [[Eastbourne]] to prepare him for the Cambridge entry exams and was successful in entering Cambridge on the second attempt.<ref name="EXP">{{cite web|url=https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/archive/article/may-1996/60/ex-pat-import|title=Ex-Pat Import|first=Andrew|last=Embleton|date=7 July 2014 |publisher=www.motorsportmagazine.com |access-date=2021-04-29}}</ref>

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While studying at Cambridge, Fairfield made two appearances in [[first-class cricket]] for [[Cambridge University Cricket Club|Cambridge University]] in 1929 at [[Fenner's]], playing against [[Nottinghamshire County Cricket Club|Nottinghamshire]] and the touring [[South Africa national cricket team|South Africans]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33710/First-Class_Matches.html|title=First-Class Matches played by Patrick Webster|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-29|url-access=subscription}}</ref> Fairfield scored 21 runs in his two matches and took 6 wickets, with best figures of 4 for 86.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33710/f_Batting_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Webster|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-29|url-access=subscription}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/33/33710/f_Bowling_by_Team.html|title=First-Class Bowling and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Webster|publisher=CricketArchive|access-date=2021-04-29|url-access=subscription}}</ref>

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== Racing career ==

Fairfield met his future wife Jean Beckett at Cambridge and the completion of his studies, the couple returned to South Africa where they settled at White River and began farming.<ref name="EXP"/> He changed his surname to Fairfield at some point after his return to South Africa.<ref name="EXP"/> Developing an interest in motor racing, with the help of his mother he financed a move back to England in 1933 to pursue a career as a racing driver.

In England, Fairfield joined with [[Cyril Paul]], another young and inexperienced racing driver, with the two working under [[Freddie Dixon]] in his [[Middlesbrough]] and [[Brooklands]]. During Fairfield's first year he drove a [[Riley Motor|Riley]] Special, finishing 13th in the [[Ards Circuit|Ards TT]] of 1934.<ref name="EXP"/> In 1935 he purchased an 1100cc white [[English Racing Automobiles|ERA]] from [[Raymond Mays]], the first such sale to a private buyer.<ref name="RAC"/> This bought him some success when he won the 1935 [[Douglas Circuit|Mannin Beg]], despite the failure of the car to start at the beginning of the race. He also won the Nuffield Trophy at [[Donington Park]] and the voiturette race at the [[Circuit Dieppe-St Aubin]].<ref name="RAC"/>

In 1936, Fairfield traveled to the U.S. to compete in the [[AAA Contest Board|American Automobile Association]]-sanctioned [[1936 Vanderbilt Cup|Vanderbilt Cup]]. He finished fifth driving an ERA.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Pat Fairchild |url=http://www.champcarstats.com/drivers/FairchildPat.htm |access-date=2024-03-30 |website=www.champcarstats.com}}</ref> He failed to win a race in 1936, but did finish third at the [[South African Grand Prix]] during his winter return to South Africa. He went one better in January 1937 and won the South African Grand Prix, then being staged at the [[Prince George Circuit]].<ref name="EXP"/> Having impressed Raymond Mays, he was invited to join the ERA works team for 1937. Fairfield won that years [[Coronation Trophy]] at [[Crystal Palace circuit]].

After his victory at Crystal Palace, Fairfield traveled to France to take part in the [[1937 24 Hours of Le Mans|24 Hours of Le Mans]], where he drove a [[Frazer Nash]]–[[BMW 328]] with [[David Murray (racing driver)|David Murray]]. Eight laps into the race the aging [[Bugatti|Bugatti T44]] of [[René Kippeurth]] crashed and overturned on the fast corner leading to the pit straight, with Fairfield unable to avoid hitting the stricken Bugatti before being shunted himself from behind by the [[Delage]] of the Frenchman [[Jean Trémoulet]]. Kippeurth was killed instantly in the accident, with Fairfield seriously injured and taken to hospital in [[Le Mans]], where he succumbed to his injuries two days later while being operated on.<ref name="RAC"/><ref name="EXP"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://rlm.0157.org/1936.html|title=1936|publisher=Radio Le Mans|access-date=2021-04-29|url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090617195520/http://rlm.0157.org/1936.html|archive-date=2009-06-17}}</ref>

== Memory ==

The [[Pat Fairfield Trophy]] was run in Fairfield's honour in South Africa during 1966 and 1967.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://chicanef1.com/indiv.pl?name=Pat%20Fairfield%20Trophy&type=O|title=Pat Fairfield Trophy|publisher=www.chicanef1.com|access-date=2021-04-29}}</ref>

== Motorsports career results ==

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=== 24 Hours of Le Mans results ===


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Latest revision as of 12:47, 1 April 2024

Pat Fairfield
BornPatrick Greenway Fairfield
(1907-11-26)26 November 1907
Liverpool, Lancashire, England
Died21 June 1937(1937-06-21) (aged 29)
Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Champ Car career
1 race run over 1 year
Best finish13th (1936)
First race1936 Vanderbilt Cup (Westbury)
Wins Podiums Poles
0 0 0
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1937
TeamsMurray
Best finishDNF (1937)
Class wins0

Patrick Greenway Fairfield (26 November 1907 – 21 June 1937) was a British racing driver and cricketer.[1]

Early life and cricket[edit]

Fairfield was born at Liverpool in November 1907. When his parents divorced, and his mother remarried, he moved to South Africa at the age of 15, where his family owned a citrus farm at White River.[2] During his period in South Africa he was often known as Patrick Greenway Webster (using the surname of his stepfather).

