Mike Hailwood

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Mike Hailwood
Mike Hailwood 1967
Nation: United KingdomUnited Kingdom United Kingdom
Motorcycle world championship
statistics
Starts Victories Poles SR
152 76 - 79
World title: 9
World Cup points: 734
Podiums: 112
According to class (es):
125 cc class
First start: Isle of Man TT 1959
Last start: Isle of Man TT 1966
Constructors
1959–1960  Ducati  • 1961, 1966  Honda  • 1962  EMC
World Cup balance
World Cup third ( 1959 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
18th 2 - 2
World Cup points: 50
Podiums: 6th
250 cc class
First start: Isle of Man TT 1958
Last start: 1967 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
1958  NSU  • 1959  Mondial  • 1960  Ducati  • 1961, 1965–1967  Honda  • 1962–1964  MZ
World Cup balance
World Champion ( 1961 , 1966 - 1967 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
46 21st - 22nd
World Cup points: 208
Podiums: 32
350 cm³ class
First start: Dutch TT 1958
Last start: 1967 Japanese Grand Prix
Constructors
1958  Norton  • 1959  AJS  • 1961–1963, 1965  MV Agusta  • 1964  MZ  • 1966–1967  Honda
World Cup balance
World Champion ( 1966 - 1967 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
29 16 - 18th
World Cup points: 179
Podiums: 26th
500 cc class
First start: Isle of Man TT 1960
Last start: 1967 Canadian Grand Prix
Constructors
1958, 1960  Norton  • 1961–1965  MV Agusta  • 1966–1967  Honda
World Cup balance
World Champion ( 1962 - 1965 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
59 37 - 37
World Cup points: 297
Podiums: 48
Automobile world championship
First start: 1963 British Grand Prix
Last start: 1974 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1963  Lotus - Climax , Lola - Climax  • 1964–1965  Lotus - BRM  • 1971–1973  Surtees - Ford  • 1975  McLaren - Ford
statistics
World Cup balance: World Cup eighth ( 1972 )
Starts Victories Poles SR
50 - - 1
World Cup points : 29
Podiums : 2
Leadership laps : 5 over 28.8 km

Stanley Michael Bailey "Mike" Hailwood, MBE (born April 2, 1940 in Oxford , England , † March 23, 1981 in Birmingham , England) was a British motorcycle and automobile racer .

Career

Hailwood won nine world championship titles between 1961 and 1967 in the classes up to 250, 350 and 500  cm³ . He achieved a total of 76 victories in Grand Prix races and is sixth in the all-time best list behind Giacomo Agostini , Valentino Rossi , Ángel Nieto , Marc Márquez and Rolf Biland . He was also the winner 14 times at the Tourist Trophy on the Isle of Man .

Hailwood's Honda RC162 from 1961

During his time as an active racing driver, the decline of the English motorcycle industry, which had dominated racing for decades, fell. Mike Hailwood began his career on classic English racing machines. As a motorcycle dealer, his father made it possible for him to participate with various commercially available racing machines from Ducati , NSU or Honda for the smaller displacement classes. He often started with changing motorcycle brands in different cubic capacity classes. He came under contract with MV Agusta and moved to Honda after disputes. He ended his official GP motorcycle racing career with Honda in 1967. He won the first race for Honda in 1961 at the TT in the ultra lightweight class (up to 125 cm³) with an RC143 that he had received from Luigi Taveri . On the side, however, he repeatedly drove national and international motorcycle races on racing machines from the brands BSA , MZ , Benelli , Norton and others.

Because of his inimitable style in the cornering technique, his fused driving with the machine and, above all, because he could win on any motorcycle, he was given the honorary name "Mike the Bike". One of the icons of motorcycle racing and one of the most famous depictions of Hailwood is a black and white poster from 1967, which shows him from the rear at a steep angle on the six-cylinder Honda 250 cm³, the three right exhaust pipes almost horizontally flat over the Street, the three pipes on the left rise up, Hailwood's right knee almost slides on the asphalt. A symbol of the racing driver who drives with full commitment.

In his 152 starts in the motorcycle world championship , Mike Hailwood achieved 76 victories, 112 podium places and 79 fastest race laps .

From 1963 to 1965 and between 1971 and 1974 he also scored 29 World Championship points as a Formula 1 driver and made it onto the podium twice. During the 1973 South African Grand Prix , he saved Clay Regazzoni 's life by pulling him out of the burning car. After a serious accident in the 1974 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring, he ended his career in Formula 1.

At the age of 38, he returned to the Isle of Man in 1978 and won the Tourist Trophy on a Ducati 900 NCR.

On March 23, 1981, Hailwood and his nine-year-old daughter were killed in a car accident near Portway, Warwickshire , through no fault of their own.

statistics

title

Isle of Man TT victories

year class machine Average speed
1961 Lightweight 125 (125 cm³) Honda 88.23  mph (141.99  km / h )
Lightweight 250 (250 cm³) Honda 98.38 mph (158.33 km / h)
Senior (500 cm³) Norton 100.61 mph (161.92 km / h)
1962 Junior (350 cm³) MV Agusta 99.59 mph (160.27 km / h)
1963 Senior (500 cm³) MV Agusta 104.64 mph (168.4 km / h)
1964 Senior (500 cm³) MV Agusta 100.95 mph (162.46 km / h)
1965 Senior (500 cm³) MV Agusta 91.69 mph (147.56 km / h)
1966 Lightweight 250 (250 cm³) Honda 101.79 mph (163.82 km / h)
Senior (500 cm³) Honda 103.11 mph (165.94 km / h)
1967 Lightweight 250 (250 cm³) Honda 103.07 mph (165.88 km / h)
Junior (350 cm³) Honda 104.68 mph (168.47 km / h)
Senior (500 cm³) Honda 105.62 mph (169.98 km / h)
1978 Formula One (TT-F1) Ducati 108.51 mph (174.63 km / h)
1979 Senior (500 cm³) Suzuki 111.75 mph (179.84 km / h)

