Hugh Caulfield Hamilton

Hugh Caulfield Hamilton , called Hammy (born July 18, 1905 in Omagh , † August 26, 1934 in Bern ), was a Northern Irish racing driver .

Career

After his father's early death, his mother married a second time and the family moved to England in 1922 . Hamilton became a car salesman at University Motors , where he sold MGs . He started with motorcycle racing . In 1930 he won his first three races at the Easter Brooklands Meeting on a Riley . In 1933 he became a works driver at MG and competed in the Miglia Mille , where he and Earl Howe finished 21st in the overall standings and second in the racing class for sports cars up to 1.1 liter displacement.

After further success in the British Isles, he drove his first Grand Prix on a Maserati in 1934 at the Autodromo della Mellaha in Tripoli . In the same year, at the Swiss Grand Prix in Bremgarten, he got off the road with his Maserati 8CM and hit a tree. The autopsy showed that he had previously died of heart failure . Hamilton is buried in the Bremgarten cemetery in Bern . As with Irish crosses, his grave cross is surrounded by a ring; Cynics claim that the ring means the steering wheel of Hamilton's racing car.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Mille Miglia 1933