Tony Trimmer
Tony Trimmer (born January 24, 1943 in Maidenhead ) is a former British racing driver .
Monoposto
Tony Trimmer began his career in Formula 3 in the late 1960s . In 1969 he was overall runner-up in the European Formula 3 championship and a year later secured the title in the British championship . Both a Brabham BT28 and a Lotus 59 were used as vehicles in 1970 . In 1972 he drove a few more races in a Lotus 73 in the British championship and finished ninth at the end of the season.
In 1971 Trimmer switched to Formula 5000 . Until 1977 he regularly competed in races in this series, the overall ranking of which he won in 1977 on a Surtees TS19 . In the mid-1970s, Trimmer also tried Formula 1 ; there his activities were only partially successful. He was involved in the Maki project as a driver in the 1975 Formula 1 World Championship and the 1976 World Automobile Championship . In the world championship he could not qualify the Maki F101 once. However, he achieved the only countable result of the Japanese team in this racing form when he was thirteenth and last in the 1975 Swiss Grand Prix in Dijon-Prenois, which was not part of the World Championship . In 1977 and 1978 he tried twice as a private driver to qualify for a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Both times he failed in qualifying for the British Grand Prix . He proved that he was competitive as a driver in Formula 1 in 1978 when he finished third in a rainy BRDC International Trophy and won the overall classification of the first British Formula 1 championship of that year in a McLaren M23 . In the last year of this series, 1982, he only had to admit defeat in the overall standings to Jim Crawford .
Sports car
In 1979, Trimmer became a works driver at Dome and competed with their prototypes in the Le Mans 24-hour race . His teammate was Bob Evans . The two Brits retired early in the race with an overheated cylinder on the Dome Zero RL engine . In 1981 he drove the Ibec at Le Mans, but retired prematurely.
Trimmer drove his last car races in the British GT Championship in 1997 and ended his racing career at the end of the year.
statistics
Le Mans results
| year | team | vehicle | Teammate | placement | Failure reason |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 |
 Dome Co. Ltd.
|
Dome Zero RL |
 Bob Evans
|
failure | overheated cylinder |
| 1981 |
Ian Bracey
|
Ibec P6 |
Tiff Needell
|
failure | overheated cylinder |
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ DriverDB - website: Tony Trimmer. From: www.driverdb.com , accessed March 27, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Trimmer, Tony |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British racing car driver |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 24, 1943 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maidenhead |