Brian Lister

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Brian Lister ( July 12, 1926 - December 16, 2014 ) was a British racing car driver , racing car designer and entrepreneur.

Life

Brian Lister was active as a racing driver in the early 1950s before turning to racing car design. However, he only drove national sports car races in Great Britain. Worth mentioning are the two second places in the National Silverstone Handicap Motor Sport Trophy 1951, in the classes for sports cars up to 2 liters and 1.3 liters respectively.

After his active career, Lister not only became a racing car designer, but also founded his own company in 1954, Lister Cars . Together with Frank Costin , he developed a series of sports cars and monopostos that were used in international races in the 1950s. After the death of Archie Scott-Brown in a Lister racing car in a sports car race in Spa-Francorchamps in 1958, Lister ended his racing car production. In 1963 he designed - again together with Costin - his last Lister Coupé with a Jaguar engine, which was unsuccessfully used in the 24 Hours of Le Mans . After this construction work, Brian Lister retired into private life.

Lister had been married to Josephine Perst since 1951, with whom he had a daughter.

He died on December 16, 2014 at the age of 88.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Lister Cars - News - Brian Lister - 1926-2014 . Article on listercars.com from December 17, 2014 (accessed December 18, 2014).
  2. ^ RIP Brian Lister 1926-2014 . Article on classicandsportscar.com from December 17, 2014 (accessed December 17, 2014).
  3. ^ Brian Lister - obituary. In: The Daily Telegraph, December 17, 2014 (accessed December 18, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Lister, Brian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British racing car driver, racing car designer and entrepreneur
DATE OF BIRTH July 12, 1926
DATE OF DEATH December 16, 2014