Alan Stacey

Alan Stacey

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1958 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 Belgian Grand Prix
Constructors
1958-1960 Lotus
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Alan Stacey (born August 29, 1933 in Broomfield , Essex , † June 19, 1960 in Spa , Belgium ) was an English racing driver.

Career

Belgian Grand Prix 1960: the burned-out racing car.

Coming from a farming family, the extroverted Stacey showed great driving talent from an early age. This was all the more surprising since he suffered from a physical disability. His right leg was shorter and weaker from birth, the right lower leg was replaced by a prosthesis so that he had to ride a motorcycle-like accelerator cable .

He mastered this handicap so well that Colin Chapman provided him with a Lotus . At the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps in 1960 , in which two drivers, Stirling Moss and Michael Taylor, had already been seriously injured and Chris Bristow had already had a fatal accident, he was killed at the wheel of his Lotus 18 when a bird hit the visor of his helmet penetrated at high speed .

With two dead and two seriously injured drivers, this was one of the most tragic Formula 1 racing weekends.

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1958	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Climax 2.2 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1959	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Climax 2.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1960	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Climax 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
		Lotus 18		3	-	-	-	-	-
total				7th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1958
							DNF
1959
					8th				DNF
1960
	DNF	DNF		DNF	DNF

Legend
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	WD	withdrawn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
	()	Streak results
	underlined	Leader in the overall standings

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1958	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus 11	Tom Dickson	not classified
1959	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus Mk17	Keith Greene	failure	overheated cylinder

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1957	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
								DNF
1958	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							DNF	17th
1959	lotus	Lotus 17 lotus 15	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						DNF	DNF
1960	Team elite	Lotus Elite	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						20th

See also

• List of fatally injured Formula 1 drivers

Web links

Commons : Alan Stacey  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• http://www.gpracing.net192.com/drivers/careers/550.cfm ( Memento from October 28, 2007 in the Internet Archive )