George Eaton

George Eaton

Nation:	Canada
Automobile world championship
First start:	1969 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1971 Canadian Grand Prix
Constructors
1969–1971 BRM
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 11 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

George Eaton (born November 12, 1945 in Toronto ) is a retired Canadian racing car driver .

Career

George Eaton was born into the wealthy Canadian entrepreneurial family Eaton’s . After the end of his racing career, Eaton was CEO of the family's department store chain for ten years.

Eaton contested his first races on a McLaren M1C and an AC Cobra . In 1967 he got into the North American CanAm racing series . His best result was third in the rainy race in Laguna Seca .

In the late 1960s, Eaton acquired two new racing cars, a McLaren M12 for the CanAm series and a McLaren M10 , a monoposto that he used in Formula A. His strong performances brought him into Formula 1 . At the end of 1969 , Eaton drove the US and Mexico Grand Prix for BRM

In 1970 the Canadian got a works contract with BRM and drove for the British team in both Formula 1 and the CanAm series with the new BRM P54 . The year was completely disappointing. The P54 was not fully developed and with the BRM P153 it could not achieve a world championship point in the Formula 1 World Championship.

Eaton drove the Canadian Grand Prix for BRM in 1971 , and then his Formula 1 career was over. Sports car races followed; for Ferrari he drove at Le Mans and Sebring . But Eaton did not have any major successes in motorsport and so he left the racing scene at the end of 1972 and took on tasks in the family company.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1971	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 512S Spyder	Masts Gregory	failure	Gasoline system

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1971	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 312 P / 71	Luigi Chinetti junior	Rank 8

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	Craig Fisher	Chevrolet Camaro	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
			DNF
1970	Randy's Auto Body Service	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			DNF
1971	NART Herbert Mueller	Ferrari 312P Ferrari 512S	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
					8th						DNF		DNF
1972	NART	Ferrari 312P	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
				DNF

literature

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

Web links

Commons : George Eaton  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

• Image: George Eaton
• George Eaton at Racing Sports Cars