Fred Wacker

Fred Wacker

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1953 Belgian Grand Prix
Last start:	1954 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1953-1954  Gordini
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Frederick G. "Fred" Wacker junior (born July 10, 1918 in Chicago , † July 16, 1998 in Lake Bluff ) was an American racing driver .

Career

Fred Wacker was a regular starter in the US SCCA series when he came to Le Mans with Briggs Cunningham in 1951 . Together with George Rand he drove a Cunningham C2-R. The two dropped out after an accident after just 98 laps.

In 1952, Wacker triggered a fatal accident in Watkins Glen . On the old street circuit he came off the track in the second lap due to an inattention and raced into the crowd. A child was killed and the road races on the old Watkins Glen track came to an end.

1953 Wacker was works driver at Gordini and gave the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps his debut in the Drivers' Championship. The American drove his first Formula 1 Grand Prix in Switzerland in 1954 (in 1953, the races for the World Championship were held with Formula 2 vehicles ). He was three times in world championship races at the start, but could not score any points.

After the two years in Europe, Wacker went back to the USA and drove car races there until the mid-1960s.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1953	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.0 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1954	Equipe Gordini	Gordini T16	Gordini 2.5 L6	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1953
			DNS	9				DNS
1954
							DNF	6th	DNA

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	WD	withdrawn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

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1951	Briggs Cunningham	Cunningham C2-R	George Rand	failure	accident
1953	Rees T. Makins	Osca MT4 1300	Phil Hill	failure	Power transmission

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Rees T. Makins	Osca MT4	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
					DNF

Web links

Commons : Fred Wacker  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• File: Wreck of the Cunningham C2-R from Wacker / Rand after the accident at Le Mans in 1951