Innes Ireland

Innes Ireland

Nation:	Great Britain
Automobile world championship
First start:	1959 Dutch Grand Prix
Last start:	1966 Mexican Grand Prix
Constructors
1959–1961 Lotus  • 1962 UDT Laystall Racing Team  • 1963–1964 BRP  • 1965 Parnell  • 1966 BWR
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup fourth ( 1960 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 50 1 - 1
World Cup points :	47
Podiums :	4th
Leadership laps :	43 over 159.4 km

Robert McGregor Innes Ireland (born June 12, 1930 in Kirkcudbright , Scotland , † October 23, 1993 in Reading , Berkshire ) was a British racing driver . Between 1959 and 1966 he competed in a total of 50 Formula 1 Grand Prix races , one of which he won.

Career

Ireland was the son of a Scottish veterinarian. Born in Yorkshire, he moved back to Scotland with his family when he was young . He completed his engineering training at Rolls-Royce , for which he worked first in Glasgow and later in London . In the early 1950s he served in the King's Own Scottish Borderers Regiment on the Suez Canal .

Innes Ireland and a few marshals push the Lotus 25 back onto the track after training for the 1965 Dutch Grand Prix

He made his Formula 1 debut at the Dutch Grand Prix in the 1959 season with the Lotus team. From 1959 to 1962 Ireland competed in 28 Grand Prix for Lotus. After he had a serious accident during training in Monte Carlo and had to take a break for several weeks, he won his first Grand Prix victory for Lotus at the US Grand Prix in 1961 , which was also the only one in his career.

From 1963 to 1964 he drove 14 races for the British Racing Partnership (BRP) team with moderate success . His best placings were two fourth places in the 1963 Dutch Grand Prix and the Italian Grand Prix .

In the 1965 season he started seven races for the Reg Parnell Racing Team with a Lotus BRM, but only crossed the finish line in three races. He completed his last two Formula 1 World Championship races with a BRM in 1966 for the Bernard White team . However, both races ended prematurely with technical defects.

Innes Ireland achieved a total of 47 World Championship points in 50 Grand Prix races. He won a Grand Prix and once set the fastest race lap (at the Belgian Grand Prix in 1960 ).

His last official race was the Daytona 500 in 1967. He later worked as a journalist for American Road & Track magazine , wrote his autobiography , All Arms and Elbows, and was President of the British Racing Drivers' Club .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

Grand Prix victories

• 1961 US Grand Prix ( Watkins Glen ) 

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1959	Team Lotus	Lotus 16	Climax 2.5 L4	6th	-	-	-	-	-	5	14th
1960	Team Lotus	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	8th	-	2	1	-	1	18th	4th
1961	Team Lotus	Lotus 21	Climax 1.5 L4	5	1	-	-	-	-	12	6th
		Lotus 18/21		1	-	-	-	-	-
1962	UDT Laystall Racing Team	Lotus 24	Climax 1.5 V8	8th	-	-	-	-	-	2	16.
1963	British Racing Partnership	Lotus 24	BRM 1.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	6th	9.
		BRP Mk1		5	-	-	-	-	-
1964	British Racing Partnership	BRP Mk2	BRM 1.5 V8	7th	-	-	-	-	-	4th	14th
1965	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 25	BRM 1.5 V8	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
		Lotus 33		2	-	-	-	-	-
1966	Bernard White Racing	BRM P261	BRM 1.9 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				50	1	2	1	-	1	47

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1959
			4th	DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF	5
1960
	6th	9		2	DNF	7th	3	6th		2
1961
	DNS		DNF	4th	10	DNF	DNF	1
1962
	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	16		DNF	8th	5
1963
	DNF	DNF	4th	9	DNF	DNF	4th
1964
	DNS		10	DNF	10		5	5	DNF	12
1965
			13	DNF	DNF	10		9	DNF	DNS
1966
								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

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1958	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus 11	Michael Taylor	failure	Distributor
1959	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Masts Gregory	failure	Engine failure
1962	UDT Laystall Racing Team	Ferrari 250 GTO	Masts Gregory	failure	battery
1963	Aston Martin Lagonda	Aston Martin DP215	Bruce McLaren	failure	Piston damage
1964	Maranello Concessionaires	Ferrari 250 GTO	Tony Maggs	Rank 6
1965	Ford Advanced Vehicles	Ford GT40 Mk.I	John Whitmore	failure	Cylinder overheated
1966	FR English Ltd.	Ford GT40	Jochen Rindt	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1962	North American Racing Team	Ferrari 250 TRI / 61	Stirling Moss	John Fulp	Fernand Tavano	Disqualified
1963	Rosebud Racing Team	Ferrari 250 GTO	Richie Ginther			Rank 6
1966	Peter Sutcliffe	Ford GT40	Peter Sutcliffe			failure	Cylinder overheated
1969	Algar Enterprises Inc.	Lancia Fulvia Coupé 1.6HF	Mike Tillson	Howard Hanna		Rank 27

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1957	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
								18th
1958	Lotus Ecurie Ecosse	Lotus Eleven Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							DNF	5
1959	Ecurie Ecosse	Lister Monza Jaguar D-Type Lotus 17	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF	DNF	DNF
1962	UDT-Laystall BMC NART Abarth	Ferrari 250 GT Austin-Healey Sprite Ferrari 250TR Ferrari 250 GTO Fiat-Abarth 1000	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
			DNF	7th	DNF	2				DNF			1
1963	Rosebud Racing Team Aston Martin	Ferrari 250 GTO Aston Martin DP215	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
			DNF		6th							DNF						7th
1964	Carroll Shelby International Maranello Concessionaires	Shelby Cobra Ferrari 275P Shelby Daytona Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
					DNF		15th		DNF		6th	DNF			6th
1965	Maranello Concessionaires Ford John Willment	Ferrari 250LM Ford GT40 Shelby Cobra	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
							6th							DNF	DNF
1966	Drummond Racing Organization Peter Sutcliffe Fred English Bernard White	Ferrari 250LM Ford GT40	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
			DNF	DNF	DNF		5	DNF	DNF						10
1969	Algar Enterprises Inc.	Lancia Fulvia	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
				27

literature

• Autobiography: All Arms and Elbows. Pelham, London 1967 (in German: All Arms and Elbows. The autobiography of the racing driver Innes Ireland. Edited, translated and edited by Thilo Figaj. T. Figaj, Lorsch 2001, ISBN 3-926707-12-7 ).
• Innes Ireland: Marathon in the Dust. William Kimber & Co. Ltd, London 1970, ISBN 0-7183-0072-6 .

Web links

Commons : Innes Ireland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Innes Ireland at motorsportmemorial.org (English)