John Cannon (racing driver)

John Cannon

Nation:	Canada
Automobile world championship
First start:	1971 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1971 USA Grand Prix
Constructors
1971 Yardley BRM
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

John Cannon (born June 21, 1933 in London , † October 18, 1999 in New Mexico ) was a Canadian racing car driver .

Career

John Cannon was born in London and grew up in California , where he began racing. His first racing car was an Elva Courier. At the beginning of the 1960s, it mainly started at small sports car events before turning to the popular CanAm series.

In 1968 he drove a great race at Laguna Seca when he lapped the entire field at least once in the rain and celebrated a clear victory. This success opened the door to monoposto sport for him. In 1969 he started in Formula A. Cannon won three races and finished fourth in the championship. 1970 was followed by promotion to the next higher racing series, the SCCA series, whose championship title Cannon was able to win.

1971 Cannon came to Europe to contest a full season in the Formula 2 European Championship . However, there were no major successes here. In 1971, Cannon also contested his only Formula 1 Grand Prix . BRM entrusted him with a works car, the BRM P153 , so that Cannon could contest the US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen . Three laps behind the winner François Cevert , he finished the race in 14th place.

Cannon drove car races until the late 1970s. He started again in the CanAm series, competed in races in the USAC racing series and in Formula 5000 before retiring into private life after 15 years in racing.

Cannon died in a light aircraft crash in the fall of 1999.

statistics

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1963	NART	Ferrari 250 GTO	Joakim Bonnier	Rank 13
1964	Mecom Racing Team	Chevrolet Corvette Grand Sport	AJ Foyt	Rank 22
1965	Mecom Racing Team	Lola T70	Jack Saunders	failure	oil cooler
1967	Ed Hugus	Porsche 906	Ed Hugus	failure	Engine failure

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
1963	NART	Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
			15th		13
1964	Ulf Norinder Mecom Racing Team	Ferrari 250 GTO Chevrolet Corvette	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
			5	22nd
1965	Mecom Racing Team	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
				DNF
1967	Ed Hugus	Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
				DNF
1970	Randy's Auto Body	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
			DNF
1977	Ramsey Ferrari	Ferrari 365 GTB / 4	DAY	MUG	DIJ	MON	SIL	ONLY	VAL	BY	WAT	EST	LEC	MOS	IMO	SAL	BRH	HOK	VAL
			30th

Web links

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

• Image: John Cannon
• Picture: John Cannon in a Formula 5000 McLaren M10B 1970
• John Cannon at Racing Sports Cars