Owen Saunders-Davies

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On a Talbot AV105, Owen Saunders-Davies achieved third place overall in the 1931 Le Mans 24-hour race

Arthur Owen Saunders-Davies (born June 2, 1901 in Newcastle Emlyn , † October 12, 1959 in Romsey ) was a British racing driver .

Career in motorsport

Owen Saunders-Davies was a member of the Saunders-Davies family who ran a large estate in the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire for many generations . He was a racing driver in the 1930s and had most of the successes on the Brooklands racetrack . In 1932 he finished second in the Brooklands 1000 Mile Race . Saunders-Davies , who drove alone on a Talbot AV105, was beaten by a pair of women. Elsie Wisdom and Joan Richmond achieved a highly regarded overall victory on a Riley 9 .

He competed three times in the Le Mans 24-hour race . While he retired prematurely in 1934 as a partner of Freddie de Clifford after a valve damage on the Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 , he finished the race in 1931 together with Tim Rose-Richards in third overall.

Owen Saunders-Davies died in a car accident in Romsey in October 1959 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year team vehicle Teammate placement Failure reason
1929 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Cecil Wingfield Fiennes Invicta LC 4½ liter United KingdomUnited Kingdom Cecil Wingfield Fiennes failure Engine failure
1931 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Arthur Fox & Charles Nicholl Talbot AV105 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tim Rose-Richards Rank 3
1934 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Tim Rose-Richards Alfa Romeo 8C 2300 United KingdomUnited Kingdom Freddie de Clifford failure Valve damage

literature

  • Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .
  • RM Clarke: Le Mans. The Bentley & Alfa Years 1923-1939. Brooklands Books, Cobham 1998, ISBN 1-85520-465-7 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Brooklands 1000 Mile Race, 1932