Peter Ashdown

Peter Ashdown

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1959 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1959 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1959  Equipe Alan Brown (Cooper)
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Peter Hawthorn Ashdown (born October 16, 1934 in Danbury , Essex ) is a retired British racing car driver .

Career

Peter Ashdown is one of those racing drivers who have only participated in a single world championship run of the automobile world championship . Ashdown competed in the 1959 British Grand Prix , held on July 18th at the Aintree Circuit , on a Cooper T45 - Climax owned by the Alan Brown team . He finished the race 6 laps behind the winner Jack Brabham in a Cooper T51 -Climax in 12th place.

Ashdown was successful in sports car racing . Between 1955 and 1962, it contested 87 races. He achieved 13 overall and 11 class wins. His last appearance was in the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring in 1962 , which he finished eighth overall.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1959	Alan Brown Equipe	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9
1959
					12

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	WD	withdrawn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
1960	Lola Cars Ltd.	Lola MK1	Charles Vögele	failure	Engine failure

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1960	Charles Vögele	Lola MK1	Charles Vögele	17th place and class win

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
1957	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
								DNF
1958	lotus	Lotus Eleven	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
								7th
1959	Lola	Lola MK1	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF		6th
1960	Charles Vögele	Lola MK1	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
				17th		17th	DNF
1961	Charles Vögele	Lola MK1	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
					19th
1962	Ian Walker	Lotus 23	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
									8th

literature

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

Web links

• Image: Peter Ashdown
• Peter Ashdown at Racing Sports Cars