RAC Tourist Trophy 1954

Joe Kelly in his Ferrari 750 Monza, seen here at a sports car race in Great Britain. He competed in the Tourist Trophy with starting number 24. Kelly and teammate Desmond Titterington stopped a gearbox failure early

The 21st RAC Tourist Trophy , also Tourist Trophy, Dundrod , took place on September 11, 1954 on the road circuit Dundrod Circuit around the Northern Irish town of Dundrod and was the fifth round of the sports car world championship of that year.

The race

The Tourist Trophy of 1954 had a sport-historical feature. Similar to the Le Mans 24-hour race , the Tourist Trophy also included a handicap index rating. In this evaluation, the power and displacement of a vehicle were put in relation to its weight. This resulted in a handicap for large-displacement vehicles. This index rating was carried out parallel to the overall rating. In the Tourist Trophy, the points awarded at the World Sports Car Championship were not based on the overall ranking but on the index ranking. Thus the little DB HBR of Paul Armagnac and Gérard Laureau won there , who had only finished 21st in the overall standings.

Next to the Le Mans race of this year, the race was the most popular. In addition to the British works teams from Jaguar , HWM , Aston Martin , Lotus , Frazer Nash and Kieft , as well as the French Deutsch & Bonnet team, Scuderia Ferrari , Lancia , Maserati and OSCA , the strongest teams from Italy.

Although José Froilán González scrapped the rarely used 735S Spyder during training, Mike Hawthorn and Maurice Trintignant achieved an overall victory for the Scuderia. With second place in the index ranking, Ferrari also secured overall victory in the sports car world championship.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	S 3.0	15th	Scuderia Ferrari	Mike Hawthorn Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari 750 Monza	84
2	S 5.0	3	Scuderia Lancia	Piero Taruffi Juan Manuel Fangio	Lancia D24	84
3	S 5.0	4th	Scuderia Lancia	Robert Manzon Eugenio Castellotti	Lancia D24	82
4th	S 5.0	9	HWM	George Abecassis Jim Meyers	HWM	79
5	S 2.0	57	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Luigi Musso Sergio Mantovani	Maserati A6GCS	79
6th	S 3.0	6th	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Peter Whitehead Ken Wharton	Jaguar D-Type	79
7th	S 5.0	11	Ecurie Francorchamps	Jacques Swaters Roger Laurent	Jaguar C-Type	78
8th	S 3.0	19th	David Brown	Graham Whitehead Dennis Poore	Aston Martin DB3S	78
9	S 2.0	31	Boris Robert Said junior	Bob Said Masten Gregory	Ferrari 500 Mondial	75
10	S 2.0	35	Robert Chase	Alan Brown Mike Keen	Cooper T29	74
11	S 1.5	37	Redmond Gallagher	Redmond Gallagher Don Beauman	Gordini T15S	73
12	S 2.0	32	Automobiles Frazer Nash Ltd.	Richard Odlum Cecil Vard	Frazer Nash Le Mans	72
13	S 5.0	10	Joe Kelly	Joe Flynn Torrie Large	Jaguar C-Type	72
14th	S 3.0	20th	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Stirling Moss Peter Walker	Jaguar D-Type	71
15th	S 1.5	39	Kenneth McAlpine	Kenneth McAlpine Jack Fairman	Connaught AL / SR	71
16	S 1.1	46	Lotus engineering	Richard Steed Peter Scott-Russell	Lotus Mk4	70
17th	S 2.0	30th	Brian McCaldin	Brian McCaldin Charles Eyre Maunsell	Triumph TR2	69
18th	S 2.0	27	JB Johnstone	JB Johnstone Ian Titterington	Triumph TR2	69
19th	S 2.0	28	Ted Lund	Ted Lund Tom Blackburn	Triumph TR2	68
20th	S 2.0	29	Robert Dickson	Robert Dickson Ken Richardson	Triumph TR2	68
21st	S 750	52	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	Paul Armagnac Gérard Laureau	DB HBR	67
22nd	S 2.0	25th	Leslie Brooke	Leslie Brooke James Scott-Douglas	Triumph TR2	67
23	S 1.5	38	Raymond Fowler	Raymond Fowler Ernest McMillen	Porsche 550	66
24	S 2.0	26th	Ray Merrick	Ray Merrick Maurice Tew	Triumph TR2	65
25th	S 1.1	47	Kieft Cars Ltd.	Bob Ferguson Alan Rippon	Kieft	60
26th	S 750	54	Moracoine	Guy Allegre Albert Barbey	Panhard Dyna	58
Not classified
27	S 2.0	23	Gilby Engineering	Colin Davis Horace Gould	Maserati A6GCS	60
Disqualified
28	S 2.0	58	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Cesare Perdisa Benoît Musy	Maserati A6GCS / 53	63
29	S 2.0	22nd	JE Byrnes	JE Byrnes Ronnie Adams	Kieft	48
Failed
30th	S 5.0	1	Scuderia Lancia	Alberto Ascari Luigi Villoresi	Lancia D25	69
31	S 3.0	17th	David Brown	Reg Parnell Roy Salvadori	Aston Martin DB3S	57
32	S 750	51	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	René Bonnet Élie Bayol	DB HBR	47
33	S 1.5	45	Boris Robert Said junior	Ian Burgess Tony Palmer-Morewood	OSCA MT4 1350	46
34	S 2.0	56	Officine Alfieri Maserati	Luigi Bellucci Giorgio Scarlatti	Maserati A6GCS	37
35	S 5.0	5	Jaguar Cars Ltd.	Tony Rolt Duncan Hamilton	Jaguar D-Type	34
36	S 1.1	49	Giacomo Caprara	Peter Reece Jackie Reece	OSCA MT4 1100	33
37	S 1.5	36	Kieft Cars Ltd.	Jack Wescott Tommy Bridger	Kieft	32
38	S 1.5	42	Lotus engineering	Nigel Allen Mike Anthony	Lotus Mk4	20th
39	S 1.1	50	Harry Merkel	Harry Merkel Luc Buchberger	Porsche 550	19th
40	S 3.0	18th	David Brown	Peter Collins Pat Griffith	Aston Martin DB3S	5
41	S 1.5	41	Lotus engineering	Colin Chapman Mike Costin	Lotus Mk4	15th
42	S 1.5	43	Brian Naylor	Brian Naylor George Pitt	Cooper T29	5
43	S 750	55	Equipe Franco-Brittanique	Berinstein Georges Trouis	DB HBR	14th
44	S 3.0	16	Joe Kelly	Joe Kelly Desmond Titterington	Ferrari 750 Monza	13
45	S 750	53	Automobiles Deutsch et Bonnet	Jean Lucas Jean-Pierre Feuz	DB HBR	13
46	S 5.0	2	Scuderia Lancia	Juan Manuel Fangio Eugenio Castellotti	Lancia D25	11
47	S 5.0	8th	HWM	Tony Gaze John Riseley-Prichard	HWM	9
48	S 2.0	21st	Automobili OSCA	Roberto Sgorbati Lance Macklin	Osca 2000S	9
49	S 2.0	34	Henry Ohara Moore	Peter Wilson Tony Brooks	Frazer Nash Sebring	9
50	S 1.1	48	Kieft Cars Ltd.	Don Barker David Boshier-Jones	1100	6th
51	S 1.5	44	Peter Jackson	Peter Jackson Peter Lane	Cooper T29	5
Not started
52	S 3.0	14th	Scuderia Ferrari	José Froilán González Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari 735S Spider	1

