(1935-06-10)10 June 1935 Peckham, London, England[1]
Died
13 March 2022(2022-03-13) (aged 86)
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality
British
Active years
1968–1969, 1971
Teams
Cooper, McLaren, BRM
Entries
13
Championships
0
Wins
0
Podiums
0
Career points
8
Pole positions
0
Fastest laps
0
First entry
1968 French Grand Prix
Last entry
1971 German Grand Prix
24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years
1967–1974, 1983
Teams
Porsche System Porsche Salzburg Martini Racing Autodelta SpA Automobiles Charles Pozzi Robert Buchet Rondeau
Best finish
6th (1973)
Class wins
2 (1967, 1973)
Victor Henry Elford (10 June 1935 – 13 March 2022) was an English sports car racing, rallying, and Formula One driver. He participated in 13 World Championship F1 Grands Prix, debuting on 7 July 1968. He scored a total of 8 championship points.
Nicknamed "Quick Vic" by his peers Elford was mainly a famous sports car competitor as well as a successful rally driver, associated often with Porsche.
^"Database - Vic Elford". Motor Sport. Retrieved 3 November 2017.
"Quick Vic" by his peers Elford was mainly a famous sports car competitor as well as a successful rally driver, associated often with Porsche. Elford started...
those races, but privateers used the 917K at the Nürburgring 1000 km, and VicElford drove a lap of the 44-mile Targa Florio course in the 917K at Ferdinand...
hillclimbing race in Germany. The team then hired Lucien Bianchi and VicElford. Jo Schlesser was signed by Honda to drive the experimental air-cooled...
the four-wheel drive Lotus, slowed down during the first lap and saw VicElford crashing into him and flying into the trees. The McLaren driver broke...
development, but Salzburg continued. Usually two cars were entered, for VicElford and Hans Herrmann. Salzburg operated the winning Porsche 908/3 in the...
the banking, his teammate Rolf Stommelen supported the #54 driven by VicElford/Jochen Neerpasch. When the #52 car of the longtime leaders Jo Siffert/Hans...
that entered a single car in 17 Formula One races in 1969 and 1970. VicElford and Ronnie Peterson drove for the team, the cars used being a Cooper T86...
and three works entries were at Le Mans in langheck (longtail) form for VicElford/Richard Attwood and Rolf Stommelen/Kurt Ahrens, with Herbert Linge in...
Wyer’s J.W. Automotive. Porsche entered a standard 906 for Ben Pon and VicElford, making his Le Mans debut, as well as French privateer Christian Poirot...
race for Cooper as a constructor and Maserati as an engine supplier, VicElford finishing seventh and last in a car entered by Colin Crabbe. Note: Only...
of 218-laps. Two laps further down in third was another 907 driven by VicElford and Jochen Neerpasch and fourth place went to another GT40, driven by...
blue), Kanie was partnered by Kiyoshi Misaki in the #6 (yellow), and VicElford was recruited to drive the #7 (green) entry, joined by Toshiaki Takahashi...
end needing constant attention. The A-bracket was persevered with by VicElford and David Seigle-Morris for the 1964 Tour de France Automobile, a 10-day...
International Racing Team Gijs van Lennep Porsche 917K S 5.0 397 1st 1st 1972 Autodelta SpA VicElford Alfa Romeo Tipo 33TT3 S 3.0 232 DNF DNF Source:...
race distance was shortened to 12 laps. Notable driver changes included VicElford replacing Pedro Rodríguez, who had been killed in a sports car race at...
failure in the banking, his teammate Rolf Stommelen supported the car of VicElford and Jochen Neerpasch.[clarification needed] When the car of the longtime...
picked up a number of ex-Porsche drivers for the three cars entered: VicElford/Helmut Marko, Rolf Stommelen/”Nanni” Galli and Nino Vaccarella/Andrea...
Rally Championship as a works team, running a 911 SC for Björn Waldegård and Vic Preston Jr. in the Safari Rally. The project did not continue past this one-off...
performance of the 928 to North America. The drivers Richard Attwood (GB), VicElford (GB), Howard Meister (USA) and Bob Hagestad (USA) were told to just "drive...
on the first lap; Brian Redman was badly injured after crashing), but VicElford did manage to set the fastest lap. The next race at the Nürburgring saw...
Wippermann, causing a crash that also took out VicElford, whose car flipped upside down and landed in the trees. Elford broke his arm in 3 places. In the race...
July 10, 2007. Keyser, Michael, The Speed Merchants, Mario Andretti, VicElford, retrieved July 6, 2018 Lawrence, Andrew (May 19, 2015). "After winning...
"Petroleum Museum | Chaparral 2J". "'Out of this world' Chaparral 2J fan car: VicElford on the machine that blew rivals away". November 2020. "1970 Chaparral...
Ferry Porsche and mother of company Technical Director Ferdinand Piëch. VicElford/Kurt Ahrens ran the 4.9-litre 917L, while Swiss-pairing Rico Steinemann/Dieter...
Anthony Davidson Paul di Resta Martin Donnelly Johnny Dumfries Guy Edwards VicElford Bob Evans Jack Fairman Ron Flockhart Peter Gethin Horace Gould Brian Henton...
(3 vols) – extensive history of Porsche. VicElford, "Reflections on a Golden Era of Motorsport" – covers Vic's rallying, single seater and mostly sports...
Meanwhile, the Colin Crabbe Antique Automobiles team bought the M7B and VicElford drove it at the Dutch Grand Prix, finishing 10th. McLaren was fourth,...