Keith Hall

This article describes the British racing driver. For the mansion of the same name in Scotland, see Keith Hall (Aberdeenshire) .

Keith Hall (born January 9, 1929 in Newcastle upon Tyne ) is a retired British automobile driver .

Career

Keith Hall competed in monoposto and sports car races in the 1950s . He competed in the British Formula 3 championship with vehicles from Cooper and Lotus and was able to achieve several racing victories in 1954 and 1955.

Success in sports car races in Great Britain earned him a Lotus works engagement at the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1956 . His partner in the Lotus Eleven was Cliff Allison . He could not finish the race because Allison had to retire after an accident caused by a dog running across the track. In 1957 he came back to Le Mans, finished 14th in the overall standings and celebrated a class victory.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1956	Lotus Engineering Ltd.	Lotus Eleven	Cliff Allison	failure	accident
1957	Lotus Engineering Ltd.	Lotus Eleven	Cliff Allison	14th place and class win

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
1957	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
							14th
1958	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
								17th

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. 2 volumes. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

• Keith Hall at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Keith Hall in Formula 3 ( Memento of the original from December 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.