George Eaton
Nation: | Canada | ||||||||
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First start: | 1969 USA Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1971 Canadian Grand Prix | ||||||||
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1969–1971 BRM | |||||||||
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World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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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 |
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1971 | North American Racing Team | Ferrari 512S Spyder | Masts Gregory | failure | Gasoline system |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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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 |
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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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eaton, George |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | November 12, 1945 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto |