Scottish Grand Prix 1951

The Scottish Grand Prix (German: Grand Prix of Scotland ) was an automobile race that was held in 1951. It was advertised for Formula 1 , but had no World Championship status . It was the first and so far only Formula 1 race in Scotland .

background

Winning vehicle: Maserati 4CLT

The Scottish Grand Prix took place on July 21, 1951, a week after the Great Britain Grand Prix , which was the fourth World Championship round of the season at Silverstone .

The Scottish race took place without international participation. A total of 19 pilots registered for the race, all of them Scots, British or Irish.

Only four of the vehicles reported were Grand Prix or Formula 1 cars: These were the Maserati 4CLT from Philip Fotheringham-Parker , David Murray and Reg Parnell and the Alta from Joe Kelly . Archie Butterworth drove the AJB Special , an in-house construction developed primarily for hill climbs with a Steyr engine and gearbox and four-wheel drive. All other vehicles were racing or street sports cars from BMW , Healey or Jaguar .

Racetrack

A temporary course at the now closed Winfield Aerodrome in the Scottish community of Hutton ( Berwickshire ) served as a racing track . The 3.219 km long course had two straights, several hairpin bends and a few twists and turns . The race went over 50 laps; the total distance was 160.446 km.

Training and racing

Only 10 of the 19 registered drivers took part in training and the race. Seven drivers did not show up at all, Bill Black and Ron Flockhart were present but did not participate in training or the race.

The Formula 1 vehicles clearly dominated the qualification training. The four drivers with Formula 1 cars occupied the first four starting positions; Pole position went to Reg Parnell; Philip Fotheringham-Parker started from second place. Ian Stewart , who drove a Jaguar, was on the last grid position . For the race, pole sitter Parnell switched to an HWM with an Alta engine.

Already at the start, the drive shaft of Parnell's HWM broke , so that he retired before completing the first lap. Fotheringham-Parker then took the lead, which he did not give up until the end of the race. Second place went to the local racing driver Gillie Tyrer , who drove a BMW 328 . Only Fotheringham-Parker and Tyrer completed all 50 laps. Ian Stewart and Rob Dickson , who finished third and fourth, were each two laps behind, the fifth driver who crossed the finish line was six laps behind and was not classified because the distance was too short. All other drivers dropped out prematurely.

Joe Kelly drove the fastest race lap (1: 29.2 minutes, average speed 129.96 km / h).

Registration list

No.	driver	chassis	engine
1	Bill Skelly	Lea-Francis	Lea-Francis
2	Ron Flockhart	JP	Vincet
3	David Murray	Maserati 4CLT	Maserati
4th	Bill Wilkinson	ERA B-Type	ERA
5	Ian Stewart	Jaguar XK 120	jaguar
6th	Reg Parnell	Maserati 4CLT HMW	Maserati Alta
7th	Fred Ashmore	Maserati 4CLT	Maserati
8th	Duncan Hamilton	ERA B-Type	ERA
9	Philip Fotheringham-Parker	Maserati 4CLT	Maserati
11	Archie Butterworth	AJB	Steyr
12	Peter Walton	Jaguar XK 120	jaguar
14th	Bill Dobson	BMW 328	BMW
15th	John Morris	Maserati 4CLT	Maserati
16	John Waugh	Jaguar XK 120	jaguar
17th	John Gilbert	Maserati 6CM	Maserati
23	Gillie Tyrer	BMW 328	BMW
27	Rob Dickson	Healey	Healey
66	Bill Black	Jaguar XK 120	jaguar
83	Joe Kelly	Alta	Alta

Classifications

Starting grid

Item	driver	constructor
01	Reg Parnell	Maserati
02	Philip Fotheringham-Parker	Maserati
03	Joe Kelly	Alta
04th	David Murray	Maserati
05	Rob Dickson	Healey
06th	Gillie Tyrer	BMW
07th	Archie Butterworth	AJB
08th	John Waugh	jaguar
09	Bill Skelly	Lea-Francis
10	Ian Stewart	jaguar

run

Item	driver	constructor	Round	time	begin
01	Philip Fotheringham-Parker	Maserati	50	1: 19: 27.0	02
02	Gillie Tyrer	BMW	50	1: 19: 34.4	06th
03	Ian Stewart	jaguar	48	+ 2 rounds	10
04th	Rob Dickson	Healey	48	+ 2 rounds	05
-	John Waugh	jaguar	44	+ 6 rounds	08th
-	David Murray	Maserati	40	DNF	04th
-	Bill Skelly	Lea-Francis		DNF	09
-	Joe Kelly	Alta	14th	DNF	03
-	Archie Butterworth	AJB	13	DNF	07th
-	Reg Parnell	Maserati	0	DNF	01
-	Ron Flockhart	JP		DNS
-	Bill Black	jaguar		DNS
-	Fred Ashmore	Maserati		DNA
-	Bill Dobson	BMW		DNA
-	John Gilbert	Maserati		DNA
-	Duncan Hamilton	ERA		DNA
-	John Morris	Maserati		DNA
-	Peter Walton	jaguar		DNA
-	Bill Wilkinson	ERA		DNA

Web links

• Statistics for the Scottish Grand Prix 1951 on the website www.chicanef1.com
• Scottish Grand Prix statistics on www.silhouet.com
• Race course of the Scottish Grand Prix with special consideration of Joe Kelly on the website www.conceptcarz.com

Individual evidence

1. ^ David Hodges: Racing Cars from A – Z after 1945 , Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-613-01477-7 , p. 10.
2. ↑ Overview of the Scottish Grand Prix on the website www.chicanef1.com (accessed on April 15, 2015).
3. ^ Starting grid of the Scottish Grand Prix on the website www.chicanef1.com (accessed on April 15, 2015).
4. ↑ Results of the Scottish Grand Prix on the website www.chicanef1.com (accessed April 15, 2015).