¹ accident in training

Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
53	S 2.0		Paul Delebarre	Paul Delebarre	Veritas Comet RS
54	S 5.0		Malcolm Connell	Malcolm Connell William Black	Jaguar XK120C
55	S 2.0	33	Automobiles Frazer Nash Ltd.	Dick Odlum Cecil Vard	Frazer Nash
56	S 1.5	40	Connaught Engineering	Tony Marsh David Done	Connaught AL / SR

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
S 5.0	Piero Taruffi	Juan Manuel Fangio	Lancia D24	Rank 2
S 3.0	Mike Hawthorn	Maurice Trintignant	Ferrari 750 Monza	Overall victory
S 2.0	Luigi Musso	Sergio Mantovani	Maserati A6GCS / 53	Rank 5
S 1.5	Redmond Gallagher	Don Beauman	Gordini T15S	Rank 11
S 1.1	Bob Ferguson	Alan Rippon	Kieft	Rank 25
S 750	Paul Armagnac	Gérard Laureau	DB HBR	Rank 21

Racing data

• Registered: 56
• Started: 51
• Valued: 25
• Race classes: 6
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: first dry, later light rain
• Route length: 11.935 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 7: 14: 13,000 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 84
• Total distance of the winning team: 1050.258 km
• Winner's average: 145.124 km / h
• Pole position: unknown
• Fastest race lap: Mike Hawthorn - Ferrari 750 Monza (# 15) - 4: 49,000 = 148,668 km / h
• Racing series: 5th round of the 1954 World Sports Car Championship

Web links

• Results and data at wspr-racing ( Memento from June 24, 2003 in the web archive archive.today )

Previous race of the Le Mans 24-hour race in 1954

Sports car world championship

Follow-up race Carrera Panamericana 1954