John Rhodes (racing driver)

John Rhodes

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1965
Last start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1965
Constructors
1965  Gerard Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

John Rhodes (born August 18, 1927 in Wolverhampton ) is a former British racing driver .

Career

John Rhodes drove regularly in Formula Junior in the early 1960s and won the Irish Formula Junior Championship in 1961 for the Midland Racing Partnership team .

In 1962 he continued to compete in Formula Junior races and now started for the team of the former Automboil World Championship driver Bob Gerard . In 1963 he moved again and denied his races for the team of Ken Tyrrell .

But Rhodes became known as a factory driver for Mini in the late 1960s. Rhodes contested his only Grand Prix at the 1965 British Grand Prix . Bob Gerard's old Cooper T60 was inferior to the competition and had an ignition problem throughout the weekend that Gerard Racing's mechanics could not solve. In the race, Rhodes fell far behind with misfires and had to give up prematurely.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1965	Bob Gerard Racing	Cooper T60	Climax 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1965
					DNF

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	WD	withdrawn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
1965	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin Healey Sebring Sprite	Paul Hawkins	Rank 12
1966	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin Healey Sprite Le Mans	Clive Baker	failure	Clutch damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1967	British Motor Corp.	MGB	Timo Mäkinen	Rank 12

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
1965	Healey engine	Austin-Healey Sprite	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
														12
1966	BMC Healey engine	MGB Austin-Healey Sprite	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
						9			DNF
1967	BMC	MGB	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
				12

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

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

• John Rhodes at Racing Sports Cars