Ivor Bueb

Ivor Bueb

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1957 Monaco Grand Prix
Last start:	1959 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1957  Connaught - Gilby Engineering 1958 Connaught - Ecurie Demi Liter 1959 British Racing Partnership
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Ivor Léon John Bueb (born June 6, 1923 in Dulwich ; † August 1, 1959 in Clermont-Ferrand , France ) was a British automobile racing driver who won the Le Mans 24 Hours in 1955 and 1957 .

Career

Like almost all British drivers, Ivor Bueb began his motor racing career in the 500 cc Formula 3 scene. The stocky Londoner was only able to achieve success in Formula 3 when he started with Cooper vehicles. Bueb drove such good races that he was promoted to the Cooper works team in 1955.

Bueb continued to compete in Formula 3, but he had most of his missions in the small 1100 cc sports car. Since Cooper did not have a victorious car for the endurance race at Le Mans, Bueb accepted an offer from Jaguar to drive their Jaguar D-Type on the Sarthe. Although Bueb was not involved in the accident, his name is also closely linked to the most serious accident in motorsport history. The trigger was Bueb's team-mate, Mike Hawthorn, who overtook Lance Macklin's slower Austin-Healey on the left, suddenly pulled to the right and braked hard to make a pit stop. The "cut" Macklin had to swerve to the left, where the French Mercedes driver Pierre Levegh approached at high speed and could no longer react. The Mercedes flew into the audience, 83 of them were killed. Mercedes race director Alfred Neubauer withdrew the Mercedes team, but the Jaguars continued to drive. After 24 hours, Hawthorn and Bueb were waved off as winners.

In the 1950s, Bueb drove almost anything that had four wheels. In 1956 he won the Reims 12-hour race with Duncan Hamilton . In 1957 he repeated his victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, again with a Jaguar D-Type. This time his partner was Ron Flockhart .

In the Formula 1 Bueb 1957 came as a factory driver for Connaught . He made his debut at the Monaco race . By 1959 he was able to qualify five times for a World Cup Grand Prix, he did not score any points.

In 1959 he drove for Lister in the World Sports Car Championship . In Formula 1 he got a contract with BRP and also started in Formula 2 with their Cooper T51 -Borgward . But like so many in the 1950s, Bueb lost his life on the racetrack. He had a serious accident on July 26, 1959 at the Auvergne Trophy in Clermont-Ferrand and died five days later in a local hospital.

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	Connaught Engineering	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Gilby Engineering	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-
1958	BC Ecclestone	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
	Ecurie Demi Liter	Lotus 12	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-
1959	British Racing Partnership	Cooper T51	Borgward 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1957
		DNF			NC
1958
							DNF	11
1959
	DNQ				13

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
1955	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Jaguar D-Type	Mike Hawthorn	Overall victory
1956	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Jaguar D-Type	Mike Hawthorn	Rank 6
1957	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ron Flockhart	Overall victory
1958	Duncan Hamilton	Jaguar D-Type	Duncan Hamilton	failure	accident
1959	Brian Lister	Lister LM	Bruce Halford	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1956	Jaguar New York Inc.	Jaguar D-Type	Duncan Hamilton	failure	Brake defect
1957	Jaguar Cars North America	Jaguar D-Type	Mike Hawthorn	Rank 3
1958	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ninian Sanderson	failure	Valve damage
1959	The Lister Corp.	Lister	Stirling Moss	Disqualified

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1955	Jaguar Cars Cooper	Jaguar D-Type Cooper T39	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
						1	10
1956	jaguar	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
				DNF
1957	Jaguar Cars North America Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
				3		11	1
1958	Ecurie Ecosse Duncan Hamilton Lister	Jaguar D-Type Lister	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF
1959	Lister	Lister	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			DNF			DNF

Web links

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• Image: Jaguar D-Type with the number 6 (right), the winning car from Hawthorn / Bueb in Le Mans 1955