Vic Wilson

Vic Wilson

Nation:	Great Britain
Automobile world championship
First start:	1960 Italian Grand Prix
Last start:	1960 Italian Grand Prix
Constructors
1960 Equipe Prideaux / Dick Gibson
statistics
World Cup balance:	no World Cup placement
Starts Victories Poles SR 1 - - -
World Cup points :	-
Podiums :	-
Leadership laps :	-

Victor "Vic" Wilson (born April 14, 1931 in Kingston-upon-Hull , † January 14, 2001 in Gerrards Cross ) was a British racing driver .

Career

Vic Wilson was born in England but spent the first twenty years of his life in South Africa . It began its career in the late 1950s and initially drove touring car races in Rhodesia and South Africa. His first vehicles were machine guns and a Lotus XI .

Wilson came to Europe and met Dick Gibson , who was also a racing driver. The two started racing together. In 1960, this friendship even led Wilson into Formula 1 . For his friend's team, Wilson drove the 1960 Italian Grand Prix in Monza . Wilson started the race with a Cooper T43 - Climax from 16th and last place on the grid and soon retired after a defect in the oil pump.

Wilson was never really serious about racing, although he was said to have talent. Between 1961 and 1963 he stayed away from the racetracks for three years. His cousin Bernhard White brought him back to motorsport. White had a racing team in the 1960s that started various racing series. Wilson drove a Ferrari 250LM in the sports car world championship.

In 1966 he was scheduled to be the regular driver of the team that wanted to compete in Formula 1 with vehicles from BRM under the name Chamaco Collect . Wilson drove the training for the Belgian Grand Prix in Spa-Francorchamps in 1966 , but was replaced by Bob Bondurant just before the race .

Wilson died in a car accident in 2001.

statistics

Statistics in Formula 1

general overview

season	team	chassis	engine	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points	WM-Pos.
1960	Equipe Prideaux	Cooper T43	Climax 1.5 L4	1	-	-	-	-	-	-	NC
total				1	-	-	-	-	-	-

Single results

season	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10
1960
									DNF
1966
		DNS

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	WD	withdrawn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

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	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
1965	Victor Wilson	Lotus 30	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
								DNF
1966	Team Chamaco Collect	Ferrari 250LM	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
			DNF

literature

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

Web links

• Vic Wilson at Racing Sports Cars