David prophet

David prophet

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1963 South African Grand Prix
Last start:	1965 South African Grand Prix
Constructors
1963 and 1965  David Prophet Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

David Prophet (born October 9, 1937 Hong Kong , † March 29, 1981 near Silverstone ) was a British racing car driver .

Career

David Prophet raced cars for a decade. He had already earned his first spurs in Formula Junior when he took part in the Formula 1 Grand Prix in South Africa in 1963 with his Brabham BT6 . Prophet dropped out prematurely after persistent problems with oil pressure. Around the same time he also took part in the Rand Grand Prix , which he finished in sixth, and the Grand Prix of Rhodesia , where he drove his Brabham to second place.

Between 1964 and 1967 he competed regularly in Formula 2 races, albeit with modest success. He was more successful in the sports car. He drove a Lotus 30 , Ford GT40 and Lola T70 in national sports car races in the UK and selected events in the World Sports Car Championship .

In 1970 he contested a complete Formula 5000 season with a McLaren M10 B. In 1971 he retired from racing. He had a fatal accident ten years later: the helicopter with which Prophet left the Silverstone race track after an event crashed shortly after take-off.

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.
1963	David prophet	Brabham BT6	Ford 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1965	David Prophet Racing	Brabham BT10	Ford 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1963
										DNF
1965
	14th

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	WD	withdrawn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	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1965	David Prophet Racing William Bradley	Lotus 30 Triumph Spitfire	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
								9			DNF
1967	David prophet	Ferrari 250LM	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
												18th
1968	David prophet	Ford GT40	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					DNF			DNF	8th
1969	David Prophet Paul Hawkins	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					DNF			8th	DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Web links

• David Prophet at Racing Sports Cars