Ian Burgess

Ian Burgess ( born July 6, 1930 in London, † May 19, 2012 ) was a British racing driver.

Career

Ian Burgess made ​​in 1951 for some excitement in motorsport when he completely surprising the class won the Eifel race on the Nürburgring to 500 cc. In the pouring rain the then unknown Burgess established riders like Ken Wharton and Peter Whitehead left behind. But on this success he could not build and the next few years passed without further success.

The tide turned only when Burgess mid -1950s began to work for Cooper. He was an instructor of the Cooper Racing Driver School at Brands Hatch and drove the testing of Formula 2 Cooper.

In 1957 he strengthened his racing activities and was fourth in the Gold Cup at Oulton Park. He ran in 1958 a complete Formula 2 season for the British Atkins team. Victories in Crystal Palace and Snetterton followed fourth places in Montlhery and Reims. However, a serious accident on the AVUS in Berlin ended the season prematurely.

In 1959, he was back on the race tracks and drove for the Scuderia Centro Sud in Formula 1 His debut in the highest Monopostoklasse Burgess had already given the previous year. At the Grand Prix of Great Britain, he went with a factory Cooper T45 at the start, but by a different coupling from damage. Also the Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper put a one. However, the T51 was not driven by a Climax engine, but by a Maserati engine. The best finish of the year was the sixth place finish at the Grand Prix of Germany at the AVUS. Championship points, there was no placement for this, only the first five were awarded points for the championship standings.

Also in 1960, Burgess engaged with the Italian racing team in Formula 1 before moving in 1961 to Camoradi Racing and Lotus drove the 18. After a brief stint at Anglo American Equipe Burgess denied the last two of his 16 World Championship races in 1963 for the U.S. Scirocco team. As with the 14 previous races Burgess remained at his past performances in Formula 1 with no championship points.