Peter Ashdown

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Peter Ashdown
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Nationality  Flag of the United Kingdom British
Formula One World Championship career
Active years 1959
Teams non-works Cooper
Races 1
Championships 0
Wins 0
Podium finishes    0
Career points 0
Pole positions 0
Fastest laps 0
First race 1959 British Grand Prix
Last race 1959 British Grand Prix

Peter Hawthorn Ashdown (born 16 October 1934, Danbury, Essex)[1] is a former motor racing driver. He drove in a single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, racing a Cooper.

Prior to Formula One, he was one of the leaders of the British Formula Junior scene, but an accident at Rouen-Les-Essarts in 1958, in which he broke his collarbone, considerably hampered his career.[2] He continued racing in a Formula 2 Cooper-Climax entered by Alan Brown at the 1959 British Grand Prix at Aintree. From there he drove a Formula Junior Lola and many small-engined sports cars, winning his class in the 1960 and 1962 1000km Nürburgring. He retired in 1962.


[edit] Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 WDC Points
1959 Equipe Alan Brown Cooper T45 (F2) Climax
Straight-4
MON
500
NED
FRA
GBR
12
GER
POR
ITA
USA
- 0

[edit] References

  1. ^ Drivers: Peter Ashdown. ChicaneF1.com. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.
  2. ^ Driver: Ashdown, Peter. Autocourse Grand Prix Archive. Retrieved on 2007-11-27.


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