Don Beauman was a popular figure on the British national motorsport scene in the 1950s. He started in 1950 on a Cooper 500 and in 1953 drove a pre-war Riley TT all season in a team with his friend Mike Hawthorn in the British Sports Car Championship. Sponsored by Sir Jeremy Boles, Don Beauman drove a Connaught - Formula 2 in the British Formula 2 Championship in 1954 . He won two races at Brands Hatch and Oulton Park and in the same year was class winner in an Aston Martin at the sports car race in Zandvoort.
In the same year he drove his only Formula 1 Grand Prix. He started on July 17, 1954 on a Connaught Type A - Lea-Francis from position 17th in the Grand Prix of Great Britain at Silverstone and finished the race in eleventh place. In 1955, Beauman drove for the Jaguar factory team at Le Mans and was third in the Clover Trophy in Goodwood , again for Jaguar. Don Beauman had the talent for a career as a Grand Prix driver, but had a fatal accident at the 1955 Leinster Trophy .
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