Neil Crang

Neil Crang contested his first Le Mans 24-hour race in 1982 on a Chevron B36

Neil Crang (born December 31, 1949 in Melbourne ) is a retired Australian racing car driver .

Racing career

Neil Crang was primarily active as a sports car driver in the 1980s . It made its first appearance in the sports car world championship in 1980 at the 6-hour race at Brands Hatch . As a partner of Ian Taylor and Mario Hytten , he finished the race in the Tiga SC79 in tenth place overall. In the following years he was a works driver at Tiga Race Cars and Spice Engineering and, in addition to the starts in the world championship, also entered races in the British Thundersports series . He achieved his only race win in this series when he won a race at Oulton Park in 1985 with Tim Lee-Davey . In his last race he achieved the best result in a world championship run when he was sixth overall in the 360 km race at Sandown Park in 1988 .

Neil Crang started five times in the 24 Hours of Le Mans and twice in the 12 Hours of Sebring . Neither on the Circuit des 24 Heures nor in Sebring did he manage to place in the final classification.

In 1982 and 1983 he tried to achieve good results in monoposto racing and competed in races in the British Formula Atlantic Championship . He finished both seasons in sixth place in the annual ranking.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1982	Chevron Racing Cars	Chevron B36	Martin Birrane	John Sheldon	failure	Gearbox damage
1984	Spice Tiga Racing	Tiga GC84	Gordon Spice	Ray Bellm	failure	Engine failure
1985	Spice engineering	Tiga GC84	Tim Lee-Davey	Tony Lanfranchi	not classified
1986	Cosmik Racing Promotions	March 84G	Raymond Touroul	Costa's lot	Disqualified
1987	Dune Motorsport	Tiga GC287	Jean Krucker	Duncan Bain	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1981	Angelo Pallavicini	Porsche 934	Angelo Pallavicini	Dan Simpson	failure	malfunction
1982	Angelo Pallavicini	Porsche 935	Angelo Pallavicini	John Sheldon	failure	malfunction

Web links

• Neil Crang at Racing Sports Cars
• Neil Crang at the Driver Database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brands Hatch 6-hour race in 1980
2. ^ Thundersports Oulton Park 1985
3. ^ 1988 Sandown Park 360 km race
4. ^ British Formula Atlantic Championship 1982
5. ^ British Formula Atlantic Championship 1983