Archie Scott-Brown

Archie Scott-Brown

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1956 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1956 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1956  Connaught Engineering
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

William Archibald "Archie" Scott-Brown (born May 13, 1927 in Paisley , † May 19, 1958 in Heusy , Belgium ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Archie Scott-Brown had a fatal accident in one of these Lister Jaguars in 1958

Archie Scott-Brown had a very difficult childhood. His mother contracted measles during pregnancy and Scott-Brown was born with severe deformities in his right hand and both legs and feet. The result was martyrdom for the baby and the young boy. He had to endure no fewer than 22 operations in the 1930s. Scott-Brown never lost his courage to face life. On the contrary; he went to the British merchant navy and spent the Second World War as a seaman .

Scott-Brown came to racing in 1950. First he took part in small racing events with an MG TD. This would last until 1954, when his career gained momentum. He met Brian Lister and they forged a perfect partnership. Lister built the racing cars and Scott-Brown drove them. In 1955 he won one sports car race after another with the Lister - Bristol across the country . The successes were so evident that the Connaught team management offered him a works car for the 1956 British Grand Prix . Even during training, the Scot astonished the experts when he put the Connaught Type B in tenth training rank. In the race he was about to get to the top when he lost a wheel after a broken axle and had to give up the race. When he finished second in the International Trophy , the specialist press raved about a new British world-class driver. Juan Manuel Fangio spoke in an interview about Scott-Brown's phenomenal vehicle control.

In 1957 he was supposed to start again at the British Grand Prix for BRM , but after a few test drives he turned down the offer and stayed with Lister to continue racing.

Despite all the successes on the island, he did not get an international license and could not race in continental Europe for the time being. Scott-Brown evaded to New Zealand and promptly won the Wigan Trophy . When he finally got his license, the first important race ended in a fatal accident. In a sports car race in Spa-Francorchamps , he lost control of his Lister Jaguar in a duel with Masten Gregory . The car rolled over into a field and went up in flames. Scott-Brown died of serious injuries a day later.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1956	Connaught Engineering	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1956
						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

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1956	Donald Healey Motor Company	Austin-Healey 100S	Lance Macklin	failure	starter
1958	Alfred Momo	Lister	Walt Hansgen	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1956	Donald Healey Motor Company	Austin-Healey 100S	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
				DNF
1957	Murkett Brothers Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						DNF		8th
1958	Alfred Momo	Lister	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

• Archie Scott-Brown at Racing Sports Cars