tubular ladder chassis supporting spaceframe with aluminium bodywork
Suspension (front)
Independent double wishbones with coilover shock-absorbers
Suspension (rear)
De Dion tube, torsion bars
Engine
Alta 2,470 cc (150.7 cu in) straight 4 naturally aspirated, front engine, longitudinally mounted
Transmission
4 speed manual preselector gearbox
Tyres
D
Competition history
Notable entrants
Connaught Engineering
Notable drivers
Tony Brooks Jack Fairman, Ron Flockhart
Debut
1955 British Grand Prix
Last event
1958 British Grand Prix
Races
Wins
Poles
F/Laps
7
0
0
0
Constructors' Championships
0 (Note that the Constructors' Championship was first awarded in 1958)
Drivers' Championships
0
n.b. Unless otherwise stated, all data refer to Formula One World Championship Grands Prix only.
The Connaught Type B was a racing car made by Connaught Engineering of England used in Formula One racing between 1955 and 1958. Although not a success in the Formula One World Championship, it became the first British car since 1924 to win a Continental European motor race when Tony Brooks won the non-championship 1955 Syracuse Grand Prix.
The ConnaughtTypeB was a racing car made by Connaught Engineering of England used in Formula One racing between 1955 and 1958. Although not a success...
their A, B, and C Type Formula 2 and Formula 1 Grand Prix Cars. They achieved 1 podium and scored 17 championship points. The name Connaught is a pun...
The ConnaughtType A was a Formula Two race car, designed, developed, and built by British manufacturer Connaught Engineering in 1950 and used until the...
One starts, usually at the British or Italian Grands Prix. He took a ConnaughtTypeB to two points finishes during the 1956 Formula One season, his only...
entered one World Championship Formula One Grand Prix (Monaco 1958) with a Connaught owned by Bernie Ecclestone, but failed to qualify, although he posted...
driver Stuart Lewis-Evans, and purchased two chassis from the disbanded Connaught Formula One team. Ecclestone even tried, unsuccessfully, to qualify a...
the British Grand Prix alongside fellow Connaught driver Kenneth Downing. During the development of the Connaught Racing Team based at Send in Surrey, McAlpine...
Prix in 1957 with a Connaught and a Maserati run by Gilby Engineering. The following year he raced Bernie Ecclestone's Connaught at Monaco, and drove...
Entry is usually by invitation, and this provides some leeway as to which type of vehicle can enter, usually resulting in a more varied event than usual...
race was won by Tony Brooks, in his first Formula One race, driving a ConnaughttypeB. This was the first international Grand Prix win for a British car...
debut on 17 July 1954 at the British Grand Prix. Racing in his private Connaught, he finished in 13th place, but retired from his last world championship...
The Connaught Rangers ("The Devil's Own") was an Irish line infantry regiment of the British Army formed by the amalgamation of the 88th Regiment of Foot...
the little circuit, and was won by British driver Leslie Marr in a ConnaughtTypeB. This was the third and last Formula One race to be held in Cornwall...
Hunt Cooper T23-Bristol +1 lap 6 Ret 36 Archie Scott-Brown Connaught Engineering ConnaughtTypeB-Alta 6 laps, oil pipe 2 DNA Paul Emery Emeryson Cars Emeryson-Alta...
Alta Straight-4 ARG MON 500 BEL FRA GBR Ret GER ITA NC 0 1958 B C Ecclestone ConnaughtTypeB Alta Straight-4 ARG MON DNQ NED 500 BEL FRA GBR GER POR ITA...
Scott-Brown Connaught Engineering ConnaughtTypeB Alta 7 Les Leston Connaught Engineering ConnaughtTypeB Alta 8 Bob Gerard Connaught Engineering Connaught Type...
Fairman Connaught Engineering ConnaughtTypeB-Alta 25 laps 8 7 140 Louis Rosier Ecurie Rosier Maserati 250F 25 laps 5 8 136 Mike Oliver Connaught Engineering...
Automobili OSCA F2 2 laps - magneto 11 DNA 16 Carroll Smith Carroll Smith Cooper T43-Climax - DNA 26 Geoff Richardson Geoff Richardson ConnaughtTypeB-Alta -...
McAlpine Connaught Engineering ConnaughtTypeB-Alta 43 laps - fuel system 12 Ret 19 Don Beauman Sir Jeremy Boles ConnaughtType A-Lea Francis 42 laps - oil...
works Connaught-Alta. This was the first Formula 1 race to be held at Brands Hatch. "I BRSCC Formula 1 Race". silhouet.com. Retrieved 2022-04-06. "I B.R.S...
Scuderia Centro Sud Maserati 250F 77 laps 7 5 8 Ivor Bueb Connaught Engineering ConnaughtTypeB-Alta 75 laps 10 6 12 Jack Brabham R.R.C. Walker Racing Team...
The Connaught Medical Research Laboratories was a non-commercial public health entity established by Dr. John G. FitzGerald in 1914 in Toronto to produce...
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