Bruce Johnstone

Bruce Johnstone

Nation:	South Africa
Automobile world championship
First start:	1962 Grand Prix of South Africa
Last start:	1962 Grand Prix of South Africa
Constructors
1962  Owen Racing Organization
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Bruce Johnstone (born January 30, 1937 in Durban ) is a former South African racing driver .

Career

Bruce Johnstone drove touring car races on a Volvo in the late 1950s and switched to monoposti in 1960 . In South Africa he became a well-known racing driver when he finished sixth in the Formula Libre South African Grand Prix . The Belgian Grand Prix driver Paul Frère won the race . In 1961 he reached second place overall behind Syd van der Vyver in the South African Formula Championship . This success brought him a contract for the Yeoman Credit Racing Team of Reg Parnell one. The partnership was not a good star. Johnstone had an accident both at the Natal Grand Prix and during training for the South African Grand Prix .

In 1962 Johnstone came to Europe. Together with Peter Ashdown, he won the 1.5-liter class in a Lotus 23 at the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring . He drove a works BRM at the Gold Cup in Oulton Park and at the end of the year finished ninth in the South African Grand Prix with the BRM P48 .

Although Johnstone was a talented driver, he won the Kyalami 9 Hours with David Piper in a Ferrari 250 GTO in December 1962, and retired in the spring of 1963.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1962	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P48 / 57	BRM 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1962
									9

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	WD	withdrawn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

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
1962	Ian Walker	Lotus 23	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									8th

literature

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

Web links

• Bruce Johnstone at Racing Sports Cars