Dennis Poore
Nation: | United Kingdom | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1952 British Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1952 Italian Grand Prix | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1952 Connaught | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | WM-13. ( 1952 ) | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | 3 | ||||||||
Podiums : | - | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | - |
Dennis Poore (born August 19, 1916 , in London ; † February 12, 1987 there ) was a British racing car driver .
Career
The factory owner got involved in racing in 1947 by purchasing an Alfa Romeo . He used this successfully in mountain races and, more rarely, in circuit races. In 1950 he became a British mountain champion. In 1952, his paths crossed with the Connaught team, with whom he, after all, a fourth in the Grand Prix of Great Britain in 1952 on a Connaught Type A reached. Later he started mainly in endurance races, including the 24 Hours of Le Mans , and celebrated another victory at Goodwood in 1955 in an Aston Martin .
Although he never drove motorcycle races in his racing career, after retiring from racing in 1956, he became head of a motorcycle company that produced the brands AJS and Norton-Villiers , among others .
Dennis Poore died in 1987 at the age of 70.
statistics
Statistics in the automobile world championship
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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1952 | Connaught Engineering | Connaught Type A | Lea-Francis 2.0 L4 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 | 13. |
total | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 3 |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th |
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1952 | ||||||||
4th | 12 |
Legend | ||
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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WD | withdrawn | |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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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1952 | Aston Martin Ltd. | Aston Martin DB3 Spyder | Pat Griffith | failure | water pump |
1953 | Aston Martin Ltd. | Aston Martin DB3S | Eric Thompson | failure | Engine failure |
1954 | David Brown | Lagonda DP115 | Eric Thompson | failure | accident |
1955 | Aston Martin Lagonda Ltd. | Lagonda DP166 | Reginald Parnell | failure | no petrol |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th |
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1953 | Aston Martin | Aston Martin DB3S | SEB | MIM | LEM | SPA | ONLY | RTT | CAP |
DNF | DNF | ||||||||
1954 | Aston Martin |
Lagonda DP115 Aston Martin DB3S |
BUA | SEB | MIM | LEM | RTT | CAP | |
DNF | 8th | ||||||||
1955 | Aston Martin |
Lagonda DP166 Aston Martin DB3S |
BUA | SEB | MIM | LEM | RTT | TAR | |
DNF | 4th |
literature
- RM Clarke: Le Mans. The Jaguar Years 1949-1957. Brooklands Books, Cobham 1997, ISBN 1-85520-357-X .
- Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909413-06-3 .
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Poore, Dennis |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 19, 1916 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |
DATE OF DEATH | February 12, 1987 |
Place of death | London |