Ernest Pieterse

Ernest Pieterse

Nation:	South Africa
Automobile world championship
First start:	1962 Grand Prix of South Africa
Last start:	1963 South African Grand Prix
Constructors
1962  Ernest Pieterse 1963 Lawson Organization
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ernest "Ernie" Pieterse (born July 4, 1938 in Parow ; † November 1, 2017 in Johannesburg ) was a South African racing car driver .

Career

Pieterse was one of the most successful touring car drivers on the South African saloon car scene in the late 1950s . In 1958 he finished third in an Alfa Romeo in the Rand 9 Hours . In 1961 he celebrated his first successes in the monoposto with victories in Kyalami and the Grand Prix of Rhodesia .

At the 1962 Grand Prix of South Africa , he made his debut in the World Motor Championship . With a private Lotus 21 , he finished tenth, 11 laps behind winner Graham Hill . In the same year he won the South African monoposto championship, in which he participated regularly until the end of 1964.

After he clearly missed qualifying for the home Grand Prix in 1965 ( he retired in 1963 with engine failure), he retired from racing.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1962	Ernest Pieterse	Lotus 21	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1963	Lawson organization	Lotus 21	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1962
									10
1963
										DNF
1965
	DNQ

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	WD	withdrawn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, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Ernest Pieterse. In: Motor Sport Magazine Database. Retrieved January 10, 2019 .