Noël Cunningham-Reid

In an Aston Martin DBR1 , Noël Cunningham-Reid won the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring together with Tony Brooks in 1957

Noël Cunningham-Reid (born December 25, 1930 in London ) is a former British racing driver .

Career

Cunningham-Reid was born in 1930 to Ruth Mary Clarisse Ashley and Alec Cunningham-Reid . He was born into a family of politicians, all members of the Conservative Party . His maternal grandfather, Baron Wilfrid Ashley, was British Minister of Transport from 1924 to 1929. His father, a flying ace in World War I , was a member of the British House of Commons from 1922 to 1945 .

Noël Cunningham-Reid himself became known as a racing driver in the 1950s. After initial success in club races, he started as a regular Lister driver in the British sports car championship in 1955 and won the races at Silverstone Circuit , Brands Hatch and Oulton Park . He contested his first international races in 1956 for HWM , for which he started among other things at the 12-hour race in Reims . He celebrated his greatest international success in 1957 when he won the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring as a works driver for Aston Martin together with Tony Brooks .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1957	Aston Martin Ltd.	Aston Martin DB3S	Tony Brooks	failure	accident

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	16	17th	18th	19th	20th	21st	22nd
1957	Aston Martin	Aston Martin DBR1	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
						1	DNF

Web links

• Noël Cunningham-Reid at Racing Sports Cars