Tony Marsh (racing driver)

Ernest Anthony "Tony" Marsh (* July 20, 1931 Stourbridge; † 7 May 2009 Petersfield ) was a British racing driver.

Anthony Marsh drove in the early 1950s, with all the race, which had four wheels. He denied rallies, participated in uphill races and ran track races. He won three times the British Hillclimb Championship in the 1950s.

In 1957 he bought a Formula 2 Cooper T43. With the small Cooper, he dominated the Formula Libre in the UK and made ​​his debut in the drivers' world championship Grand Prix of Germany at the Nürburgring. Marsh finished fourth in the Formula 2 standings and with five laps behind Juan Manuel Fangio in the Maserati 250F Fifteenth overall. 1958 Marsh replaced by the T43 a T45, with whom he denied Race to the end of the decade.

1961, now with a Lotus 18, Marsh was again successful in hillclimb. After several failures in a BRM racing car to Marsh took in the 1960s to a 4.3 -liter Marsh Oldsmobile three other British hill championships.

Marsh, the 24 Hours of Le Mans together with John Wagstaff drove a 1960 Lotus Elite is, with its six titles ( 1955, 1956, 1957, 1965, 1966, 1967) the most successful British hill racer in history.

In the 1960s and 1970s, he was also the English co-commentator by Jochen Luck at the Nürburgring.

Marsh died in May 2009 at the age of 77 years after he was briefly brought before with respiratory problems to the hospital.

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