Tony Marsh (racing driver)
Nation: | United Kingdom | ||||||||
Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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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 | ||||||||
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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. |
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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 |
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1957 | |||||||||||
15th | |||||||||||
1958 | |||||||||||
8th | |||||||||||
1961 | |||||||||||
DNS | DNF | 15th |
Legend | ||
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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 |
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() | Streak results | |
underlined | Leader in the overall standings |
Le Mans results
year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
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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 |
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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
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Marsh, Tony |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Marsh, Anthony Ernest (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1931 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Stourbridge , West Midlands , England |
DATE OF DEATH | May 7, 2009 |
Place of death | Petersfield , Hampshire , England |