George Huntoon

George Huntoon († January 18, 1992 ) was an American racing car driver .

Racing career

George Huntoon raced sports cars in the late 1940s and 1950s . He celebrated his first victory in an Alfa Romeo 8C at the Bridgehampton 100 mile race in 1949 . He celebrated further victories at a race in Palm Beach and an SCCA championship run at Turner Air Force Base in Albany in 1952.

His greatest international success was third overall with Lance Macklin in the Austin-Healey 100 at the 1954 Sebring 12-hour race . In 1952 he came to Le Mans with Briggs Cunningham and drove a Cunningham C2-R there . The race ended prematurely after an accident.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1951	Briggs Cunningham	Cunningham C2-R	Briggs Cunningham	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1952	Briggs Cunningham	Siata 300BC	Phil Stiles	failure	malfunction
1953	Jack Shepperd	Jaguar C-Type	Phil Stiles	Rank 26
1954	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin-Healey 100	Lance Macklin	3rd place and class win
1955	BS Cunningham	Osca MT4 1450	Bill Lloyd	Rank 7 and class win
1956	Ship & Share Motors	Austin Healey 100S	Phil Stiles	Rank 11

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Jack Shepperd	Jaguar C-Type	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
			26th
1954	Donald Healey Motor Company	Austin-Healey 100	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
				3
1955	Briggs Cunningham	Osca MT4	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
				7th
1956	Ship & Share Motors	Austin-Healey 100S	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
				11

Web links

• George Huntoon at the Driver Database
• George Huntoon at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ Bridgehampton 100 Mile Race, 1949
2. ^ SCCA-Turner 1952