Bruce Halford

Bruce Halford

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1956 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1956 and 1957  Bruce Halford 1959 John Fisher 1960 Yeoman Credit Racing Team
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 8th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Bruce Halford (born May 18, 1931 Hampton-in-Arden , † December 2, 2001 in Churston Ferrers ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Without much racing experience, Halford only contested a few Formula Junior races on a Cooper - Bristol , the Briton made his Formula 1 World Championship debut at his home race at Silverstone in 1956 . The Maserati 250F , with which he retired in the race after an engine failure, was once driven by the Thai Prince Bira . With the Maserati Halford also drove in 1957 and 1958 seater -race before it the aged formula car into a Lister - Jaguar exchanged to go with this national sports car racing in the UK. He also competed several times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans .

In 1959, Halford returned to single-seat racing cars and came third in the Silver City Trophy in Snetterton on a factory BRM . Despite eight starts he did not find a permanent place in Formula 1, and so he ended his active career in the mid-1960s.

When racing for historic racing cars became popular in the late 1970s, Halford returned to racing with his private Lotus 16 and was a welcome guest at these events until a few years before his death in 2001.

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	Bruce Halford	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1957	Bruce Halford	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1959	John Fisher	Lotus 16	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1960	Yeoman Credit Racing Team	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				8th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1956
						DNF	DSQ	DNF
1957
						11	DNF	DNF
1959
	DNF
1960
		DNQ				8th

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
1957	Automobiles Talbot	Talbot-Lago Sport 2500	Franco Bordini	failure	Gearbox damage
1958	Bruce Halford	Lister	Brian Naylor	Rank 15
1959	Brian Lister	Lister LM	Ivor Bueb	failure	Engine failure
1960	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ron Flockhart	failure	drive shaft
1961	Ecurie Ecosse	Cooper T57 Monaco Mk.II	Tom Dickson	failure	accident

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1957	Talbot	Talbot-Lago Sport 2500	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
							DNF
1958	Bruce Halford Lister	Lister	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							15th	DNF
1959	Brian Lister Dorchester Service Station	Lister LM Lotus 15	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						DNF	DNF
1960	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
							DNF
1961	Ecurie Ecosse	Cooper T57	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					DNF	DNF

literature

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

Web links

• Bruce Halford at Racing Sports Cars