Les Leston

Les Leston

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1956 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1957 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1956  Connaught Engineering 1957 Owen Racing Organization
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 2 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Alfred Lazarus Fingleston , better known as Les Leston , (born December 16, 1920 in Nottingham , † May 13, 2012 ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Les Leston was one of the best racing drivers in the then still young British 500cc Formula 3 scene in the early 1950s . In 1952 he celebrated his first victory on the continent when he won the Grand Prix of Luxembourg . After finishing second in the championship in both 1952 and 1953, he secured the title of British Formula 3 champion in a works Cooper in 1954 .

In addition to a commitment to John Willment whose Cooper sports car he in the World Sportscar Championship drove debuted Leston the 1956 Italian Grand Prix in Formula 1 . On a works Connaught Type B it failed after a technical defect. With the same car, he finished third in the Richmond Trophy a few weeks later .

In 1957 he drove a Formula 2 - Cooper T43 in national races, a factory BRM P25 in the British Grand Prix at Aintree and was at the 1000 km race at the Nurburgring sixth on an Aston Martin .

After a serious accident in Caen in 1958, Leston concentrated more on building up his company that produced racing clothing. Until the early 1960s, however, he was a regular guest in British club races with his Lotus Elite .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1956	Connaught Engineering	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1957	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				2	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th
1956
								DNF
1957
		DNQ			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	WD	withdrawn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	Lance Macklin	Austin-Healey 100S	Lance Macklin	failure	accident
1957	David Brown	Aston Martin DBR1 / 300	Roy Salvadori	failure	Oil pump
1960	Standard triumph	Triumph TR4S	Mike Rothschild	not classified
1961	Standard triumph	Triumph TR4S	Rob Slotemaker	Rank 11

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
1955	Lance Macklin	Austin-Healey 100	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
						DNF
1957	Aston Martin	Aston Martin DBR1	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						6th	DNF
1958	M. Trimble	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
								DNF
1960	triumph	Triumph TR4	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
							DNF
1961	Les Leston triumph	Lotus Elite Triumph TR4	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					34	11
1962	Vögele & Leston Les Leston	Lotus Elite	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									DNF				19th

literature

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

Web links

• Les Leston at Racing Sports Cars