Brian Naylor

Brian Naylor

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1957 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1961 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1957 and 1957  Brian Naylor 1959, 1960 and 1961 Brian Naylor
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

John Brian Naylor (born March 24, 1923 in Salford , † August 8, 1989 in Marbella ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Brian Naylor was a car dealer prior to World War II and was honored for bravery several times during the war he fought as an intelligence officer .

After the war, Naylor began motorsport in the 1950s. In 1957 he borrowed a Cooper T43 and competed in the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring . At the end of the race he crossed the finish line in 13th place and finished second in this class with the little Formula 2 Cooper .

At the end of the 1950s, Naylor began developing his own racing vehicles, which he launched under the name JBW . In addition to sports cars, Naylor also built Formula 1 racing cars that were powered by a Maserati four-cylinder engine. The car made its debut at the 1959 British Grand Prix . Naylor was never really successful with his self-built vehicles in the world championship, only in Formula Libre races there were some good results.

After a long illness, Naylor had to give up racing in 1961 and died in Marbella in 1989.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1957	JB Naylor	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1958	JB Naylor	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1959	JB Naylor	JBW Type 59	Maserati 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1960	JB Naylor	JBW Type 59	Maserati 2.5 L4	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1961	JB Naylor	JBW Type 61	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				7th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1957
						13
1958
								DNF
1959
					DNF
1960
		DNQ					13		DNF	DNF
1961
				WD			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	WD	withdrawn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	Bruce Halford	Lister	Bruce Halford	Rank 15
1959	Graham Whitehead	Aston Martin DBR1 / 300	Graham Whitehead	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1954	Brian Naylor	Cooper T29	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
							DNF
1958	Bruce Halford	Lister	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							15th
1959	Graham Whitehead	Aston Martin DBR1	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF	DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Brian Naylor  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Brian Naylor at Racing Sports Cars