Dudley Benjafield

Dudley Benjafield ( born August 6 1887 in London Borough of Enfield; † 20 January 1957) was a British racing driver and Baketeriologe.

Dudley Benjafield studied medicine at the University of London in 1912 and his Doctor of General Medicine. Benjafield specialized in bacteriology and served in the First World War as a doctor in the British Army in Egypt. In 1918 he worked in the UK intensively on the containment of the Spanish flu.

Benjafield interested from his youth for motorsports and began to drive the early 1920s, the race itself. Initial successes earned him a contract for work at Bentley. Seven times he was in the 24- hour race at Le Mans at the start. The biggest success was the overall win in 1927, he secured together with Sammy Davis. This is despite the Bentley 3 Litre was involved after a mass accident in Davis, was only makeshift repairs. The team benefited but from the failure of the Ariès by Jean Chassagne, who just before the end of the race after problems with the ignition distributor ausschied.1929 he came again on the podium, as he again drove a Bentley along with the Frenchman André d' Erlanger and third in the overall classification was.

Benjafield drove to 1936 race car and founded the British Racing Drivers Club. He died in 1957.

Le Mans results

  • Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans
  • Racer ( UK )
  • Born in 1887
  • Died in 1957
  • Man
  • Briton
  • English
1918 flu pandemic 1927 24 Hours of Le Mans S. C. H. "Sammy" Davis 1929 24 Hours of Le Mans 1925 24 Hours of Le Mans 1926 24 Hours of Le Mans 1928 24 Hours of Le Mans Frank Clement (racing driver) France 1930 24 Hours of Le Mans 1935 24 Hours of Le Mans
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