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season team chassis engine run Victories Second Third Poles nice
Race laps
Points WM-Pos.
1963 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 24 Climax 1.5 V8 1 - - - - - - -
Lola Mk4A 1 - - - - -
1964 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 25 BRM 1.5 V8 9 - - - - - 1 21st
1965 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 25 BRM 1.5 V8 1 - - - - - - -
1971 Team Surtees Surtees TS9 Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8 2 - - - - - 3 18th
1972 Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees Surtees TS9B Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8 10 - 1 - - 1 13 8th.
1973 Brooke Bond Oxo Team Surtees Surtees TS14A Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8 15th - - - - - - -
1974 Yardley Team McLaren McLaren M23 Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8 11 - - 1 - - 12 11.
total 50 - 1 1 - 1 29

Single results

season 1 2 3 4th 5 6th 7th 8th 9 10 11 12 13 14th 15th
1963 Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Mexico (1934-1968) .svg Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) .svg
8th 10
1964 Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Mexico (1934-1968) .svg
6th 12 * 8th DNF DNF 8th DNF 8th* 16
1965 Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) .svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of the United States.svg Flag of Mexico (1934-1968) .svg
DNF
1971 Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) .svg Flag of Spain (1945–1977) .svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of the United States.svg
4th 15 *
1972 Flag of Argentina.svg Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) .svg Flag of Spain (1945–1977) .svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of the United States.svg
DNF DNF DNF 4th 6th DNF DNF 4th 2 17 *
1973 Flag of Argentina.svg Flag of Brazil (1968–1992) .svg Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) .svg Flag of Spain (1945–1977) .svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Sweden.svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of the United States.svg
DNF DNF DNF DNF DNF 8th DNF DNF DNF DNF 14th 10 7th 9 DNF
1974 Flag of Argentina.svg Flag of Brazil (1968–1992) .svg Flag of South Africa (1928–1994) .svg Flag of Spain (1945–1977) .svg Flag of Belgium (civil) .svg Flag of Monaco.svg Flag of Sweden.svg Flag of the Netherlands.svg Flag of France.svg Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Flag of Germany.svg Flag of Austria.svg Flag of Italy.svg Flag of Canada.svg Flag of the United States.svg
4th 5 3 9 7th DNF DNF 4th 7th DNF 15 *
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 Teammate placement Failure reason
1969 United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Wyer Automotive Ford GT40 United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Hobbs Rank 3
1970 United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Wyer Automotive Porsche 917K United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Hobbs failure accident
1973 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gulf Research Racing Mirage M6 United KingdomUnited Kingdom John Watson AustraliaAustralia Vern Schuppan failure accident
1974 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Gulf Research Racing Gulf GR7 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Derek Bell Rank 4

Sebring results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1969 United KingdomUnited Kingdom JW Engineering Ford GT40 United KingdomUnited Kingdom David Hobbs failure suspension
1970 BahamasBahamas Grand Bahama Racing Car Co. Ltd. Lola T70 Mk.IIIB GT United KingdomUnited Kingdom Mike De Udy failure Brake defect

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
1966 Drummond Racing Ferrari 250LM United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM ItalyItaly MUG ItalyItaly CCE GermanyGermany HOK SwitzerlandSwitzerland SIM GermanyGermany ONLY AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF
1968 Nelson Racing Ford GT40 United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY BelgiumBelgium SPA United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL FranceFrance LEM
DNF
1969 JW Automotive Ford GT40
Mirage M2
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF DNF 5 7th DNF 3
1970 Grand Bahama Racing
J.W. Automotive
Lola T70
Porsche 917
United StatesUnited States DAY United StatesUnited States SEB United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH ItalyItaly MON ItalyItaly TAR BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM United StatesUnited States WAT AustriaAustria ZEL
DNF DNF
1973 Gulf Racing
HIRE Racing
Mirage M6
Chevron B23
United StatesUnited States DAY ItalyItaly VAL FranceFrance DIJ ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA ItalyItaly TAR GermanyGermany ONLY FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT
DNF DNF 5 DNF 1 DNF DNF 4th 5
1974 Gulf Racing Gulf GR7 ItalyItaly MON BelgiumBelgium SPA GermanyGermany ONLY ItalyItaly IMO FranceFrance LEM AustriaAustria ZEL United StatesUnited States WAT FranceFrance LEC United KingdomUnited Kingdom BRH South Africa 1961South Africa KYA
4th 2 DNF 4th 4th

literature

  • Mike Hailwood: His legendary racing years . With a foreword by Pauline Barbara Hailwood. With texts by Jim Redman. Frank-Albert Illg. Text - & - Technik-Verlag, Weissach 2007, ISBN 978-3-932563-27-0 .
  • Mike Hailwood, Ted Macauley: Mike Hailwood . (The translation into German was done by Hildegard Seyler-Rauch). Motorbuch-Verlag, Stuttgart 1970. http://d-nb.info/456862870

Web links

Commons : Mike Hailwood  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. SOUTH AFRICAN CHAMPIONS. (PDF) cdn.entelectonline.co.za, accessed on December 15, 2013 (English).