After completing his education at St. Andrew's College,[3] Fairfield's family believed he needed to gain a suitable degree to manage the farm, and so he applied to the University of Cambridge; average exam results at the time meant his application was unsuccessful. He left for England, where he attended a cram school in Eastbourne to prepare him for the Cambridge entry exams and was successful in entering Cambridge on the second attempt.[4]

While studying at Cambridge, Fairfield made two appearances in first-class cricket for Cambridge University in 1929 at Fenner's, playing against Nottinghamshire and the touring South Africans.[5] Fairfield scored 21 runs in his two matches and took 6 wickets, with best figures of 4 for 86.[6][7]

Racing career[edit]

Fairfield met his future wife Jean Beckett at Cambridge and the completion of his studies, the couple returned to South Africa where they settled at White River and began farming.[4] He changed his surname to Fairfield at some point after his return to South Africa.[4] Developing an interest in motor racing, with the help of his mother he financed a move back to England in 1933 to pursue a career as a racing driver.

In England, Fairfield joined with Cyril Paul, another young and inexperienced racing driver, with the two working under Freddie Dixon in his Middlesbrough and Brooklands. During Fairfield's first year he drove a Riley Special, finishing 13th in the Ards TT of 1934.[4] In 1935 he purchased an 1100cc white ERA from Raymond Mays, the first such sale to a private buyer.[2] This bought him some success when he won the 1935 Mannin Beg, despite the failure of the car to start at the beginning of the race. He also won the Nuffield Trophy at Donington Park and the voiturette race at the Circuit Dieppe-St Aubin.[2]

In 1936, Fairfield traveled to the U.S. to compete in the American Automobile Association-sanctioned Vanderbilt Cup. He finished fifth driving an ERA.[8] He failed to win a race in 1936, but did finish third at the South African Grand Prix during his winter return to South Africa. He went one better in January 1937 and won the South African Grand Prix, then being staged at the Prince George Circuit.[4] Having impressed Raymond Mays, he was invited to join the ERA works team for 1937. Fairfield won that years Coronation Trophy at Crystal Palace circuit.

After his victory at Crystal Palace, Fairfield traveled to France to take part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where he drove a Frazer Nash–BMW 328 with David Murray. Eight laps into the race the aging Bugatti T44 of René Kippeurth crashed and overturned on the fast corner leading to the pit straight, with Fairfield unable to avoid hitting the stricken Bugatti before being shunted himself from behind by the Delage of the Frenchman Jean Trémoulet. Kippeurth was killed instantly in the accident, with Fairfield seriously injured and taken to hospital in Le Mans, where he succumbed to his injuries two days later while being operated on.[2][4][9]

Memory[edit]

The Pat Fairfield Trophy was run in Fairfield's honour in South Africa during 1966 and 1967.[10]

Motorsports career results[edit]

24 Hours of Le Mans results[edit]

Year Team Co-Drivers Car Class Laps Pos. Class
Pos.
1937 United Kingdom David Murray United Kingdom David Murray BMW 328 2.0 8 DNF DNF
Source:[11]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Motorsport Memorial -". motorsportmemorial.org. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  2. ^ a b c d "Pat Fairfield". www.historicracing.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  3. ^ Poland, Marguerite (2000). Iron Love. Penguin Books Limited. p. 279. ISBN 978-0-14-302699-0.
  4. ^ a b c d e f Embleton, Andrew (7 July 2014). "Ex-Pat Import". www.motorsportmagazine.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  5. ^ "First-Class Matches played by Patrick Webster". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  6. ^ "First-Class Batting and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Webster". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  7. ^ "First-Class Bowling and Fielding For Each Team by Patrick Webster". CricketArchive. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  8. ^ "Pat Fairchild". www.champcarstats.com. Retrieved 30 March 2024.
  9. ^ "1936". Radio Le Mans. Archived from the original on 17 June 2009. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  10. ^ "Pat Fairfield Trophy". www.chicanef1.com. Retrieved 29 April 2021.
  11. ^ "All Results of Pat Fairfield". RacingSportsCars. Retrieved 29 April 2021.

External links[edit]

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