Peter Arundell

Peter Arundell

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1964 Monaco Grand Prix
Last start:	1966 Mexican Grand Prix
Constructors
1964, 1966 Lotus
statistics
World Cup balance:	World Cup eighth ( 1964 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 11 - - -
World Cup points :	12
Podiums :	2
Leadership laps :	-

Peter John Arundell (born November 8, 1933 in Ilford , Essex , now Redbridge , London , † June 16, 2009 ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Arundell started his racing career in the British Formula Junior , which he won in 1962. In 1963 he drove in Formula 2 and in the British Formula 3 championship , in which he became champion in the same year. He then switched to the World Automobile Championship and completed a total of eleven Grand Prix in the 1964 and 1966 seasons for the Lotus team.

His best finishes were two third places, which he directly in his first two races in 1964 at the Monaco Grand Prix and the Grand Prix of the Netherlands reached. This achievement was only broken in 2007 by Lewis Hamilton , who finished the first nine Grand Prix races on the podium. Up until his last race in the World Automobile Championship at the Mexican Grand Prix in 1966 , Peter Arundell received a total of twelve World Championship points.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is 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.
1964	Team Lotus	Lotus 25	Climax 1.5 V8	4th	-	-	2	-	-	11	8th.
1966	Team Lotus	Lotus 43	BRM 3.0 H16	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	17th
		Lotus 33	Climax 2.0 V8	5	-	-	-	-	-
			BRM 2.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-
total				11	-	-	2	-	-	12

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1963
				DNS
1964
	3	3	9	4th
1966
		DNS	DNF	DNF	DNF	12	8th	6th	7th

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	WD	withdrawn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

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th
1958	Innes Ireland	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
								15th
1959	Cranham Service Station	Lotus Eleven	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							DNF

Web links

Commons : Peter Arundell  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Arundell at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ lastingtribute.co.uk: Tribute to Peter Arundell