Michael Taylor (racing driver)

Michael Taylor

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1959 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1959 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1959  Alan Brown Equipe
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Michael "Mike" Taylor (born April 24, 1934 in London ; † April 4, 2017 ) was a British automobile racing driver .

Career

Michael Taylor raced a Lotus XI sports car in the UK as an amateur in the late 1950s and won a number of club races. In 1959, he won with his Lotus Grand Prix des Frontières at Chimay and rose with a Formula 2 - Cooper in the single-seater a scene. After winning the BARC 200 in Aintree , his first and only race in the automobile world championship followed .

For the Alan Brown team , he competed with a Cooper T45 at the Great Britain Grand Prix in Aintree. The performance was a failure, Taylor had to give up the race just before the end after problems with the clutch . 1960 Taylor tried again in the automobile world championship. He entered the Belgian Grand Prix with a Lotus 18 . At one of the most tragic Grand Prix weekends in history - Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey died in the race , Stirling Moss had a serious accident in training but got away with his life - Taylor had a serious accident. The Lotus raced into the forest after a steering defect and was almost completely destroyed on impact. Taylor survived the accident with serious injuries, but made a full recovery. However, his racing career was over.

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1959	Alan Brown Equipe	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

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

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	WD	withdrawn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
1958	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus 11	Innes Ireland	failure	Distributor
1959	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus 17	Jonathan Sieff	failure	Ignition damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1958	Lotus Gilby Engineering	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							DNF	10
1959	Lister Lotus Taylor & Crawley	Lister Costin Lotus 17 Lotus 15	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF	DNF	DNF
1960	Taylor and Crawley Racing Team	Lotus 15	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						27

literature

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

Web links

• Michael Taylor at Racing Sports Cars