John Bridges

John Bridges competed in many sports car races on a Chevron B19

John Bridges (born January 5, 1936 in Fylde , † January 23, 1998 in Preston ) was a British racing car driver .

Racing career

John Bridges was active as a sports car driver in the 1960s and 1970s . He contested races in the British GT Championship and the World Sports Car Championship . In 1968 he won three races of the British Championship at Oulton Park in a matter of days . In the sports car world championship he achieved two third places overall. In 1972 he and John Hine finished third in the 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps . He reached the same position in 1973 with John Burton in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring . The results were brought in with 2-liter racing cars from Chevron . In addition to these successes, he came second in the 400 km race in Barcelona in 1972 and third in the 1000 km race in Paris that year .

statistics

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1968	Chevron Cars Red Rose Motors Bridges Walker	Chevron B8	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					17th			DNF	18th
1969	Chevron Cars Bridges Walker	Chevron B8	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					DNF		16	DNF
1970	Chevron Cars Red Rose Motors	Chevron B16	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					17th				34
1971	Red Rose Racing	Chevron B16	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
						15th
1972	Chevron Cars Red Rose Racing	Chevron B19 Chevron B21	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
			8th					3		5		6th
1973	Red Rose Racing	Chevron B23	DAY	VAL	DIJ	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
									3

literature

• Peter Higham: The Guinness Guide to International Motor Racing. A complete Reference from Formula 1 to Touring Car. Guinness Publishing Ltd., London 1995, ISBN 0-85112-642-1 .

Web links

Commons : John Bridges  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• John Bridges at the Driver Database
• John Bridges at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 400 km race of Barcelona in 1972