Ian Burgess

Ian John Burgess is a British automobile old driver born the July 6th 1930 with London. It took part in 43 GP of Formule 1 including 15 cash for the championship of the world of 1957 with 1963. Ian Burgess forever registered points in championship of the world where its best qualification is one 11th place on the grid with the GP of Germany 1958 and its best result one 6th place at the time of the GP of Germany 1959.

Sporting biography

In the beginning, Ian Burgess is employed at Cooper, however, it is not pilot, nor even mechanic but employee. In 1957, it obtains its owners the authorization to control T43- Climax official at the time of the Test out-championship of BRDC International Trophy. Burgess is constrained with the abandonment with the 23e 35e turns on breaking of engine.

It disputes three tests out-championship in 1958 when Cooper engages it in championship of the world at the time of the GP of Great Britain 1958 where it controls T45. Pilot beginning, it succeeds in qualifying himself in 16th position on 20 leaving but is again constrained with the abandonment on breakdown of clutch.

Its services at the time of the GP of 1958 enable him to take down a wheel within the Scuderia Centro Southern which provides him uneCooper T51- Maserati. Burgess takes part in three tests of the championship of the world 1959 and, after two new abandonments on mechanical cause, receives finally the flag with checkerworks at the time of the Grand Prix of Germany which it finishes with the door of the points, in honourable a 6th place.

In 1960, always within the Scuderia Central Southern , it is engaged on four GP but lack its qualification at the time of the inaugural test Monegasque. It is 10th in France on its T51-Climax when its stable decides to return in Maserati, contestable choice since Burgess must give up, because of the engine, to the GP of Great Britain and of the United States.

In 1961, it joined the stable Camoradi International which engages of the Lotus 18. Burgess does not take part in the first tests of the championship (registered in reserve then not confirmed inscription) and begins with the GP from France where it is classified 14th, while having gained 10 places compared to its starting position. It reproduces the same race at the time of its national GP (14th with a 25e place in qualifications) and does a little better in Germany where it finishes 12th.

In 1962, it loses its place at Camoradi and finds Cooper within the Anglo-American Équipe which engages a special model, T59-Aiden drawn by Aiden-Jones Hugh while the other models are traditionally the work of Owen Maddock. Ian Burgess is qualified in 16th place for its national GP then in Germany (and is classified respectively 12th and 11th) but does not manage to be qualified in Italy.

In 1963, it joined the stable Scirocco-Powell of Hugh Powell which has just repurchased the material of the stable Emeryson, which itself had repurchased old frames Connaught of 1960. If Scirocco SP (driven by a BRM V8) carries out its first turns of wheels to the GP of Belgium, it is only with the GP of Great Britain that Powell can finally engage a second single-seater for Burgess which shoulders Tony Settember. Burgess is qualified for the two Grands Prix in which it takes part but never receives the flag with checkerworks and leaves Formula 1 at the end of the season.

Results in championship of the world of Formula 1

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