Alan Brown (racing driver)
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| Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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| First start: | 1952 Swiss Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1953 Italian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1952 Ecurie Richmond · 1953 Cooper , RJ Chase, Equipe Anglaise | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | WM-16. ( 1952 ) | ||||||||
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| World Cup points : | 2 | ||||||||
| Podiums : | - | ||||||||
| Leadership laps : | - | ||||||||
Alan Everest Brown (born November 20, 1919 in Malton , Yorkshire , † January 20, 2004 in Guildford , Surrey ) was a British racing driver and racing team owner.
Career
Actually, Brown was in civil life car salesman a truck -Representation of Dennis Motors in Guildford , but he quickly made a name for himself as one of the fastest drivers in the 500-cm 3 - Formula 3 scene after the Second World War , by 1951 the Won Luxembourg Grand Prix in a Cooper .
Since the following automobile world championship in 1952 had been announced according to the previous Formula 2 regulations, Brown also registered as one of the 80 drivers. In the Cooper T20 - Bristol , which looked a bit fragile compared to the Ferrari , but which was extremely robust in practice, it achieved fifth place at the Bremgarten Grand Prix .
Since Brown stood out less for his basic speed than for his reliability, the industrialist Tony Vandervell entrusted him with the first test drives of the new Vanwall at Odiham Airfield in Hampshire . Alan was also entrusted with the monoposto for the 1954 racing debut at the Silverstone International Trophy . However, the later successes of the English Ferrari were to bring in other drivers.
Brown then only competed sporadically in racing with a Connaught , then with a Jaguar D-Type in sports car races , only to say goodbye to racing as a driver in 1956, to which he remained loyal as a team owner from now on.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1952 | Ecurie Richmond | Cooper T20 | Bristol 2.0 L6 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 16. |
| 1953 | Cooper Car Company | Cooper T20 | Bristol 2.0 L6 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| RJ Chase | Cooper T23 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| Equipe Anglaise | Cooper T23 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
| total | 8th | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | ||||
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 |
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| Legend | ||
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| colour | abbreviation | meaning |
| gold | - | victory |
| silver | - | 2nd place |
| bronze | - | 3rd place |
| green | - | Placement in the points |
| blue | - | Classified outside the point ranks |
| violet | DNF | Race not finished (did not finish) |
| NC | not classified | |
| red | DNQ | did not qualify |
| DNPQ | failed in pre-qualification (did not pre-qualify) | |
| black | DSQ | disqualified |
| White | DNS | not at the start (did not start) |
| WD | withdrawn | |
| Light Blue | PO | only participated in the training (practiced only) |
| TD | Friday test driver | |
| without | DNP | did not participate in the training (did not practice) |
| INJ | injured or sick | |
| EX | excluded | |
| DNA | did not arrive | |
| C. | Race canceled | |
| no participation in the World Cup | ||
| other | P / bold | Pole position |
| SR / italic | Fastest race lap | |
| * | not at the finish, but counted due to the distance covered |
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| () | Streak results | |
| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
| season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th |
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| 1953 | Equipe Anglaise | Cooper T25 |
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MIM
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RTT
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| 1954 | Robert Chase | Cooper T29 |
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Web links
- Kurzbiographie (English)
- Alan Brown on www.500race.org
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Brown, Alan |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Brown, Alan Everest (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Formula 1 racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 20, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Malton , Yorkshire , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 20, 2004 |
| Place of death | Guildford , Surrey , England |