Ivor Bueb

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Ivor Bueb
Nationality 22px-Flag of the United Kingdom.png English
Years 1957 - 1959
Team(s) Connaught, Maserati, Lotus, Cooper
Races 6
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podiums 0
Poles 0
Fastest laps 0
First race 1957 Monaco Grand Prix
First win
Last win
Last race 1959 British Grand Prix


Ivor Bueb (June 6, 1923 - August 1, 1959) was a sports car racing and Formula One driver from England.

Bueb was in born in Cheltenham, Dulwich, London. He participated in 6 Grands Prix, debuting on May 19, 1957. He scored 0 championship points.

Bueb started racing seriously in a Formula 3 500cc Cooper in 1953, graduating to occasional starts in Grands Prix with a Connaught and a private Maserati. He is best known for sharing the winning Jaguar D-type with Mike Hawthorn in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, a success he repeated with Ron Flockhart in the Ecurie Ecosse car in 1957.

He died from injuries sustained when he crashed his British Racing Partnership Cooper-Borgward Formula Two car at Charade Circuit near Clermont-Ferrand, France.


Complete Formula One results

Yr Team 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Team
1957 Conn ARG MON IND FRA GBR DEU PES ITA       Mase
1958 Conn ARG MON DUT IND BEL FRA GBR DEU POR ITA MOR Lotu
1959 Coop MON IND DUT FRA GBR DEU POR ITA USA     Coop



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Two-time Henry Birkin ·

Ivor Bueb · Ron Flockhart · Jean-Pierre Jaussaud · Gérard Larrousse · JJ Lehto · Allan McNish · Manuel Reuter · André Rossignol · Raymond Sommer · Hans-Joachim Stuck · Gijs van Lennep · Jean-Pierre Wimille

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