Ian Harrower

Ian Harrower's ADA 02 in the Auto- und Technikmuseum Sinsheim

Ian Harrower (born January 14, 1947 in York ) is a former British car racing driver and racing team owner.

Racing career

Ian Harrower was a sports car driver for more than 25 years . The career began in 1972 in a race for the British Sports Car Championship in Snetterton . Harrower drove a Chevron B8 to eighth place overall (winner Guy Edwards on a Lola T90 ). His last assignment as a driver was at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1990 , where he drove an ADA 02B with partners Jerry Mahony and John Sheldon and had to give up after having driven 164 laps due to a damage to the suspension. In between there were 79 races with four podium finishes and three class wins.

His debut in Le Mans , he gave 1977 . By 1990 there were eight more outings, making Harrower one of the Le Mans starters who competed at least 10 times in this 24-hour race . The best place was the eighth final place and class win in 1986 .

In 1977 he took over ADA Engineering and competed for the team in the sports car world championship . He reached his podium placements in the Angolan sports car series . After a second place in the 6-hour race of New Lisbon in 1973 , he was third overall at this racing event a year later .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1977	Dorset Racing Associates	Lola T290 / 4S	Richard Down	Martin Birrane	Ernst Berg	not classified
1978	Dorset Racing Associates	Lola T294	Tony Birchenhough	Juliette Slaughter	Brian Joscelyn	failure	Engine failure
1982	Dorset Racing Associates	De Cadenet-Lola LM	François Duret	Mike Wilds		failure	no petrol
1983	François Duret	De Cadenet-Lola	François Duret	John Sheldon		not classified
1984	ADA engineering	ADA 01	Bob Wolff	Glen Smith		failure	Chassis broken
1985	ADA engineering	Gebhardt JC843	Steve Earle	John Sheldon		16th place and class win
1986	ADA engineering	Gebhardt JC843	Tom Dodd-Noble	Evan Clements		Rank 8 and class win
1987	Tiga Race Cars	Tiga GC287	Thorkild Thyrring	John Sheldon		Rank 10
1988	ADA engineering	ADA 03	Jiro Yoneyama	Hideo Fukuyama		Rank 18
1989	ADA engineering	ADA 02B	Laurence Bristow	Colin Pool		failure	Electrics
1990	ADA engineering	ADA 02B	Jerry Mahony	John Sheldon		failure	suspension

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Ian Harrower  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Ian Harrower at the Driver Database
• Ian Harrower at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ^ RAC Snetterton 1972