Roy Salvadori was a Formula One driver from Britain. He participated in 48 grands prix, debuting on July 19, 1952. He achieved 2 podiums, and scored a total of 19 championship points. Formula One, abbreviated to F1 and also known as Grand Prix racing, is the highest class of single-seat open-wheel formula auto racing. ... July 19 is the 200th day (201st in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 165 days remaining. ... 1952 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ...
Complete Formula One results
(Note: grands prix in bold denote points scoring races.)
Salvadori June 1954 Silverstone meeting into 2nd place (when the car had the 1953 air intake partially blocked), Dennis Poore set a class record with the car at Prescott and Salvadori drove the car to 5th place at Aintree in October (by when the nose had been reprofiled to incorporate the smaller 1954 air intake).
Salvadori finished 7th at the May Silverstone meeting and it was driven by Collins/'B. Bira' at Le Mans(crashed.) rebuilt for 1955 with 'Gothic Arch' open body, Girling disc brakes and Borrani offset wheels and registered 62 EMU.
Salvadori finished 2nd in the International Trophy at Silverstone, retired in the Dutch Grand Prix, finished 6th in the British Grand Prix and 6th in the Portuguese Grand Prix.
During practice, however, RoySalvadori came within six seconds of Ascari's qualifying time in the Ferrari 500, which was considered reasonably close considering the disparities between the Ferrari and the Connaught.
In the end, Claes was out after 7 laps with fuel line problems, Salvadori retired on lap 34 with throttle problems and although Fairman and McAlpine were still running at the finish they had not accumulated enough laps to be classified, a quiet end to the Grand Prix portion of the 1953 season.
It was wet and Salvadori retired his Connaught on the first lap and Ken McAlpine, who was driving his trusty A1 slid off the course on lap 8 and overturned A1 into an earthen bank, no doubt adding to the Patron's growing disenchantment with Team Connaught as the 1953 season came to an end.
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