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Database start - Driver search - Tony Rolt


 
Tony Rolt, Great Britain
1918-10-16 - 2008-02-06
F1 Career: British 1950, 53 & 55

  Races
Wins
Pole
Podiums
FastLaps
Points
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0
0
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% Podiums
% FastLap
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Rolt was an Army officer during WWII in the rifle brigade. He was captured at Calais in 1940 and escaped seven times before eventually being sent to Castle Colditz.
He was one of the masterminds behind the famous plan to build an escape glider, but the prison was liberated before the aircraft was completed.
Tony was the last remaining survivor from the first world championship Grand Prix, the British GP 1950. He was also the last remaining member of the British Racing Drivers' Club to have been elected before the war.
After the war, he was a part of Dixon Rolt Developments, which, among other projects, developed four-wheel drive systems, built the Jensen FF road car 1966, the Ferguson P99 which became the only four-wheel drive car to win an F1 race, driven by Stirling Moss at the Oulton Park Gold Cup in 1961.

Year Plac Points Nr / Team / Car Wins 2:nd 3:rd Poles FastL Races Ret Notes
1955 - 0 Connaught B Type 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 RRC Walker Racing
1953 - 0 Connaught A Type 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 RRC Walker Racing
1950 - 0 ERA E Type 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 R, Peter Walker

Non F1

Year Series Result Team/Car Notes
1956 24h LeMans ret Jaguar D-type .
1955 24h LeMans ret Jaguar D-type .
. Formula 2 & Libre events . Walker-Connaught .
. Silverstone International 3rd Jaguar D-type .
. Glover Trophy ret Connaught B .
1954 24h LeMans 2nd Jaguar D-Type .
. 12h Reims 2nd Jaguar D-Type .
. August Bank Holiday Cup 3rd Connaught A-Lea Francis A Type .
. BRDC Int. Trophy 7th Connaught A .
. Lavant Cup 7th Connaught A .
. Tourist Trophy ret Jaguar D-Type .
1953 24h LeMans winner Jaguar C-Type .
. Mille Miglia ret Jaguar C-type .
. Formula 2 & Libre events . Walker-Connaught .
. Bristol MC & LCC Trophy winner Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Coronation Trophy winner Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Snetterton Coronation Trophy winner Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. United States Air Force Trophy winner Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Mid-Cheshire MC Formula 2 Race winner Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Crystal Palace Trophy winner Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Chichester Cup 2nd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. London Trophy 2nd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Madgwick Cup 3rd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. AMOC Trophy 3rd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Lavant Cup 3rd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Daily Express Int. Trophy 3rd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Glover Trophy 5th Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. Newcastle Journal Trophy 5th Connaught A-Lea Francis .
. BRDC International Trophy 3rd Connaught A-Lea Francis .
1952 24h LeMans ret Jaguar C-type .
. BRDC Int. Trophy 2nd HWM 52 .
. Richmond Trophy dns Delage 15-S8 .
1951 24h LeMans 6th Nash Healey Sport Coupe .
. Goodwood Trophy 3rd Delage 15-S8 .
. Woodcote Cup 3rd Delage 15-S8 .
. BRDC Int. Trophy 7th Delage 15-S8 .
1950 24h LeMans 4th Nash Healey .
. British Empire Trophy 7th Delage 15-S8 .
. Glover Trophy ret Delage 15-S8 .
1948 Zandvoort GP 2nd Aitken Alfa-Romeo .
. 24h Spa ret Aston Martin Speed Model .
. 12h Spa ret Alta .
1947 British Empire Trophy ret Aitken Alfa-Romeo .
1939 British Empire Trophy winner ERA B .
1937 British Empire Trophy at Donington winner . .
. Coronation Trophy winner Triumph Dolomite .
. 12h Donington dnf Triumph .
1936 24h Spa 11th Triumph Gloria Vitesse .