Mike Spence
Nation: | United Kingdom | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1963 Italian Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1968 Grand Prix of South Africa | ||||||||
Constructors | |||||||||
1963–1966 Lotus • 1967–1968 BRM | |||||||||
statistics | |||||||||
World Cup balance: | World Cup eighth ( 1965 ) | ||||||||
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World Cup points : | 27 | ||||||||
Podiums : | 1 | ||||||||
Leadership laps : | - |
Michael "Mike" Henderson Spence (born December 30, 1936 in Croydon , Great Britain , † May 7, 1968 in Indianapolis , USA ) was a British automobile racing driver .
Motorsport career
From 1960 to 1963 Spence drove in Formula Junior . In the automobile world championship he started for the first time in 1960 on an Emeryson Climax in a race on the Solitude race track that was not part of the world championship .
On September 8, 1963, Spence completed his first race in the automobile world championship at the Italian Grand Prix when he replaced the injured Trevor Taylor at Lotus . Spence started from ninth place, 3.6 seconds behind John Surtees, who was fastest in training . In the race, he retired on the 73rd of 86 laps after a problem with the oil pressure of his engine.
Spence won the Race of Champions in 1965 and the Grand Prix of South Africa in 1966 , both events that were not part of the World Cup. At world championship races Spence only managed a podium finish once: on October 24, 1965 at the Mexican Grand Prix , he was third behind the winner Richie Ginther and second-placed Dan Gurney .
Spence achieved a total of 27 World Championship points in 36 Grand Prix races.
On May 7, 1968, a week before the actual race, he had an accident at the age of 31 as a substitute driver for Jim Clark , who had died exactly one month earlier, during training for the 500-mile race in Indianapolis in a Lotus 56 with all-wheel drive and gas turbine also deadly. Spence, who started for Andy Granatelli and Colin Chapman's STP Indy team , lost control of the car, hit the concrete wall of the track and was hit on the helmet by his right front wheel. A few hours later he died of severe head injuries in the hospital.
statistics
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. |
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1963 | Team Lotus | Lotus 25 | Climax 1.5 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
1964 | Team Lotus | Lotus 25 | Climax 1.5 V8 | 2 | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | 12. |
Lotus 33 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
1965 | Team Lotus | Lotus 33 | Climax 1.5 V8 | 8th | - | - | 1 | - | - | 10 | 8th. |
Lotus 25 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
1966 | Reg Parnell Racing Ltd. | Lotus 25 | BRM 2.0 V8 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 4th | 13. |
Lotus 33 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | |||||
1967 | Owen Racing Organization | BRM P83 | BRM 3.0 H16 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 10. |
1968 | Owen Racing Organization | BRM P115 | BRM 3.0 H16 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
total | 36 | - | - | 1 | - | - | 27 |
Single results
season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 5 | 6th | 7th | 8th | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 |
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1963 | ||||||||||||
13 | ||||||||||||
1964 | ||||||||||||
9 | 8th | DNF | 6th | 7th | 4th | |||||||
1965 | ||||||||||||
4th | 7th | 7th | 4th | 8th | DNF | 11 | DNF | 3 | ||||
1966 | ||||||||||||
DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 5 | DNF | 5 | DNF | DNS | ||||
1967 | ||||||||||||
DNF | 6th | 8th | 5 | DNF | DNF | DNF | 5 | 5 | DNF | 5 | ||
1968 | ||||||||||||
DNF |
Legend | ||
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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 |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1967 | Chaparral Cars Ltd. | Chaparral 2F | Phil Hill | failure | Power transmission |
Sebring results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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1967 | Chaparral Cars | Chaparral 2F | Jim Hall | failure | differential |
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 |
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1966 | Vixen Investments Nick Cussons |
Ford GT40 | DAY | SEB | MON | TAR | SPA | ONLY | LEM | MUG | CCE | HOK | SIM | ONLY | ZEL | |
12 | DNF | |||||||||||||||
1967 | Chaparral Cars | Chaparral 2F | DAY | SEB | MON | SPA | TAR | ONLY | LEM | HOK | MUG | BRH | CCE | ZEL | OVI | ONLY |
DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | 1 | ||||||||||
1968 | Alan Mann Racing | Ford P68 | DAY | SEB | BRH | MON | TAR | ONLY | SPA | WAT | ZEL | LEM | ||||
DNF |
See also
Web links
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Spence, Mike |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Spence, Michael Henderson (real name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | December 30, 1936 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Croydon , UK |
DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 1968 |
Place of death | Indianapolis , USA |