Ian Burgess

Ian Burgess

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1958 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1963 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1958  Cooper Cars - High Efficiency Motors 1959 Scuderia Centro Sud 1960 Scuderia Centro Sud 1961 Camoradi Racing 1962 Anglo-American Equipe 1963 Scirocco Powell Racing Cars
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 16 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ian Burgess (born July 6, 1930 in London , † May 19, 2012 in London ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Ian Burgess caused some excitement in motorsport in 1951 when, completely surprisingly, he won the class up to 500 cc in the Eifel race at the Nürburgring . In the pouring rain, the then unknown Burgess left established drivers like Ken Wharton and Peter Whitehead behind. However, he could not build on this success and the next few years were without further success.

The tide didn't turn until Burgess started working for Cooper in the mid-1950s . He became an instructor at the Cooper Racing Driver School at Brands Hatch and drove the Formula 2 Cooperative test drives .

In 1957 he stepped up his racing activities and finished fourth in the Gold Cup at Oulton Park . In 1958 he drove a full Formula 2 season for the British Atkins team. Victories in Crystal Palace and Snetterton followed fourth places in Montlhéry and Reims . However, a serious accident at the AVUS in Berlin ended the season prematurely.

In 1959 he was back on the race track and drove for the Scuderia Centro Sud in Formula 1 . Burgess had already made his debut in the highest single posto class the year before. At the Grand Prix of Great Britain , he went with a plant - Cooper T45 at the start, but retired with a broken clutch out. The Scuderia Centro Sud also used a Cooper. However, their T51 was not powered by a Climax unit , but by a Maserati engine. The best placement of the year was the sixth place at the German Grand Prix at AVUS. There were no World Championship points for this placement, only the first five received points for the World Championship ranking.

In 1960 , Burgess was also involved with the Italian racing team in Formula 1 before he switched to Camoradi Racing in 1961 and drove their Lotus 18 . After a brief stint with the Anglo-American Equipe, Burgess contested the last two of his 16 world championship races in 1963 for the US Scirocco team. As in the 14 races before that, Burgess remained without World Championship points in his last Formula 1 appearances.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1958	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T45	Climax 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	High efficiency motors	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-
1959	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1960	Scuderia Centro Sud	Cooper T51	Maserati 2.5 L4	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1961	Camoradi International	Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
		Cooper T53	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-
1962	Anglo-American Equipe	Cooper T53 Special	Climax 1.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1963	Scirocco Powell	Scirocco 02	BRM 1.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				16	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1958
							DNF	7th
1959
				DNF	DNF	6th		14th
1960
		DNQ				10	DNF			DNF
1961
		DNS	DNS	14th	14th	12
1962
					12	11	DNQ
1963
					DNF	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

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1953	Kieft	Kieft	SEB	MIM	LEM	SPA	ONLY	RTT	CAP
								DNF
1954	Bob Said	Osca MT4	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
							DNF
1955	lotus	Lotus Mark VIII	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
							27
1958	Elva	Elva Mk.IV	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
								20th

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Death report on oldracingcars.com