Sam Tingle

Sam Tingle

Nation:	Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1963) Southern Rhodesia (1964–1968) Rhodesia (1969)
Automobile world championship
First start:	1963 South African Grand Prix
Last start:	1969 Grand Prix of South Africa
Constructors
1963, 1965 and 1967  Sam Tingle  1968  Team Gunston  1969  Team Gunston
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 5 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Sam Tingle (born August 24, 1921 in Manchester , † December 19, 2008 in Cape Town ) was a Formula 1 racing driver from Southern Rhodesia , now Zimbabwe .

Career

Sam Tingle was a great racing enthusiast who started racing an old Bentley in his native Rhodesia as early as 1947 . He drove an MG in the early 1950s before buying a used Connaught that was previously owned by Johnny Claes . With this vehicle he won the Rhodesian championship.

Tingle competed regularly in races in the South African monoposto championship in the 1960s . Mostly he drove Doug Serrurier's racing cars and in 1966 he celebrated his first big win by winning the Border Trophy in East London .

Tingle competed five times in the South African Grand Prix between 1963 and 1969 . In 1969 Tingle, who was the second well-known Rhodesian racing driver of the 1960s alongside John Love , achieved his best placement in the southernmost country of Africa with eighth place. His last racing car was a Brabham BT24 .

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

These statistics include all of the driver's participations in the World Automobile Championship, which is now known as the Formula 1 World Championship .

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1963	Sam Tingle	LDS Mk1	Alfa Romeo 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1965	Sam Tingle	LDS Mk2	Alfa Romeo 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1967	Sam Tingle	LDS Mk3B	Climax 2.8 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1968	Team Gunston	LDS Mk3B	Repco 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1969	Team Gunston	Brabham BT24	Repco 3.0 V8	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				5	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12
1963
										DNF
1965
	13
1967
	DNF
1968
	DNF
1969
	8th

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

literature

• Rainer W. Schlegelmilch: Portraits of the 60s Formula I. Könemann, Cologne 1994, ISBN 3-89508-047-0 .
• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

Commons : Sam Tingle  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sam Tingle at Stats F1