John Miles (racing driver)

John Miles

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1969 French Grand Prix
Last start:	Grand Prix of Austria 1970
Constructors
1969-1970  Lotus
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-19. ( 1970 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 12 - - -
World Cup points :	2
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

John Jeremy Miles (born June 14, 1943 in London - † April 8, 2018 ) was a British racing car driver who also worked as a music producer .

Career

The trained engineer and son of the actor Sir Bernard Miles drove a total of twelve Formula 1 races for Lotus in 1969 and 1970 . In 1969 he was supposed to drive the all-wheel-drive model Lotus 63 because the regular drivers Graham Hill and Jochen Rindt refused to drive the car, and Mario Andretti couldn't get along with it either.

After Hill had a serious accident at the end of 1969, did not return to the Lotus team and only drove privately used Lotus, Miles became the second works driver behind Rindt in the 1970 season. The year started well, as he was the best among a total of 5 Lotus drivers at the South African Grand Prix . Fifth place in the Lotus 49 gave him his only two championship points. Later in the season, Lotus used the Lotus 72 with which Rindt won in Zandvoort, while Piers Courage died. From the British GP, an old model 49C was used for Emerson Fittipaldi , while Miles was often eliminated, and Rindt won a total of 5 races. Rindt had a fatal accident in Monza after the wings of the Lotus had been removed, which Miles had advised against. He left the team. His successor was Reine Wisell , who first competed in the 1970 US Grand Prix .

Miles had also contested Formula 2 races for Lotus. After his active career, he continued to work for Lotus.

With Peter Watts, Miles founded the jazz label Miles Music in 1985 , on which u. a. Music by Guy Barker , Alan Barnes , Dave Cliff , Tubby Hayes , Peter King , Dick Morrissey , Mick Pyne , Alan Skidmore and Tommy Whittle appeared.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
1969
					DNF	10		DNF	DNF		DNF
1970
	5	DNQ	DNQ	DNF	7th	8th	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNS

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

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
1964	Peter Jackson John Miles	Diva GT	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
									36								DNF
1967	lotus	Lotus 47	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
												9
1968	lotus	Lotus 47	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					10
1969	lotus	Lotus 62	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					13
1971	DART racing	Chevron B19	BUA	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	ZEL	WAT
						7th

Web links

Commons : John Miles  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• John Miles at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Miles. In: oldracingcars.com. Retrieved April 9, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed April 12, 2018)