Tim Schenken

Tim Schenken is an Australian automobile old driver born the September 26th 1943 in Gordon. Schenken in particular disputed 34 Grands Prix of Formule 1 between 1970 and 1974. It registered a total of 7 points, its best result in race being one 3rd place taken down at the time of the GP of Austria 1971.

Biography

Thanks to more than forty successes in Formula Ford, Tim Schenken is opened up into large the doors of the stable Brabham of Formule 3 in 1969. As of 1970, it passes in Formule 2, always within Brabham, and takes down three podiums (3rd in Pau and Mantorp Park and 2nd in Castellet). Even if he does not manage to hang victory, he succeeds in convincing his owner and compatriot to engage it in championship of the world of Formula 1. Jack Brabham thus engages an additional BT33 for Schenken with the GP of Great Britain 1970 but the single-seater is not ready in time and Schenken continuous to corrode its brake in F2.

It makes finally its beginnings in the discipline queen but in the stable Williams starting from the GP of Austria where it replaces Brian Redman at the wheel of the De Tomaso 505. He manages to qualify himself for each handle where he is committed but always in bottom of grid, which is hardly astonishing taking into account the thin potential of the 505. Its engine betrays it with the 25e turn of the GP of Austria then with 17th of the GP following to Italy. It receives the flag with checkerworks at the time of the Canadian test but is first of not-classified with 11 turns of the winner Jacky Ickx. It is again constrained with the abandonment on mechanical breakdown at the time its ultimate departure of the season with Watkins Glen.

In spite of beginnings in half-tone (always qualified but ever classified), it is always supervised closely by Jack Brabham which has just hung up again the gloves and is devoted from now on fully to the direction of its racing stable. As of the second GP of the season 1971, in Spain, Schenken is called by Brabham and becomes the fellow-member of Graham Hill. It has only one old BT33 while the British champion controls the new BT34. The first four tests are average enough for Tim which is qualified in bottom of grid and obtains one 9th place for better result. The catch takes place with the GP of Great Britain where he manages to qualify himself in 7th place before giving up on mechanical cause. At the time of the following test, in Nurburgring, it as well as possible exploits its 9th place on the grid to register its first point by finishing 6th race. But the best is to be come since with the following Grand Prix, disputed in Austria, it takes down a beautiful 7th qualificative place which it transforms into podium behind OJ Siffert and Emerson Fittipaldi. Unfortunately, these good performances will be the last of the season because Schenken does not finish any of the three last tests of the year. The Australian one registered the totality of the points of its stable but chooses not to continue with Brabham and engages in another pilot-manufacturer John Surtees of which it is the third season Formulates 1 of them.

In 1972, it replaces Rolf Stommelen at the wheel of Surtees TS9B conceived by Surtees and Peter Connew. The TS9B is only one modest evolution of the TS9 of the former season which suffered from big problems of handling: Stommelen was dismissed besides by Surtees because he complained openly about the design defects of his single-seater. As Connew left the team to develop her own machine and its own stable Capricorn, the single-seater does not start the season with the best assets. Schenken makes team with Andrea de Adamich and Mike Hailwood which, as its owner knew glory in motorcycle racing before passing to F1. As of the first GP of the season, in Argentina, Tim is classified 5th but it will not register any more any point of all the season in spite of beautiful qualifications (5th in France and Great Britain). It is put under the extinguisher by its fellow-members who carry out each one a podium and Surtees does not renew its contract and Carlos Pace for 1973 prefers to him.

Without wheel at the beginning of season, Tim Schenken goes down again in Formule 2 within Rondel Racing of Ron Dennis. It carries out good performances and is contacted by Ferrari which engages it on some tests of Sport scars. It then gains the 1.000 km of Buenos-Surfaces then the 1.000 kilometers of Nürburgring as a crew with Ronnie Peterson. At the end of the season, it is called by Frank Williams to carry out a measuring rod in Canada but Iso-Marlboro IR only enables him to be classified in the 14th final place.

Schenken thinks that it has roasted its last cartridges in F1 then takes again hope when its owner in F2 Ron Dennis plans to become manufacturer with whole share and has just passed in F1 in 1974. But, although Dennis ordered a study of frame of F1 to engineer Ray Jessop, Rondel Racing, for lack of budget, remains in Formula 2 (and will not reach the F 1 qu' in 1980 with the repurchase of Mc Laren. The RJ 02 of Jessop as for it will be finally committed with the championship of the world 1974 under the name of Token F1). Schenken succeeds in however taking down in-extremis a wheel Formulates of them 1 per 1974 thanks to its former owner of the time of Brabham, Ron Tauranac. In 1974, Peter Agg entrusts to Tauranac the design Trojan T103 engaged in championship of the world and Tauranac, the former originator of Brabham suggests in Agg entrusting the single-seater to its Schenken compatriot.

The single-seater is not ready for the beginning of the season and makes its appearance in GP at the time of the fourth sleeve disputed in Spain on the circuit of Jarama. Shenken is qualified in 25e and last position then is constrained with the abandonment following a slew-round (it will be classified 14th). The GP of Belgium is more satisfactory and Schenken made good impression since he manages to rise on the 23e place of the grid and finishes in honest a 10th place. In Monaco, the efforts of Schenken to take down its qualification (in bottom of grid) are reduced to nothing as of the first hectometers of race when it is constrained, like 6 other competitors, with the abandonment following the fixing between Jean-Pierre Beltoise and Denny Hulme. Schenken does not dispute the following GP in Sweden because Tauranac needs the frame to make there modifications, not very effective D `elsewhere because Shenken does not take down its ticket for the Grand Prix of the Netherlands. After a new passage by the dispensary of Tauranac (and the dead end on the French test), Schenken disputes the GP of Great Britain and manages to take down the last qualificative place (but traverses only some turns in race following a breaking of suspension). The Trojan does not make it possible Schenken to be qualified in Germany but the Australian one is qualified in 25e place in Austria where it is classified 10th with four turns of the winner Carlos Reutemann. The Grand Prix of Italy with Monza sees 33 pilots disputing the 25 qualificative places and once again Schenken is spit in the gloves and is qualified in 20th place. In race its efforts are again ruined by an abandonment at the beginning of the test following a problem of gear box. Disappointed by the results of its stable, Agg decides not to make displacement on the other side of the Atlantic to dispute the two last tests of the season.

Tim Schenken takes down a place within the TEAM Lotus to take part in the GP of the United States but is not able to be done with the control of Lotus 76 and, although qualified in 27e and last position, it does not take the departure of the test and chooses to cease its career in F1 to direct itself towards the Sport-Prototypes.

It runs then on Porsche and gains once again the 1.000 kilometers of Nürburgring with Rolf Stommelen and Toine Hezemans. It becomes pilot official Jaguar in European championship TRUSTED WP then hangs up again its gloves and turns over to Australia where it is delegated within the Australian Federation of automobile sport (MFA).

Results in championship of the world of F1

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