Lavant Cup

The Lavant Cup was a monoposto race that was held on the Goodwood circuit from 1949 to 1962.

history

Goodwood Circuit: Routing 1948

The first Lavant Cup was announced in 1949 for racing cars in the Formula 2 class . The aim of the Cup was to take account of this new racing class and also to create a racing event for young drivers. Within a short period of time, however, the Cup became so prestigious that almost all well-known British racing teams and drivers took part in it by the end of the 1950s.

The first cup was won by Dudley Folland in a Ferrari 166SC in 1949 . British top drivers like Roy Salvadori , who won a Connaught Type A in 1955 , and Tony Brooks , who competed in a Cooper T41 in 1957 , secured the Cup. In 1958 and 1959, Jack Brabham won the race, driving a Cooper T43 in 1958 and a Cooper T45 the following year . The last Formula 2 winner was Innes Ireland in 1960 on a Lotus 18 .

In 1961 the Cup was advertised for the short-lived Intercontinental Formula , in 1962 it was a Formula 1 race that was not part of the World Championship . After a victory for Stirling Moss in 1961, the New Zealander Bruce McLaren won the last Lavant Cup in 1962 on a factory Cooper T55 .

Results

Edition	date	class	winner	Second	Third	Pole position	Fastest race lap
1	April 18, 1949	Formula 2	Dudley Folland ( Ferrari )	Frank Kennington ( Cisitalia )	Jack Fairman ( Riley )	Peter Clark ( HRG )	Dudley Folland ( Ferrari )
	1950–1951: No Lavant Cup
4th	April 4th 1952	Formula 2	Mike Hawthorn ( Cooper )	Alan Brown ( Cooper )	Eric Brandon ( Cooper )	Mike Hawthorn ( Cooper )	Mike Hawthorn ( Cooper )
5	April 6, 1953		Toulo de Graffenried ( Maserati )	Roy Salvadori ( Connaught )	Tony Rolt ( Connaught )	Roy Salvadori ( Connaught )	Roy Salvadori ( Connaught )
	1954: No Lavant Cup
6th		Formula 2	Roy Salvadori ( Connaught )
	1956: No Lavant Cup
8th	April 22, 1957	Formula 2	Tony Brooks ( Cooper )	Jack Brabham ( Cooper )	Ron Flockhart ( Lotus )	Tony Brooks ( Cooper )	Roy Salvadori ( Cooper )
9	April 7, 1958		Jack Brabham ( Cooper )	Graham hill ( lotus )	Cliff Allison ( Lotus )	Roy Salvadori ( Cooper )	Graham hill ( lotus )
10	March 30, 1959		Jack Brabham ( Cooper )	Roy Salvadori ( Cooper )	Jim Russell ( Cooper )	Jack Brabham ( Cooper )	Roy Salvadori ( Cooper )
11	April 18, 1960		Innes Ireland ( Lotus )	Stirling Moss ( Porsche )	Roy Salvadori ( Cooper )	Innes Ireland ( Lotus )	Innes Ireland ( Lotus )
13	April 3, 1961	Intercontinental Formula	Stirling Moss ( Cooper )	Bruce McLaren ( Cooper )	Graham Hill ( BRM )	Bruce McLaren ( Cooper )	Bruce McLaren ( Cooper )
14th	April 23, 1962	formula 1	Bruce McLaren ( Cooper )	Roy Salvadori ( Lola )	Tony Shelly ( Lotus )	Bruce McLaren ( Cooper )	Bruce McLaren ( Cooper )

literature

• Adriano Cimarosti: The century of racing , Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-613-01848-9
• David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2001 , 2001 (Crowood Press), ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English)
• David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7
• Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945–1965 , Motor Racing Publications 1998, ISBN 1-899870-39-3 (English)
• Mark Whitelock: 1½ liter Grand Prix Racing 1961–1965 - Low Power, High Tech. Veloce Publishing 2006. ISBN 1-84584-016-X .

Web links

• Results of the Voiturette and Formula 2 races from 1930 to 1984 on the website www.formula2.net (archived version)

References and comments

1. ↑ ^{a b c} The organizers included the years 1950 and 1951, in which no Lavant Cup races took place, in the official count, so that the race of 1952, which was actually the second event with this name, counted as the fourth race becomes. The same procedure was followed in 1955 and 1957 after further interruptions. There was no 12th edition of the Lavant Cup.