Robin Widdows

Robin Widdows

Nation:	Great Britain
Automobile world championship
First start:	1968 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1968 British Grand Prix
Constructors
1968 Cooper
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Robin Michael Widdows (born May 27, 1942 in Cowley , England ) is a former British automobile racing driver .

Career

Bobsleigh

Widdows was one of the best British bobsleigh pilots in the early 1960s . As a member of the British four-man bobsleigh , he took part in the Olympic Winter Games in Innsbruck in 1964 (13th place) and in Grenoble in 1968 (8th place).

Motorsport

Widdows celebrated his first successes in motorsport in the mid-1960s. In 1965 he won the British Autosport Class C championship in a Lotus 23 , and the next season he competed in Formula 3 . With financial support from friends, Widdows entered the Formula 2 European Championship in 1967 . The highlight of the year was the victory at the Rhein-Cup at Hockenheim .

In 1968 he made his only appearance in Formula 1 . The team management of the once successful Cooper team provided him with a Cooper T86B - BRM for the British Grand Prix at Brands Hatch . However, after problems with the ignition, Widdows had to give up.

1969 Widdows drove back in Formula 2. For the team of Bob Gerard he won the Lottery Grand Prix and was second in Reims . He also took part in sports car races for Matra . With Nanni Galli he finished seventh at the 24 Hours of Le Mans . After another season in Formula 2, Widdows surprisingly resigned from racing at the end of the 1970 season.

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1969	Equipe Matra Elf	Matra-Simca MS630 / 650	Nanni Galli	Rank 7

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
1966	BMC	MGB	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
										11
1967	Edward Nelson	Ford GT40	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
						DNF
1968	Sportscars Unlimited	Lola T70	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
								DNF
1969	Sportscars Switzerland Matra	Lola T70 Matra MS650	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
					21st	DNF				21st	DNF

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

Commons : Robin Widdows  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Robin Widdows in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Image: Robin Widdows in the Matra MS630 / 650 in Le Mans in 1969
• Robin Widdows at Racing Sports Cars