KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE SINCE 1999
Vic Wilson
14/4/1931 - 14/1/2002
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Born in Hull and raised in South Africa, Wilson participated in two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, the 1960 Italian Grand Prix at Monza and the 1966 Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps.
Vic Wilson died 19 years ago, he was 71 , He would have been 90.
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Vic was born in England, but spent his teens living in South Africa. He began racing in Rhodesia in the late fifties, finding success with a variety of MGs and then a Lotus XI. Plans to race a Lotus in England went awry when the car was written off, but he then approached Dick Gibson, who was languishing in hospital after recently crashing his almost new Cooper. Having repaired the machine, Wilson went racing along with Bruce Halford and Keith Ballisat, competing in the boycotted Italian GP of 1960.Settling in Yorkshire, Vic did not race at all between 1961 and 1963, but at the behest of his wealthy cousin Bernard White he returned late in 1964, before a busy season racing a Lotus 30 and a Ferrari 250LM in 1965.
Team Chamaco Collect then planned a full season of Grands Prix in 1966 with a couple of BRMs, but after Vic took a distant fourth at the Syracuse GP and practised briefly at Spa Bob Bondurant became the team's sole driver, leaving Wilson in the cold.
(c) 'Who is Who' by Steve Small, 2000
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Henry Fournier 1871 - 1919 -
Joie Chitwood 1912 - 1988 -
Raymond Bunn 1920 -
Dick Brooks 1942 - 2006 -
Ferfried von Hohenzollern 1943
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Brian Gubby 1934
The son of a jockey, Brian started racing in 1959 with an Austin A30. He raced saloon cars and sports cars before aquiring a Lotus 11, a Lotus 18 and an Ausper T4 Formula Junior. In 1965 he raced Lotus 24 Coventry Climax in Formula Libre and non-championship F1 races. After racing he turned to training race horses.
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Bruce Halford 1931 - 2001
Halford bought the ex-Bira Maserati 250F and raced mainly on the non-championship European F1 circuit. Later he drove an F2 Lotus before retiring in the early 1960s. He returned to the circuits in the 1970s racing a Lotus 16 in historic events. -
Tony Marsh 1931 - 2009
British hillclimb ace who raced Lotus and BRM in the World Drivers Championship when it was run to F2 regs. -
Ken Kavanagh 1923
Very successful Norton and Moto-Guzzi motor cycle racer, who dabbled briefly in four-wheeled competition racing a Maserati 250F in 1958. -
Don Beauman 1928 - 1955
A popular figure on the national racing scene, Beauman was killed when he crashed his ex-Hawthorn Riley during the Leinster Trophy race in Wicklow, Republic of Ireland.