Reg Parnell Racing

Parnell

Surname	Reg Parnell Racing
Companies
Company headquarters
Team boss	Reg Parnell Tim Parnell
statistics
First Grand Prix	Great Britain 1959
Last Grand Prix	Monaco 1969
Race driven	83
Constructors' championship	0
Drivers World Championship	0
Race wins	0
Pole positions	1
Fastest laps	0
Points	0

The Lola Mk4 from the Yeoman Credit Racing team led by Reg Parnell

Richard Attwood in Reg Parnell's Lotus 25 at the 1965 German Grand Prix

Reg Parnell Racing was a British motorsport team that competed in Formula 1 from 1959 to 1969 . 1961 and 1962 it was called with regard to the main sponsor Yeoman Credit Racing and Bowmaker-Yeoman Credit Racing respectively . The team was led until 1963 by the former racing driver Reginald "Reg" Parnell . It was a pure customer team , so they didn't manufacture the chassis themselves.

Team history

Before the Second World War, Reg Parnell had competed in various motor sport classes, some of them on Bugatti . After the war he took part in several Formula 1 races. Parnell was a participant in the first Formula 1 world championship run, the British Grand Prix in 1950 . He finished the race in third place for Alfa Romeo . His last Formula 1 race was the non-World Championship Grand Prix of New Zealand in January 1957, which he won.

In 1959 Parnell founded his own racing team, which made its debut in Formula 1 at the 1959 British Grand Prix . In 1961, Parnell entered into an alliance with British financial services company Yeoman Credit , who had been the main sponsor of the rival BRP team in 1959 and 1960 . Yeoman Credit backed Parnell's team in 1961 and 1962 with £ 20,000 each; in return, the racing team appeared in those years under the name Yeoman Credit Racing (1961) and Bowmaker Yeoman Credit (1962). Reg Parnell lost the financial services provider's support for the 1963 Formula 1 season. The racing team continued as a purely private team and used the name Reg Parnell Racing again from 1963. Reg Parnell died in January 1964 as a result of an operation. His son Tim Parnell , himself a former racing driver, took over the management of the racing team. Tim Parnell built up a close relationship with BRM from 1967 and made his racing team BRM's preferred customer team. The mutual trust was so great that Tim Parnell took over the management of the BRM factory team in 1970. He then stopped racing Reg Parnell Racing.

Reg Parnell Racing took part in 83 Formula 1 world championship races from 1959 to 1969, in addition there were numerous races without world championship status. The most successful year was 1962 : on the newly designed Lola Mk4 , John Surtees achieved two second places for the racing team. Surtees was also the most successful of the total of 24 pilots who competed for Reg Parnell Racing.

The vehicles

Parnell has used different chassis over the years. Initially, the team preferred Cooper vehicles . In 1962 it used a new design by Lola . Parnell was the first team to use a Lola in a Formula 1 World Championship run. After Lola ended his Formula 1 involvement, Parnell switched to Lotus vehicles . Reg Parnell Racing was the only customer team to use the "epoch-making" Lotus 25 . As a customer team, Reg Parnell Racing did not receive any championship points in the constructors' championship. As far as Parnell's drivers finished in the points in world championship races, the counters in the constructors' standings were assigned to the manufacturer who had designed the chassis used.

In the second half of 1963, Reg Parnell decided to develop his own vehicle. The reason for this was the limited competitiveness of the partially outdated customer vehicles used by the team. In addition, Parnell, like other customer teams, was dependent on the benevolence of the chassis manufacturers, who for their part maintained factory teams and competed with the privateers. Parnell commissioned the designer Les Redmond to develop his own vehicle, which was to be used in the 1964 season. It was planned that Redmond should construct a copy of the successful Lotus 25. The project ended with the unexpected death of Reg Parnell in January 1964. His son Tim, who continued the team, succeeded in taking over two former factory 25s from Lotus, so that the need for the independent construction of a 25-copy was eliminated. Redmond converted the vehicle intended for Parnell into a sports car in the course of 1964, which was used with Mike Spence in numerous sports car races.

Pilots

Over the years, several established pilots drove for Parnell, many of whom had previously competed for works teams. They included Innes Ireland, Pedro Rodríguez , Roy Salvadori and Maurice Trintignant . On the other hand, the team also repeatedly gave young drivers a chance: Chris Amon , Piers Courage and Peter Revson began their Formula 1 careers at Parnell.

Race results

season	team	chassis	driver	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	Points	rank
1959																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Cooper T45 - Climax	Henry Taylor					12
			Tim Parnell					DNQ
1960																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Cooper T51 - Climax	Henry Taylor				7th						14th
			Olivier Gendebien										12
			Phil Hill										6th
			Tony Brooks										DNF
1961																0	-
	Yeoman Credit Racing	Cooper T53 - Climax	John Surtees	11	7th	5	DNF	DNF	5	DNF	DNF
			Roy Salvadori				8th	6th	10	6th	DNF
1962																0	-
	Bowmaker-Yeoman Credit Racing	Lola Mk4 - Climax	John Surtees	DNF	4th	5	5	2	2	DNF	DNF	DNF
			Roy Salvadori	DNF	DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF		DNF
1963																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Lola Mk4 - Climax Lotus 24 - BRM	Chris Amon	DNS	DNF	DNF	7th	7th	DNF	DNS		DNF
			Maurice Trintignant	DNF			8th
			Lucien Bianchi		DNF
			Masts Gregory				DNF	11		DNF	DNF	DNF
			Mike Hailwood					8th		10
			John Campbell-Jones					13
			Rodger Ward								DNF
			Hap Sharp								DNF	7th
1964																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 24 - BRM Lotus 25 - BRM	Chris Amon	DNQ	5	DNF	10	DNF	11	DNF		DNF	14th
			Mike Hailwood	6th	12		8th	DNF	DNF	8th	DNF	8th	14th
			Peter Revson			DSQ	DNS	DNF
1965																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 25 - BRM Lotus 33 - BRM	Tony Maggs	11
			Richard Attwood		DNF	14th		13	12	DNF	6th	10	6th
			Mike Hailwood		DNF
			Innes Ireland			13	DNF	DNF	10		9	DNF
			Chris Amon				DNF			DNF
			Bob Bondurant										DNF
1966																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 25 - BRM	Mike Spence	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	5	DNF	5	DNF	DNS
		Ferrari 246 Tasman - Ferrari	Giancarlo Baghetti							NC
1967																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 25 - BRM BRM P83 - BRM BRM P261 - BRM	Piers Courage	DNF	DNF				DNS
			Chris Irwin			7th	DNF	5	7th	7th	DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF
1968																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	BRM P126 - BRM	Piers Courage		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNF	6th	8th	8th	4th	DNF	DNF	DNF
1969																0	-
	Reg Parnell Racing	BRM P126 - BRM	Pedro Rodríguez	DNF	DNF	DNF

See also

• Yeoman Credit Racing

literature

• David Hodges: A – Z of Grand Prix Cars 1906–2000. 1st edition, London 2001, ISBN 1-86126-339-2 (English)
• David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1993 . Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 .
• Mike Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-1965 . Motor Racing Publications (London) 1998. ISBN 1-899870-39-3

Individual evidence

1. ^ On the whole, see Lawrence: Grand Prix Cars 1945-65, 225 f.