Tony Marsh (racing driver)

Anthony Marsh

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1957 German Grand Prix
Last start:	1961 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1957  Ridgeway Managements  1958  Tony Marsh  1961  Tony Marsh
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 4th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Anthony Ernest "Tony" Marsh (born July 20, 1931 Stourbridge , † May 7, 2009 in Petersfield ) was a British automobile racing driver .

Career

Anthony Marsh raced everything that had four wheels in the early 1950s. He competed in rallies , participated in hill climbs and drove circuit races. He won the British Hill Climbing Championship three times in the 1950s.

In 1957 he bought a Formula 2 - Cooper T43 . With the little Cooper he dominated Formula Libre in Great Britain and made his debut in the drivers' world championship at the German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring . Marsh finished fourth in the Formula 2 classification and, five laps behind Juan Manuel Fangio in a Maserati 250F, fifteenth overall. In 1958, Marsh replaced the T43 with a T45 , which he raced in until the end of the decade.

In 1961, now with a Lotus 18 , Marsh was successful again in hill climbs. After a few failures in a BRM racing car, Marsh won three more British hill-climbing championships in a 4.3-liter Marsh Oldsmobile in the 1960s.

Marsh, who drove a Lotus Elite together with John Wagstaff in the 1960 Le Mans 24-hour race , is the most successful British hill climber in history with his six titles (1955, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967).

In the 1960s and 1970s he was also the English co-commentator for Jochen Luck at the Nürburgring .

Marsh died in May 2009, aged 77, after being hospitalized with difficulty breathing shortly before that.

statistics

Statistics in the automobile world championship

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1957	Ridgeway management	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1958	Tony Marsh	Cooper T45	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
1961	Tony Marsh	Lotus 18	Climax 1.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				4th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11
1957
						15th
1958
								8th
1961
			DNS		DNF	15th

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
1960	Team elite	Lotus Elite MK14	John Wagstaff	Rank 14

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5
1959	lotus	Lotus 17	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM	RTT
							11
1960	Team elite	Lotus Elite	BUA	SEB	TAR	ONLY	LEM
							14th

literature

• Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .

Web links

• Tony Marsh at Racing Sports Cars