Tony Settember

Tony Settember

Nation:	United Kingdom
Automobile world championship
First start:	1962 British Grand Prix
Last start:	1963 German Grand Prix
Constructors
1962  Emeryson Cars 1963 Scirocco Powell Racing Cars
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 6th - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Anthony Frank "Tony" Settember (born July 10, 1926 in Manila , Philippines ; † May 4, 2014 in Reno , Nevada ) was an American racing car driver .

Career

Before the Californian came to Europe, he drove a Corvette and a Mercedes-Benz 300 SL sports car race in the USA. In Italy he won the Naples Grand Prix on a Maserati in the late 1950s .

For the 1962 season , Settember persuaded his wealthy friend Hugh Powell to invest money in the British Emeryson team to compete in Formula 1 . The Emeryson with the 4-cylinder Climax engine was a simple racing car, but Settember and his teammate John Campbell-Jones had problems setting the car up properly.

Settember made his debut in the automobile world championship at the 1962 British Grand Prix . Four laps behind the winner Jim Clark in the Lotus 25 , he finished eleventh. The team soon quarreled and the team was disbanded before the end of the season.

Powell and Settember reorganized themselves and started in 1963 as the Scirocco Powell Racing Cars team. The new chassis was developed by Hugh-Jones Aiden based on the construction of Paul Emery built when driving a used V8 engine of BRM The car was not competitive. Settember had no chance in the world championship, only at the Austrian Grand Prix, which was not part of the world championship , he was able to finish second.

At the end of the season, Powell also retired and Settember turned his back on Europe to work in the USA on the continuation of his career. He was racing sports cars again; first with a Lotus 23 , later with a Lotus 30 and an AC Cobra . At the beginning of the 1970s he entered the CanAm series with a Lola T70 , but only rarely achieved success and soon retired from racing.

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.
1962	Emeryson Cars	Emeryson Mk2	Climax 1.5 L4	2	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
1963	Scirocco Powell	Scirocco 01	BRM 1.5 V8	4th	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
total				6th	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1962
					11		DNF
1963
		DNF		DNF	DNF	DNF	DNQ

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
1962	Scirocco Powell Racing Cars	Chevrolet Corvette C2	John Turner	failure	Gearbox damage

Individual results in the sports car world championship

season	team	race car	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th
1962	Scirocco Powell	Chevrolet Corvette	DAY	SEB	SEB	MAY	TAR	BER	ONLY	LEM	TAV	CCA	RTT	ONLY	BRI	BRI	PAR
										DNF
1966	Ecurie Cinquante Cinq	Shelby Cobra	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
						DNF	DNF	DNF

literature

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

Web links

Commons : Tony Settember  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

• Tony Settember at Racing Sport Cars

Individual evidence

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