Chris Bristow
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| First start: | 1959 British Grand Prix | ||||||||
| Last start: | 1960 Belgian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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| 1959 British Racing Partnership 1960 Yeoman Credit Racing Team | |||||||||
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| World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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Christopher "Chris" William Bristow (born December 2, 1937 in London , † June 19, 1960 in Spa-Francorchamps , Belgium ) was an English racing driver.
Career
The talented Brit, who hails from south London, was considered by many British racing journalists as a potential Formula 1 world champion because of a career similar to that of Stirling Moss or Tony Brooks . Because of his untimely death, he was unable to confirm these speculations.
With financial support from his father, he began his motorsport career in 1956 . He was soon winning races like the one with an MG at the Crystal Palace circuit in his hometown. The following year he drove a 1100cc Cooper to gain experience in other races in the British Isles.
In 1958 he moved to Elva , where he attracted the attention of the British Racing Partnership with the difficult-to-drive car . Rapidly to joining BRP to the Formula 2 to control -Cooper derived from a Borgward - motor were driven.
At the John Day Trophy in 1959, he managed to dominate a select field of drivers and celebrate a convincing victory: Jack Brabham , Roy Salvadori and Bruce McLaren could not pose a threat to him on that day, so that despite his age of 22 years he was already in the same Year debuted in the 1959 Formula 1 season at his home grand prix.
The 1960 racing season got off to a bad start for the BRP team when the experienced number 1 driver Harry Schell had a fatal accident while training for the International Trophy . With that, Bristow advanced to the status of the first pilot. During the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa, he was fighting for third place with the Ferrari driven by Willy Mairesse in the treacherously sloping Burnenville right-hand bend on lap 20, when he lost control of his Cooper and the car came under a track barrier. His head was torn off on impact. He was the first person to be killed in addition to two seriously injured people before Alan Stacey's death on what was probably the worst racing weekend in Formula 1 history to date. Bristow had ignored the warnings from his experienced colleagues not to mess with Mairesse, who is known as a crash pilot. For the eventual world champion Jim Clark , this Belgian GP was the second Formula 1 race; he later said of Bristow's accident: “It was terrible. I thought about stopping at the pits and putting an end to racing. "
statistics
Statistics in Formula 1
general overview
| season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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| 1959 | British Racing Partnership | Cooper T51 | Borgward 1.5 L4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| 1960 | Yeoman Credit Racing Team | Cooper T51 | Climax 2.5 L4 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
| total | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | ||||
Single results
| season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 |
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| 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 |
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| underlined | Leader in the overall standings | |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
| season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 |
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| 1959 | Porsche | Porsche 718 |
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See also
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ quoted from Willy Knupp (ed.): Kampf am Limit. The Formula 1 Chronicle. 1950-2000. Düsseldorf 2000, p. 85.
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bristow, Chris |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bristow, Christopher William (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | English Formula 1 racing driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 2, 1937 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 19, 1960 |
| Place of death | Spa-Francorchamps , Belgium |