(1922-05-12)12 May 1922 Dovercourt, Essex, England,
Died
3 June 2012(2012-06-03) (aged 90) Monaco
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality
British
Active years
1952–1962
Teams
Ferrari, Connaught, Maserati, BRM, Vanwall, Cooper, Aston Martin, Lola
Entries
50 (47 starts)
Championships
0
Wins
0
Podiums
2
Career points
19
Pole positions
0
Fastest laps
0
First entry
1952 British Grand Prix
Last entry
1962 South African Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years
1953–1963
Teams
Aston Martin Ltd., David Brown Racing Dept., Border Reivers, Essex Racing Team, Briggs Cunningham
Best finish
1st (1959)
Class wins
2 (1959 & 1962)
Roy Francesco Salvadori (12 May 1922 – 3 June 2012) was a British racing driver and team manager. He was born in Dovercourt, Essex, to parents of Italian descent.[1][2] He graduated to Formula One by 1952 and competed regularly until 1962 for a succession of teams including Cooper, Vanwall, BRM, Aston Martin and Connaught. Also a competitor in other formulae, he won the 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans in an Aston Martin with co-driver Carroll Shelby.
In 47 starts he achieved two F1 Championship podium finishes: third place at the 1958 British Grand Prix and second place at that year's German Grand Prix, and won non-championship races in Australia, New Zealand and England. In 1961 he was lying second in the United States Grand Prix when his Cooper's engine failed. At the end of 1962 he retired from F1, and stopped racing altogether a couple of years later to concentrate on the motor trade. He returned to the sport in 1966 to manage the Cooper-Maserati squad for two seasons, and eventually retired to Monaco.
^"Roy Salvadori". The Telegraph. 6 June 2012. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
^Henry, Alan (6 June 2012). "Roy Salvadori obituary". The Guardian. Retrieved 2 June 2016.
Roy Francesco Salvadori (12 May 1922 – 3 June 2012) was a British racing driver and team manager. He was born in Dovercourt, Essex, to parents of Italian...
factory team effort at Silverstone on 17 July with Peter Collins and RoySalvadori, all three cars taking the three top places. In August 1954, Shelby...
its competitors, with Carroll Shelby and RoySalvadori qualifying 10th and 13th respectively out of 15. Salvadori retired from the race in the early laps...
World Championship debut until the 1959 Dutch Grand Prix, driven by RoySalvadori and Carroll Shelby. However, its long gestation period meant that by...
entered Cooper, ahead of Graham Hill in a works BRM, Surtees's teammate RoySalvadori in a Cooper and Moss in a Rob Walker-entered Lotus. On the same day...
Cliff Allison with Pete Lovely. Cooper signed Masten Gregory to replace RoySalvadori, who found a part-time seat at the new Aston Martin works team. He was...
Lewis-Evans) opposed by privately entered Maserati 250Fs driven by RoySalvadori and Bruce Halford and a selection of independents. Archie won from Lewis-Evans...
season. They signed future champion Jack Brabham and ex-Gilby driver RoySalvadori, among others. Three rounds on the provisional calendar were cancelled...
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which led him to oversee a famous 1–2 in 1959 24 Hours of Le Mans, when RoySalvadori and Carroll Shelby led home Maurice Trintignant and Paul Frère. The...
faster and thus getting to race. Aston Martin showed up with DBR5s for RoySalvadori and Maurice Trintignant. At the same time, motorcycle ace John Surtees...
Nürburgring winners Stirling Moss/Jack Fairman alongside the F1 team driver RoySalvadori with ex-chicken farmer, Texan Carroll Shelby, and Maurice Trintignant/Paul...
Farley Mowat, Canadian environmentalist and author (d. 2014) 1922 – RoySalvadori, English racing driver and manager (d. 2012) 1924 – Tony Hancock, English...
Hawthorn on lap 16. Both BRMs then sadly retired, as did fellow Brit Salvadori, who was running second at one stage, and Collins. When Moss pitted for...
form and the car recorded its first finish, with a second place for RoySalvadori at the British Empire Trophy, followed by another second place at the...
Snetterton RoySalvadori III London Trophy Crystal Palace Mike Hawthorn III Daily Record Trophy Charterhall Bob Gerard II Daily Telegraph Trophy Aintree Roy Salvadori...
equally modified Aston Martin DBR, with the previous year's winner RoySalvadori this year partnered with rising star Jim Clark. The Aston Martin that...
crowd of 120,000 witnessed a trio of British drivers on the podium with RoySalvadori coming home third in one of John Cooper's Coventry-Climax rear-engined...
caused the death of Brazilian driver Christian Heins and bad injuries to RoySalvadori and Jean-Pierre Manzon. This was the first win for a mid- or rear-engined...
Jackie Oliver Jonathan Palmer Jolyon Palmer Tom Pryce Brian Redman RoySalvadori Mike Spence Will Stevens Trevor Taylor Derek Warwick John Watson Ken...
2.0 L6 D David Murray 5 G. Caprara Ferrari 500 Ferrari 500 2.0 L4 D RoySalvadori 5 Tony Crook Frazer-Nash-BMW 421 BMW 328 2.0 L6 D Tony Crook 5 Marcel...
Ann Abrams, American producer, author, and academic (b. 1942) 2012 – RoySalvadori, English racing driver and manager (b. 1922) 2012 – Brian Talboys, New...
his son Keith to drive, having previously entered a Maserati 250F for RoySalvadori and Ivor Bueb and also a Cooper for Greene Jr. Keith Greene later became...
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