John Riseley-Prichard

John Riseley-Prichard

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1954 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1954 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1954  Rob Walker Racing
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

John Henry Riseley-Prichard (born January 17, 1924 Hereford , † July 8, 1993 in Baan Kai Thuan ) was a British racing car driver .

Career

Riseley-Prichard drove his first car races in 1953 and 1954 with a Riley in national races in Great Britain. In 1954 he borrowed a Connaught Type A from Rob Walker , with which he won the first edition of the Cornwall MRC Formula One Race ; it was a Formula 1 race without world championship status . In the same year he also took part in the British Grand Prix , which was a world championship run, with the car . Riseley-Prichard dropped out after a spin.

Riseley-Prichard races for fun. In 1955 he took part in several Formula Libre races and once let the young Tony Brooks behind the wheel. The later world class driver quickly showed him where the limits in racing really lay.

In 1955, he and Brooks drove an Aston Martin at the Le Mans 24 Hours . After the fatal accident of Pierre Levegh he came under pressure from his family who asked him to stop his racing activities. He resigned and focused on his job as an insurance broker.

Later in his life he became the focus of a child pornography scandal in the UK and immigrated to Thailand . He died there in 1993 after a long illness.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1954	Rob Walker Racing Team	Connaught Type A	Lea-Francis 2.0 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1954
					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	WD	withdrawn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
1955	Aston Martin Ltd.	Aston Martin DB3	Tony Brooks	failure	battery

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1954	HWM	HWM	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	CAP
							DNF
1955	Aston Martin	Aston Martin DB3	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
						DNF

literature

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

Web links

• John Riseley-Prichard at Racing Sports Cars