Herbert MacKay-Fraser

Herbert MacKay-Fraser

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1957 French Grand Prix
Last start:	1957 French Grand Prix
Constructors
1957  BRM
statistics
World Cup balance:	-
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Herbert MacKay-Fraser (born June 23, 1927 in the province of Pernambuco , Brazil according to other information in Connecticut , † July 14, 1957 in Reims , France ) was an American racing driver.

Career

The son of a wealthy American owner of a Brazilian coffee - plantation he was one of many financially independent US boys that are in since the early 1950s, European Motorsport operated.

MacKay-Fraser made his first experiences on the continent at the wheel of his own Ferrari Monza during the sports car race in 1955. In the following years he made his big car control on the Voilant the lightweight Lotus - sports car Colin Chapman from 1956 to 1957 to the test.

As BRM already after the third race of the Formula 1 season in 1957 by the departure Roy Salvadoris to Vanwall had a free cockpit, Herbert was in Rouen-les-Essarts on the recommendation Chapmans his first shot at a real Formula 1 - seater . Already 12th place on the grid was a clean achievement for a rookie , but his lightning start brought him to a surprising sixth place during the first lap of the long course. There he fought with much more highly rated drivers like Harry Schell and Peter Collins on an equal footing. But already after a third of the race distance, his car was hit by a mechanical defect. A drive shaft sheared off, so MacKay-Fraser had to give up. Since his teammate Ron Flockhart also survived a sensational high-speed crash with a lot of luck, BRM once again started one of its typical "pauses for thought".

After this promising debut , many experts expected great achievements from the American. But only a few days later he had a fatal accident at the wheel of a lightweight Lotus Eleven in a Formula 2 anniversary race on the Circuit de Reims-Gueux .

The driver, popular thanks to his big smile and impartial demeanor, was the fourth Formula 1 driver in 1957 to have a fatal accident.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1957	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1957
				DNF

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
1956	Lotus engineering	Lotus Eleven	Colin Chapman	failure	drive shaft
1957	Lotus engineering	Lotus Eleven	Jay Chamberlain	9th place and class win

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1956	Joakim Bonnier Robert Tappan	Alfa Romeo Giulietta SV Ferrari 500TR	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
						11	9
1957	Dan Margulie's Lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						DNF	9

Web links

• American pilots in the European motorsport scene in the 1950s
• Herbert MacKay-Fraser at Racing Sports Cars