Joe Fry

Joe Fry

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1950
Last start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1950
Constructors
1950  Maserati
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Joseph "Joe" Fry (born October 26, 1915 Chipping Sodbury , † July 29, 1950 in Blandford Camp ) was a British automobile racing driver .

Career

Joe Fry was a mountain specialist who broke some records in the UK in the 1930s and 1940s. He was part of the family that owned the J. S. Fry & Sons chocolate factory founded in Bristol in 1761 .

Fry drove his own lightweight vehicles, which he called Freikaiser wagons . In 1950 he had a fatal accident in a hill climb in Blandford when he lost control of his racing car. A few weeks earlier, Fry had driven his only Formula 1 Grand Prix . At the first World Championship run in Formula 1 history, he shared a Maserati 4CL with Brian Shawe-Taylor at Silverstone . The duo reached tenth place in the final classification.

Joe Fry was killed in 1950 during training for mountain races of Blandford with the Free Kaiserwagen fatal.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1950	Private	Maserati 4CL	Maserati	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1950
	10

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who . Travel Publishing, London 1999, ISBN 1-902-00746-8

Web links

Commons : Joe Fry  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Joe Fry. www.motorsportmemorial.org, accessed on May 15, 2017 (English).