William Bradley (racing driver)

William Mark Campbell Bradley (born October 21, 1931 , † August 12, 2000 ) was a British racing driver .

Career

William Bradley was a successful sports and touring car driver in the 1960s . In his career he celebrated two overall and five class wins. He was particularly successful at racing events in Great Britain. In 1965 he won a national sports car race at Brands Hatch on a Triumph Spitfire and one in Dublin's Phoenix Park in 1968 in a Porsche 906 .

His greatest international successes were second place, together with Richard Attwood in a Porsche 906, in the 500 km race in Zeltweg in 1967 and third place in the 6-hour race in Vila Real in 1969 .

He competed twice in the Le Mans 24-hour race . Once he was able to place himself with 24th place in 1964 .

statistics

Le Mans results

year	team	vehicle	Teammate	placement	Failure reason
1964	Donald Healey Motor Company	Austin-Healey Sprite Sebring	Clive Baker	Rank 24
1965	Standard Triumph Ltd.	Triumph Spitfire	Peter Bolton	failure	Engine failure

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
1964	Donald Healey Healey Motor Peter Sutcliffe Triumph	Austin-Healey Sprite Jaguar E-Type Triumph Spitfire	DAY	SEB	TAR	MON	SPA	CON	ONLY	ROS	LEM	REI	FRE	CCE	RTT	SIM	ONLY	MON	TDF	BRI	BRI	PAR
									29		24	14th							DNF
1965	William Bradley Standard Motor Company Peter Sutcliffe	Triumph Spitfire Ferrari 250 GTO	DAY	SEB	BOL	MON	MON	RTT	TAR	SPA	ONLY	MUG	ROS	LEM	REI	BOZ	FRE	CCE	OVI	ONLY	BRI	BRI
											DNF			DNF	DNF
1966	William Bradley	Triumph Spitfire	DAY	SEB	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	MUG	CCE	HOK	SIM	ONLY	ZEL
								DNF
1967	Midland Racing	Porsche 906	DAY	SEB	MON	SPA	TAR	ONLY	LEM	HOK	MUG	BRH	CCE	ZEL	OVI	ONLY
												17th		2
1968	William Bradley Vic Elford	Porsche 906 Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	ONLY	SPA	WAT	ZEL	LEM
					12	9		15th	7th		DNF
1969	William Bradley	Porsche 910	DAY	SEB	BRH	MON	TAR	SPA	ONLY	LEM	WAT	ZEL
								12	12			11

literature

• Christian Moity, Jean-Marc Teissèdre, Alain Bienvenu: 24 heures du Mans, 1923–1992. Éditions d'Art, Besançon 1992, ISBN 2-909-413-06-3 .

Web links

• William Bradley at Racing Sports Cars

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Brands Hatch sports car race 1965
2. ^ Sports car race Phoenix Park 1968
3. ↑ 500 km race from Zeltweg 1967
4. ↑ 5-hour race at Vila Real in 1969