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Unlike 1953, many of the top European teams travelled to Northern Ireland from mainland Europe. Scuderia Ferrari, who could win the World Championship on the streets of County Antrim, entered two Ferrari 750 Monzas for the Le Mans winners José Froilán González and Maurice Trintignant , back-up by Mike Hawthorn and Umberto Maglioli .
None of the leading works teams made the trip across to Northern Ireland from mainland Europe. However, from England, the two works teams of Jaguar Cars Ltd. and Aston Martin took part. The team from Coventry arrived with three cars, Jaguar C-Types for the all British pairings of Tony Rolt / Duncan Hamilton , Stirling Moss / Peter Walker , and ...
The 1955 RAC Tourist Trophy took place on 17 September, on the roads around Dundrod, (County Antrim, Northern Ireland).It was also the fifth round of the F.I.A. World Sports Car Championship, however it was the first championship race following the horrendous tragedy at Le Mans.
The winners has been decided by the disqualification of drivers on three occasions, in 2010 to the Nissan pair of Jamie Campbell-Walter and Warren Hughes after the Aston Martin Young Driver AMR pair of Darren Turner and Tomáš Enge lost the victory due to excess wear on their car's plank, [19] in 2016 when Audi's Marcel Fässler, André ...
His first major international race victory came on the eve of his 21st birthday at the wheel of a Jaguar XK120 in the 1950 RAC Tourist Trophy in Northern Ireland. [17] He went on to win the race six more times, in 1951 (with a Jaguar C-Type ), 1955 (with a Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR ), 1958 and 1959 (with an Aston Martin DBR1 ), and 1960 and 1961 ...
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Aston Martin Ltd. Tony Brooks Maurice Trintignant: Aston Martin DBR1/300: Aston Martin 3.0L S6 173 Gearbox (15hr) DNF S1.1 38 Team Lotus Engineering: Innes Ireland Mike Taylor: Lotus 11: Coventry Climax FWA 1098cc S4: 162 Electrics (20hr) DNF S3.0 1 F. Godia-Sales (private entrant) Francisco "Chico" Godia-Sales Jo Bonnier: Maserati 300 S ...