Colin Davis (racing driver)

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Colin Davis
The Porsche 906 long tail of Jo Siffert and Colin Davis at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1966
Nation: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start: 1959 French Grand Prix
Last start: 1959 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1959 Scuderia Centro Sud
statistics
World Cup balance: no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR
2 - - -
World Cup points : -
Podiums : -
Leadership laps : -
Template: Info box Formula 1 driver / maintenance / old parameters

Colin Charles Houghton Davis (born July 29, 1933 in Marylebone , London , † December 19, 2012 in Oranjezicht , Cape Town ) was a British racing driver .

Career

The son of the legendary Bentley Boy and winner of Le Mans Sammy Davis (who later became sports editor of Autocar magazine) Colin Davis was temporarily an advertising agent who drove in a 500cc Formula 3 cooperative race before heading to Italy , from where he started his own racing career. He took part in two automobile world championship Grand Prix and reached the Grand Prix of Italy in a Cooper - Maserati of the Scuderia Centro Sud the 11th place. He also took part in various Grand Prix outside of the automobile world championship.

Davis shared the victorious Porsche 904 GTS at the 1964 Targa Florio with Antonio Pucci .

Between 1958 and 1966, Colin Davis competed seven times in the Le Mans 24-hour race. On his debut in 1958, he and Alejandro de Tomaso reached eleventh place in the overall standings.

He achieved his best placement in Le Mans in 1966 in a works Porsche 906. With partner Jo Siffert , he finished fourth overall.

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season team chassis engine run Victories Second Third Poles nice
Race laps
Points WM-Pos.
1959 Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper T51 Maserati 2.5 L4 2 - - - - - - NC
total 2 - - - - - -

Single results

season 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9
1959 Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of the United States (1912-1959) .svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Portugal.svg Flag of Italy.svg US flag 49 stars.svg
DNF 11
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 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA OSCA Sport 750TN ArgentinaArgentina Alejandro de Tomaso 11th place and class win
1959 ArgentinaArgentina Alejandro de Tomaso DB HBR5 ArgentinaArgentina Alejandro de Tomaso failure Gearbox damage
1961 ItalyItaly Automobili OSCA OSCA Sport 750 FranceFrance Jean Laroche failure cooler
1962 ItalyItaly Scuderia SSS Repubblica di Venezia Ferrari 250 GT SWB breadvan ItalyItaly Carlo-Maria Abate failure Gearbox damage
1964 GermanyGermany Porsche System Engineering Porsche 904/8 GermanyGermany Gerhard Mitter failure Clutch damage
1965 GermanyGermany Porsche System Engineering Porsche 904/8 GermanyGermany Gerhard Mitter failure Clutch damage
1966 GermanyGermany Porsche System Engineering Porsche 906 / 6L Carrera 6 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Joseph Siffert 4th place and class win

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1962 ItalyItaly Scuderia SSS Republica di Venezia Ferrari 250 GT FranceFrance Fernand Tavano failure Engine failure

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 16 17th 18th 19th 20th
1954 Gilby Engineering Maserati A6GCS ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF
1958 Osca Osca MT4
Osca Sport 750TN
ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT
DNF 11
1959 Scuderia Sant Ambroeus
Alejandro de Tomaso
Alfa Romeo Giulietta Sprint
Osca FS1500
DB HBR5
United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT
6th DNF DNF
1960 Scuderia Serenissima Cooper T49
Ferrari 250 GT
ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM
DNF 8th
1961 Osca
Scuderia Serenissima
Osca 1500S
Ferrari 250 GT
OSCA Sport 750
Osca S1600
United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly PES
DNF 4th DNF 5
1962 Scuderia Serenissima Ferrari 250 GT
Maserati Tipo 64
Ferrari 250 GT SWB Breadvan
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MAY ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany BER GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance TAV ItalyItaly CCA United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT GermanyGermany ONLY United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI FranceFrance PAR
DNF DNF DNF 3
1964 Porsche Porsche 904 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly TAR ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly CON GermanyGermany ONLY GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance REI GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MON FranceFrance TDF United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI FranceFrance PAR
1 DNF DNF DNF 3
1965 Porsche Porsche 904 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly BOL ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly MON United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly MUG GermanyGermany ROS FranceFrance LEM FranceFrance REI ItalyItaly BOZ GermanyGermany FRE ItalyItaly CCE SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY United StatesUnited States BRI United StatesUnited States BRI
2 9 DNF
1966 Porsche Porsche 906 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly CCE GermanyGermany HOK SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL
7th 42 4th
1967 Mike de Udy
Porsche
Autodelta
Porsche 906
Porsche 910
Alfa Romeo T33
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM GermanyGermany HOK ItalyItaly MUG United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly CCE AustriaAustria ZEL SwitzerlandSwitzerland OVI GermanyGermany ONLY
DNF DNF DNF

Web links

Commons : Colin Davis  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. RIP 1964 Targa Florio winner Colin Davis