Dick Irish

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A Siata 1400 GS like him Dick Irish at the 12-hour race at Sebring in 1952 went

Richard Harold "Dick" Irish (* 1930 ; † March 9, 2015 in Oklahoma City ) was an American racing car driver .

Racing career

Dick Irish, who served in the United States Army during the Korean War , was a successful racing driver in North America in the 1950s . Irish was well connected in American sports car racing and was close friends with sports car importer Tony Pompeo , BS Cunningham factory driver Sherwood Johnston and racing car maker Hal Ullrich . He was given a special honor when Enzo Ferrari invited him to Maranello to watch the production of the Ferrari 275 GTB he had ordered .

He achieved his first successes with a Kieft CK52 and a Siata 1400 Gran Sport, with which he was third overall in the 1952 Sebring 12-hour race . Several times he won the Brynfan Tyddyn hill climb , where a curve, the Irish Corner , had his last name. In the 1950s he started mainly in the SCCA championship and ended his driving career after the 2000 km race in Daytona in 1965 .

statistics

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1952 United States 48United States Robert Fergus Siata 1400 GS United States 48United States Robert Fergus Rank 3
1953 United States 48United States Brooks Stevens Excalibur J. United States 48United States Hal Ullrich Rank 33
1954 United States 48United States Brooks Stevens Excalibur J. United States 48United States Ralph Knudson failure Engine failure
1955 United States 48United States Isabelle Haskell Bandini United States 48United States Isabelle Haskell 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
1953 Brooks Stevens Excalibur J. United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
33
1954 Brooks Stevens Excalibur J. ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT MexicoMexico CAP
DNF
1955 Isabelle Haskell Bandini ArgentinaArgentina BUA United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MIM FranceFrance LEM United KingdomUnited Kingdom RTT ItalyItaly TAR
DNF
1965 Anatoly Arutunoff Lancia Flaminia 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
DNF

literature

  • Ken Breslauer: Sebring - The Official History of America's Great Sports Car Race David Bull, ISBN 0-9649722-0-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. About Hal Ullrich