Digby Martland

The Lola T70 competed with the Digby Martland 1969 sports car race

Digby Martland (born November 9, 1942 ) is a retired British racing car driver .

Career

Digby Martland celebrated success as a sports car driver in the second half of the 1960s . The name Martland is closely connected with racing vehicles from Chevron , with which it almost exclusively competed. Between 1965 and 1970 he achieved seven overall and five class wins.

He secured his first win in 1966 on a Chevron B3 at a national race at Oulton Park , the last on the same circuit in 1967 on a B6 . In between he played both national and international events.

He competed in the Daytona 24-hour race , in Le Mans and in almost all of the major European endurance races of the 1960s.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1968	John Woolfe Racing	Chevron B12	John Woolfe	failure	Overheated cylinder
1970	Paul Watson Racing Organization	Chevron B16	Clive Baker	failure	Spring break

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
1967	Robert Ashcroft	Chevron B6	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
								9				15th
1968	Chevron Cars	Chevron B6 Chevron B8 Chevron B12	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			DNF		8th							DNF
1969	PS McNally	Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					12
1970	Digby Martland	Chevron B16	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					DNF					DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Digby Martland  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Digby Martland at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. Jump up ↑ 1966 Oulton Park sports car race