Harry Blanchard
Nation: | United States | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1959 USA Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1959 USA Grand Prix | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1959 Blanchard Automobile Company | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | - | ||||||||
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Harold "Harry" Blanchard (born June 30, 1931 in Burlington , † January 31, 1960 in Buenos Aires ) was an American racing car driver .
Career
Harry Blanchard's only appearance at a world championship race in the automobile world championship came about by chance. In 1959 he was invited by the organizer of the Grand Prix of the USA to take part in the race in Sebring with his private Porsche RSK in order to fill the field. In the race he was then seventh, four laps behind the winner Bruce McLaren .
Blanchard competed regularly in sports car races in the USA in the 1950s and was often able to enter the list of winners as a class winner. He had a fatal accident in 1960 at the 1000 km race in Buenos Aires after a rollover.
statistics
Statistics in Formula 1
general overview
season | team | chassis | engine | run | Victories | Second | Third | Poles | nice Race laps |
Points | WM-Pos. |
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1959 | Blanchard Automobile Co. | Porsche 718 RSK | Porsche 1.5 F4 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | NC |
total | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 |
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1959 | |||||||||
7th |
Legend | ||
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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WD | withdrawn | |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 |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1959 | Harry Blanchard | Lancia Appia Zagato | Skip Callahan | Rank 35 |
Individual results in the sports car world championship
season | team | race car | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 |
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1959 | Harry Blanchard | Lancia Appia | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM | RTT |
35 | |||||||
1960 | Wolfgang Seidel | Porsche 718 | BUA | SEB | TAR | ONLY | LEM |
DNF |
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who, 3rd Edition . Travel Publishing, London 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Blanchard, Harry |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Blanchard, Harold |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 30, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Burlington |
DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1960 |
Place of death | Buenos Aires |