Eric Brandon

Eric Brandon

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1952 Swiss Grand Prix
Last start:	1954 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1952  Ecurie Richmond
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Eric Brandon (born July 18, 1920 in East Ham , † August 8, 1982 in Gosport ) was an English racing driver .

Career

Eric Brandon was a childhood friend of Cooper founder John Cooper . Not surprisingly, Brandon drove his first races with the small and few 500 cc Formula 3 cooperators. In 1951, Brandon was one of the best drivers in this class in Great Britain. In 1951 he was the first to win the British Formula 3 Championship .

When Alan Brown began to build his Ecurie Richmond in 1952 to take part in the 1952 World Cup, he brought Brandon into his team. The world championship was driven according to the Formula 2 regulations and Ecurie Richmond used Cooper racing cars with Bristol engines. Brandon made his debut in the World Championship in 1952 at the Swiss Grand Prix . Eighth place in this race remained the best place he achieved in the world championship in five starts. In 1953 he finished fourth in the Gran Premio di Siracusa , then switched to sports cars and competed in national races until the end of the 1950s.

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	Ecurie Richmond	Cooper T20	Bristol 2.0 L6	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1954	Ecurie Richmond	Cooper T23	Bristol 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1952
	8th		9		20th			13
1954
					DNF

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	WD	withdrawn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

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Eric Brandon at Racing Sports Cars