Écurie Écosse

Écurie Écosse (French: "Scotland Stable") was a

The team's last F1 outing was at the 1954 British Grand Prix where the Connaught was again entered, this time driven by Leslie Thorne. Although the car did take the finish, it came in twelve laps down on the leaders. From this point onward, the team concentrated on sports car events.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Chassis	Engine	Tyres	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9
1952	T20	L6	D		SUI	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	NED	ITA
				David Murray					Ret
1953	T20	L6	D		ARG	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	SUI	ITA
				Ian Stewart						Ret
				Jimmy Stewart						Ret
1954	Connaught Type A	L4	D		ARG	500	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	SUI	ITA	ESP
				Leslie Thorne					14†
Source:[1]

† Not classified; 12 laps behind

Formula Two

Écurie Écosse also raced in the European Formula Two Championship, from 1969 until 1971. Their first race was in

Complete European Formula Two results

(key) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap; † indicates shared drive.)

Year	Chassis	Engine(s)	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
1969	BT23C	Cosworth FVA		THR	HOC	NÜR	JAR	TUL	PER	VAL
			Graham Birrell	11					DNS
1970	Brabham BT30	Cosworth FVA		THR	HOC	BAR	PAL	HOC	PER	TUL	IMO	HOC
			Graham Birrell				11	12
			Richard Attwood								Ret
1971	712M	Cosworth FVA		HOC	THR	NÜR	JAR	PAL	ROU	MAN	TUL	ALB	VAL	VAL
			Tom Walkinshaw		Ret		DNQ	DNQ
			Gerry Birrell			9

24 Hours of Le Mans

In the 1956 24 Hours of Le Mans, Ron Flockhart and Ninian Sanderson were the winning drivers in a Jaguar D-Type.^[2]

Ron Flockhart won again with a D-Type in the 1957 event, partnered this time by Ivor Bueb.^[3] The team's second D-Type – driven by Sanderson and his new partner John Lawrence – finished second, a rare privateer 1–2 finish.

The 1958 Le Mans race was less successful; both of the Ecurie Ecosse D-Types, this time with Masten Gregory and Jack Fairman added to the driver line-up, suffered engine failure within a few laps of the start.^[4]

The team would again field a D-Type at Le Mans in 1959, alongside a newly acquired Tojeiro-Jaguar. Once again, neither car made it to the final flag, the D-Type suffering engine failure after 70 laps, and the Tojeiro a fire after 137.^[5]

Things went from bad to worse for the team in the 1960 running. The, by now much modified, D-Type was again entered, and lasted until the 168th lap before being forced out with a broken crankshaft. Écurie Écosse's second car for this year, a Cooper T49 Monaco, did not even make it to the start line.^[6]

The entrants for the

Drivers

The drivers included David Murray himself; Jimmy Stewart; his younger brother, three-time F1 World Champion Jackie Stewart;^[8] fellow F1 drivers Jim Clark and Innes Ireland; Masten Gregory; Ian Stewart; Leslie Thorne; Ron Flockhart; Ninian Sanderson; Roy Salvadori; Ivor Bueb; John Lawrence; Jack Fairman; Bill Stein; Edward Labinjoh;^[9] Willie Forbes;^[10] Tom Walkinshaw.^[11]

1980s revival

1985 Ecosse-Cosworth C2

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The original team ceased operating in 1971, but the team name was revived in the 1980s by enthusiast and driver Hugh McCaig. In 1986 the team won the C2 class of the

The team was accompanied by a 2-axle double-deck car transporter capable of carrying three cars (one inside and two on top) together with a support crew, and with mobile workshop facilities.

The transporter was designed by Selby Howgate^[13] and built by coachbuilders Alexander, of Falkirk, Scotland. Based on a Commer chassis, it is powered by a Commer TS3 three-cylinder horizontally-opposed two-stroke diesel engine.

From the early 1990s, enthusiast collector Dick Skipworth built up his remarkable Ecurie Ecosse Collection. Into 2013 it comprised Jaguar XK120, C-Type and D-Type, Tojeiro-Jaguar, Cooper-Climax Monaco, Le Mans Austin-Healey Sprite, Tojeiro EE-Buick Coupe and the Commer Transporter. On 5 December 2013, this entire collection was sold at auction by Bonhams at New Bond Street, London. The collection sold for a total £8.8-million Sterling – the Transporter alone for a world record £1.8-million.

Models

The Le Mans wins captured the public's imagination, and British die-cast model manufacturer

• Dymock, Eric: Ecurie Ecosse: David Murray and the Legendary Scottish Motor Racing Team (PJ Publishing, 2007,
  ISBN 978-0-9550102-2-4
  )
• Gauld, Graham: Ecurie Ecosse: A Social History of Motor Racing from the Fifties to the Nineties (Graham Gauld Public Relations, Edinburgh, 1992,
  ISBN 0-9519488-0-6
  )
• Murray, David: Ecurie Ecosse: The Story of Scotland's International Racing Team (Stanley Paul, London, 1962)

External links

• Official website

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