Chuck Daigh

Chuck Daigh

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1960 Belgian Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 USA Grand Prix
Constructors
1960  Reventlow Automobiles Inc.  1960  Cooper
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Charles "Chuck" Daigh (* 29. November 1923 in Long Beach , California ; † 29. April 2008 in Newport Beach , California) was an American racing driver , who is also several times in the automotive world championship started. In some races of the USAC Stock Car Series Daigh took part under the pseudonym "Charles George".

Career

In the season 1960 he played as number 1 driver and chief mechanic first four Grand Prix for the team Scarab of Lance Reventlow , although he ultimately only one race, the Belgian Grand Prix went to the start. However, he dropped out there during the race. The Grand Prix of Great Britain denied Daigh for the team Cooper , but he also fell here during the race. For the final race of the season, the US Grand Prix , he returned to Scarab one more time, finishing in tenth place. Daigh scored no championship points in his short automobile world championship career.

His greatest achievement was overall victory in the Sebring 12-hour race in 1959 .

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Reventlow Automobiles Inc.	Scarab Type 1	Scarab 2.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1959
		DNQ
1960
	DNA	DNQ		DNS	DNF	DNS	DNF			10

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	WD	withdrawn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
1960	Camoradi Racing	Maserati Tipo 61 Birdcage	Masts Gregory	failure	Electrics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1955	Manfredo Lippmann	Ferrari 750 Monza	Sterling Edwards			failure	Engine failure
1959	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250TR59	Phil Hill	Olivier Gendebien	Dan Gurney	Overall victory
1960	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 250TR59 / 60	Richie Ginther			failure	Water and oil leak
1962	Chaparral Cars Inc.	Chaparral 1	Hap Sharp	Ronnie Hissom	Jim Hall	Rank 6 and class win

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
1953	Bob Estes	Lincoln Capri	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
									8th
1954	Lincoln	Lincoln Capri	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
								DNF
1955	Manfredo Lippmann	Ferrari 750 Monza	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
				DNF
1959	Scuderia Ferrari	Ferrari 250TR	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			1
1960	North American Racing Team Camoradi Racing	Ferrari 250TR Maserati Tipo 61	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				DNF			DNF
1962	Chaparral Cars	Chaparral 1	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
					6th

Web links

Commons : Chuck Daigh  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Chuck Daigh obituary of historicracing.com (Engl.) ( Memento of 25 May 2008 at the Internet Archive )