Stuart Lewis-Evans
Born | Vanwall | 20 April 1930
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Entries | 14 |
Championships | 0 |
Wins | 0 |
Podiums | 2 |
Career points | 16 |
Pole positions | 2 |
Fastest laps | 0 |
First entry | 1957 Monaco Grand Prix |
Last entry | 1958 Moroccan Grand Prix |
Stuart Nigel Lewis-Evans (20 April 1930 – 25 October 1958) was a British
Early life
Stuart Lewis-Evans was born in Luton, Bedfordshire, but largely grew up in Kent, where his father, Lewis "Pop" Lewis-Evans, owned and ran a garage business.[1] Pop Lewis-Evans had previously been a mechanic for the well-known racing driver Earl Howe, but had not previously raced himself.[1] On leaving school, Lewis-Evans was apprenticed for three years to Vauxhall Motors, back in Bedfordshire, before he was called up for National Service. During this time he served as a motorcycle despatch rider for the Royal Corps of Signals.[2]
Career
Lewis-Evans began racing in 1951 with a Cooper 500
In 1957, he won the
The 1958 Formula One season would prove to be a much better year, at least initially, for the entire Vanwall team. Principal drivers Stirling Moss and Tony Brooks took three victories each, and Lewis-Evans added to the team's points haul with podium finishes in the Belgian and Portuguese events. He also took pole position at the Dutch Grand Prix, but failed to finish in the race. This was not his only retirement of the year – indeed his only other finish, although points-scoring, was a fourth place at the British Grand Prix.
Lewis-Evans crashed heavily at the dusty Ain-Diab Circuit during the season-ending Moroccan Grand Prix. His Vanwall's engine seized and sent him lurching into barriers at high speed, and his car burst into flames. He was airlifted back to the UK, but died in hospital of his burns six days after the accident.[6] His death cast a pall over Vanwall's victory in the 1958 International Cup for F1 Manufacturers, an achievement to which Lewis-Evans had contributed significantly. Vandervell never fully recovered from Lewis-Evans's death and withdrew from motorsport at the end of 1958.
Racing record
Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key; Grands Prix in bold indicate pole position)
Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | WDC | Points |
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1957 | Connaught Engineering | Connaught Type B | Straight-4
|
ARG | MON 4 |
500 | 12th | 5 | ||||||||
Vandervell Products Ltd.
|
Vanwall
|
Straight-4
|
FRA Ret |
GBR 7 |
GER Ret |
PES 5 |
ITA Ret |
|||||||||
1958 | Vandervell Products Ltd.
|
Vanwall
|
Straight-4
|
ARG | MON Ret |
NED Ret |
500 | BEL 3 |
FRA Ret |
GBR 4 |
GER DNA |
POR 3 |
ITA Ret |
MOR Ret |
9th | 11 |
Non-Championship Formula One results
(key)
Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1956 | Connaught Engineering | Connaught Type B | Straight-4
|
NZL | BUE | GLO | SYR | BAR | INT | NAP | AIN | VAN | CAE | SUS | BRS 2 |
AUS |
1957 | Connaught Engineering | Connaught Type B | Straight-4
|
BUE | SYR | PAU | GLV 1 |
NAP Ret |
||||||||
Vandervell Products Ltd.
|
Vanwall
|
Straight-4
|
RMS 3 |
CAE | INT | MOD | MOR 2 | |||||||||
1958 | Connaught Engineering | Connaught Type B | Straight-4
|
BUE | GLV 5 |
SYR | ||||||||||
British Racing Partnership | Cooper T45 | Straight-4
|
AIN 5 |
INT 7 |
CAE 5 | |||||||||||
See also
References
- ^ a b "Stuart Lewis-Evans". 500race.org. 500 Owners Association. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ "Looking Back on Stuart Lewis-Evans". Motor Sport. Vol. 60, no. 12. December 1984. pp. 1462–1464. Retrieved 12 February 2018.
- ^ The Radnorian
- ISBN 0-85429-236-5.
- ISBN 0-85429-236-5.
- ^ Motor Sport, December 1958, pp.821 & 824.
- ISBN 978-1-902007-46-5.
- ^ a b "All championship race entries, by Stuart Lewis-Evans". ChicaneF1. Retrieved 5 May 2022.
- ^ "Stuart Lewis-Evans – Involvement Non World Championship". StatsF1. Retrieved 5 May 2022.