Tony Settember
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Automobile world championship | |||||||||
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First start: | 1962 British Grand Prix | ||||||||
Last start: | 1963 German Grand Prix | ||||||||
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1962 Emeryson Cars 1963 Scirocco Powell Racing Cars | |||||||||
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World Cup balance: | no World Cup placement | ||||||||
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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. |
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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 |
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1962 |
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11 | DNF | |||||||||
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DNF | DNF | DNF | DNF | DNQ |
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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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Chevrolet Corvette C2 |
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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 |
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1962 | Scirocco Powell | Chevrolet Corvette |
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1966 | Ecurie Cinquante Cinq | Shelby Cobra |
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DNF | DNF | DNF |
literature
- Steve Small: Grand Prix Who's Who. 3rd edition. Travel Publishing, Reading 2000, ISBN 1-902007-46-8 .
Web links
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Settember, Tony |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Settember, Anthony Frank |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American racing car driver |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 10, 1926 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Manila |
DATE OF DEATH | May 4, 2014 |
Place of death | Reno , Nevada |