Dennis Poore

Dennis Poore

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1952 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1952 Connaught
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-13. ( 1952 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
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.
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
1952
					4th			12

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	WD	withdrawn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
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
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 .