Keith Greene

Keith Greene

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	Great Britain Grand Prix 1960
Last start:	1962 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1960  Gilby Engineering Co. Ltd. 1961 and 1962 Gilby Engineering
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Keith Greene (born January 5, 1938 in Leytonstone ) is a former British racing driver .

Career

Keith Greene grew up around the British racing team Gilby Engineering , which belonged to his father. It was therefore no wonder that Greene found motorsport at the age of 18. In 1958, a Lotus Eleven was his second racing vehicle with which he competed in British sports car races.

In 1959 he started his monoposto career and finished second in the Formula 2 race in Aintree in his first race . Greene contested his races with Cooper cars until 1961 when Gilby built his own racing car for the 1.5-liter formula of the then Formula 1 . Greene competed in the 1961 British Grand Prix with the car . He had made his debut in this motorsport class a year before and, in contrast to the previous year, this time he managed a place in fifteenth place.

In 1962, Greene with the Gilby, which now had a BRM V8 engine in the rear, was a strong third at the Naples Grand Prix , beaten only by the two works Ferraris of Willy Mairesse and Lorenzo Bandini .

When Gilby retired from motorsport after continued unsuccessfulness in late 1962, Greene drove back to sports and touring car races. At the end of the 1960s he retired from active sport, but was still the manager of various racing teams in Great Britain until the mid-1990s.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Gilby Engineering	Cooper T45	Maserati 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1961	Gilby Engineering	Gilby 61	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1962	Gilby Engineering	Gilby 62	BRM 1.5 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1959
					DNQ
1960
							DNF
1961
					15th
1962
					DNS	DNF	DNQ

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
1959	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus Mk17	Alan Stacey	failure	overheated cylinder

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
1958	David Piper Gilby Engineering	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
						15th		10
1959	David Piper Lotus	Lotus 15 Lotus 17	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					29	DNF	11
1960	Taylor and Crawley Racing Team	Lotus 15	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						18th
1963	Richard Jacobs	MG Midget	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
									15th									15th
1964	Dick Jacobs	MG Midget	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
									24								6th
1965	BMC Donald Healey	MG Midget Austin-Healey Sprite	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
											27									6th
1966	Henri Perrier	Porsche 911	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
								24
1967	Chris Barber	Lotus 47	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
								DNF				DNF

literature

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

Web links

• Keith Greene at Racing Sports Cars