Pete Lovely

Pete Lovely

Nation:	United States
Automobile world championship
First start:	1960 USA Grand Prix
Last start:	1971 USA Grand Prix
Constructors
1960  Fred Armbruster 1969, 1970 and 1971 Pete Lovely Volkswagen Inc.
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 7th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Gerald Carlton "Pete" Lovely (born April 11, 1926 in Livingston , Montana , † May 15, 2011 in Tacoma , Washington ) was an American racing driver .

Career

Pete Lovely won the SCCA sports car series in the United States in 1955 and came to Europe in the late 1950s to race for Lotus . In 1958, he and Innes Ireland celebrated a class win at the Reims 12-hour race . A first attempt to gain a foothold in the World Automobile Championship failed because he was unable to qualify for the 1959 Monaco Grand Prix .

Lovely returned to the United States and made its debut in the top single posto class in 1960 . At the US Grand Prix he drove a Cooper T45 and finished eleventh, six laps behind the winner, Stirling Moss .

In the 1960s he set up a Volkswagen dealership in Seattle and made a comeback in the 1969 automobile world championship. Between 1969 and 1971 he competed in six Grand Prix World Championship races with a Lotus 49B . He could not achieve points for the driver championship. Lovely remained loyal to racing until the 1990s and often participated in racing events for historic racing vehicles.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Fred Armbruster	Cooper T45	Ferrari 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1969	Pete Lovely Volkswagen Inc.	Lotus 49B	Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8	3	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1970	Pete Lovely Volkswagen Inc.	Lotus 49B	Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1971	Pete Lovely Volkswagen Inc.	Lotus 69 Special	Ford-Cosworth 3.0 V8	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				7th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13
1959
	DNQ
1960
										11
1969
									7th	DNF	9
1970
					DNQ	DNQ	NC					DNQ
1971
										NC	NC

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
1958	Team Lotus Engineering	Lotus Mk15	Jay Chamberlain	failure	accident

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1956	John Edgar Enterprises	Porsche 550 Spyder	Jack McAfee		Rank 7
1957	Lindsay Hopkins	Chevrolet Corvette SR-2	Paul O'Shea		Rank 16
1958	Jim Kimberly	Maserati 200SI	Jim Kimberly		failure	water pump
1959	Team Lotus	Lotus Elite	Jay Chamberlain	Sam Weiss	Rank 21
1960	Jack Nethercutt	Ferrari 250TR59 / 60	Jack Nethercutt		3rd place and class win
1961	Jack Nethercutt	Ferrari 250TR59 / 60	Jack Nethercutt		failure	Oil pump

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1956	John Edgar Enterprises	Porsche 550	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
				7th
1957	Lindsay Hopkins	Chevrolet Corvette SR-2	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
				16
1958	Jim Kimberly Lotus	Maserati 200SI Lotus Mk15	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				DNF			DNF
1959	lotus	Lotus Elite	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
			21st
1960	Jack Nethercutt	Ferrari 250TR	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				3
1961	Jack Nethercutt	Ferrari 250TR	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
			DNF

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Pete Lovely  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Pete Loveley at Racing Sports Cars

Individual proof

1. ^ Message of death ( Memento from January 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 19, 2011 (English)