Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins

Nation:	Australia
Automobile world championship
First start:	1965 South African Grand Prix
Last start:	Grand Prix of Germany 1965
Constructors
1965  John Willment Automobiles - DW Racing Enterprises
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 3 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Robert Paul "Hawkey" Hawkins (born October 12, 1937 in Melbourne , Australia , † May 26, 1969 in Oulton Park , England ) was an Australian racing driver . His father was a pastor who was enthusiastic about motorsport.

Career

Paul Hawkins during training for the 1965 German GP with a Lotus-Climax from DW Racing Enterprises

Hawkins competed in three Grand Prix races, the 1965 South African Grand Prix with a Brabham BT10 , the 1965 Monaco Grand Prix and the 1965 German Grand Prix . In Monaco he crashed into the harbor basin with his private Lotus 33 - comparable to the accident of Alberto Ascari  - but without seriously injuring himself.

Although Hawkins became known in Europe through Formula 3 , he was less of a single posto than a sports car driver. He started in the Ford GT40 and the Lola T70 , among others . He had his greatest success in 1967 when he and Rolf Stommelen won the Targa Florio in a Porsche 910 . 1968 he won together with David Hobbs in the World Sportscar Championship scoring 1,000-km race at Monza . Emergency vehicle was a Ford GT40 reported by John Wyer . He celebrated another success in 1967 with Jacky Ickx on a Mirage M1 at the 1000 km race in Paris .

He died at the age of 31 on May 26, 1969 at the RAC Tourist Trophy in Island Bend , a corner of the circuit in Oulton Park (GB), after he had lost control of his Lola T70 GT. The car rolled over several times and burned out. Hawkins suffocated in the car. David Piper on Paul Hawkins: "He lived hard, he drove hard and he died hard."

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics give the number of times the driver took part in the 1965 World Automobile Championship, 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.
1965	John Willment Automobiles	Brabham BT10	Ford 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
	DW Racing Enterprises	Lotus 33	Climax 1.5 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-
total				3	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1965
	9	10					DNF

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	placement	Failure reason
1961	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin Healey Sebring	John K. Colgate Jr.	failure	Valve damage
1965	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin Healey Sebring Sprite	John Rhodes	Rank 12 and class win
1966	Holman & Moody	Ford GT40 Mk.II	Mark Donohue	failure	differential
1967	Shelby American Inc.	Ford GT40 Mk.IIB	Ronnie Bucknam	failure	Valve damage
1968	John Wyer Automotive	Ford GT40	David Hobbs	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1961	John Sprinzel	Austin-Healey Sebring Sprite	Cyril Simson	Rank 37
1965	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin-Healey 3000	Warwick Banks	17th place and class win
1966	Donald Healey Motor Co.	Austin-Healey Sprite	Timo Mäkinen	Rank 18
1968	JW Engineering	Ford GT40	David Hobbs	not classified

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
1960	Team 221	Austin-Healey Sprite	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
						38
1961	John Sprinzel Donald Healey Motor Company	Austin-Healey Sprite	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			37		DNF	DNF
1962	Ian Walker	Lotus 23	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									DNF		22nd
1963	Ian Walker	Lotus 23	DAY	SEB	SEB	TAR	SPA	MAY	ONLY	CON	ROS	LEM	MON	WIS	TAV	FRE	CCE	RTT	OVI	ONLY	MON	MON	TDF	BRI
															DNF
1964	John Willment	Shelby Cobra	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
									44
1965	Donald Healey Motor Company BMC Don Moore	Austin-Healey 3000 Porsche 904 Austin-Healey Sprite	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
				17th					21st		DNF			12	6th
1966	NART Donald Healey Epstein Enterprises Porsche Holman & Moody	Ferrari 250LM Austin-Healey Sprite Porsche 906 Ford GT40	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
			DNF	18th		30th	7th	4th	DNF
1967	Jackie Epstein Porsche Shelby Paul Hawkins Scuderia Ferrari	Lola T70 Porsche 910 Ford GT40 Ferrari 330P4	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
						4th	1	2	DNF			6th		1
1968	JW Automotive Paul Hawkins	Ford GT40	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
			DNF	DNF	4th	1		3	4th	2	3	DNF
1969	Paul Hawkins David Piper	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					DNF	DNF		8th

Web links

Commons : Paul Hawkins  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Paul Hawkins at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Zwickl: World champion through technical knockout - a racing season with Porsche . Motorbuch Verlag Stuttgart 1969, page 134.