Ron Flockhart (racing driver)

Ron Flockhart

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1954 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 USA Grand Prix
Constructors
1954  Prince Bira Racing (Maserati) 1956  BRM - Connaught 1957  BRM 1958  Rob Walker - BRM 1959  BRM 1960  Lotus - Cooper
statistics
World Cup balance:	WM-14. ( 1956 )
Starts Victories Poles SR 13 - - -
World Cup points :	5
Podiums :	1
Leadership laps :	-

William Ronald "Ron" Flockhart (born June 16, 1923 in Edinburgh , † April 12, 1962 near Melbourne , Australia ) was a British racing driver and driver.

Career

Ron Flockhart began his motorsport career with motorcycle races before he initially competed in smaller car races in Great Britain at ERAs . From 1954 to 1960 he competed in a number of Formula 1 races, mostly on BRM , and now and then on other brands such as Connaught - Alta or Cooper . The highlight of his Formula 1 career was third place in the 1956 Italian Grand Prix . Unequal successful he was at sports car races, in 1956 and 1957 he was able to Jaguar , the 24-hour race at Le Mans decide for themselves.

In 1961 he switched to aviation, where he tried to break the record for the solo flight from Australia to Great Britain. While training for a second record flight, he crashed his plane near Melbourne and had a fatal accident.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1954	B. Bira	Maserati 250F	Maserati 2.5 L6	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1956	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	4th	14th
	Connaught Engineering	Connaught Type B	Alta 2.5 L4	1	-	-	1	-	-
1957	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1958	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1959	Owen Racing Organization	BRM P25	BRM 2.5 L4	5	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1960	Team Lotus	Lotus 18	Climax 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	1	25th
	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T51	Climax 2.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-
total				13	-	-	1	-	-	5

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1954
					DNF
1956
						DNF		3
1957
		DNF		DNF
1958
		DNQ									DNF
1959
	DNF			6th	DNF		7th	13
1960
						6th				DNF

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
1955	Lotus engineering	Lotus Mk9	Colin Chapman	failure	Disqualified
1956	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ninian Sanderson	Overall victory
1957	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Ivor Bueb	Overall victory
1959	Ecurie Ecosse	Tojeiro	John Lawrence	failure	Motor overheated
1960	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Bruce Halford	failure	drive shaft
1961	Border Reivers	Aston Martin DBR1 / 300	Jim Clark	failure	Clutch damage

Sebring results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1958	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	Masts Gregory	failure	Valve damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th
1955	Team Lotus MG	Austin-Healey 100 Lotus Mk9 MG EX182	BUA	SEB	MIM	LEM	RTT	TAR
					DNF	DNF	DNF
1956	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	KRI
							DNF
1957	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	MIM	ONLY	LEM	KRI	CAR
					DNF	8th	1
1958	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
				DNF		DNF
1959	Ecurie Ecosse	Tojeiro Jaguar D-Type	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
					DNF	DNF	7th
1960	Ecurie Ecosse	Jaguar D-Type	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
							DNF
1961	Border Reivers	Aston Martin DBR1	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	PES
						DNF

Web links

Commons : Ron Flockhart  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Ron Flockhart at Racing Sports Cars