Innes Ireland

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Ireland in 1966
Born
Robert McGregor Innes Ireland

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Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
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Reading, Berkshire, England
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Norma Thomas
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(m. 1954; div. 1967)​
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Edna Humphries
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(m. 1967; div. 1972)​
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Jean Mander
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Formula One World Championship career
NationalityTemplate:Flagicon British
Active years1959–1966
TeamsLotus, BRP, Parnell, White
Entries53 (50 starts)
Championships0
Wins1
Podiums4
Career points47
Pole positions0
Fastest laps1
First entry1959 Dutch Grand Prix
First win1961 United States Grand Prix
Last entry1966 Mexican Grand Prix
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24 Hours of Le Mans career
Years1958–1960, 1962–1966
TeamsLotus, Écurie Écosse, BRP, Aston Martin, Ferrari, Ford
Best finish6th (1964)
Class wins0
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Military career
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AllegianceUnited Kingdom
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British Army
Service years
1953–1958
Rank
Lieutenant
CommandsTerritorial Army (1955–1958)
Parachute Regiment (1953–1954)
King's Own Scottish Borderers (1953)
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Robert McGregor Innes Ireland (12 June 1930 – 22 October 1993) was a British racing driver and journalist, who competed in Formula One from 1959 to 1966. Ireland won the 1961 United States Grand Prix with Lotus.

Born in Mytholmroyd and raised in Scotland, Ireland initially served in the British Army, reaching the rank of lieutenant in 1955. Ireland competed in Formula One for Lotus, BRP, Reg Parnell Racing and Bernard White Racing, winning the Template:F1GP in 1961 with the former, as well as finishing fourth in the 1960 World Drivers' Championship and taking victories at eight non-championship races. He entered eight editions of the 24 Hours of Le Mans from 1958 to 1966, and was a race-winner in the British Saloon Car Championship.

Upon retiring from motor racing, Ireland started a career as a journalist in the late-1980s for ESPN, later working with automobile magazines Road & Track and Autocar. He was the president of the British Racing Drivers' Club from 1992 until his death the following year.

Early life

Ireland was born 12 June 1930 in Mytholmroyd, West Riding of Yorkshire, England, the son of a Scottish veterinary surgeon. His family returned to Kirkcudbright, Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland during his youth, and he trained as an engineer with Rolls-Royce, first in Glasgow and later in London. Commissioned as a second lieutenant in the King's Own Scottish Borderers,[1] he served with the Parachute Regiment in the Suez Canal Zone during 1953 and 1954.[2] In 1955 he transferred to the Territorial Army and was promoted to lieutenant,[3] and in 1958 he was placed on the Reserve of Officers.[4]

Racing career

Ireland began racing a Riley 9 in 1954. His first year of nationally competitive events was 1957,[5] by which time he was running a small engineering firm in Surrey. Success in sports car racing saw him make his Formula One debut for Team Lotus in 1959. In 1960 he won three non-championship Formula One races and finished fourth in the World Drivers Championship. Badly injured in the 1961 Monaco Grand Prix, Ireland recovered to win the Solitude Grand Prix and Flugplatzrennen races, then finished the season with a victory in the United States Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. He was sacked at the end of the season as team boss Colin Chapman considered Jim Clark a better bet.[6]

Ireland entered a Ferrari in the 24 Hours of Daytona, with motorcycle racer Mike Hailwood as his intended co-driver, but broke down with gearbox problems after Page Template:Fraction/styles.css has no content.3+1⁄2 hours, before Hailwood was scheduled to participate.[7]

Ireland was encouraged by Bill France Sr., founder of NASCAR, to participate in the 1967 Daytona 500, one of the last races of his career, where the V8 engine of his year-old Dodge exploded opposite the stands.

Ireland worked as a journalist for ESPN for several F1 races in the late 1980s, as well as the American Road & Track magazine and Autocar magazine. He also operated fishing trawlers in the North Atlantic. Towards the end of his life, he was elected president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, a post he still held at the time of his death from cancer on 22 October 1993,[8] in Reading, Berkshire.

Writing

As a writer, Ireland produced an autobiography, All Arms and Elbows (1967; Template:ISBN). Another book, Marathon in the Dust (1970), is Ireland's account of the gruelling 1968 Daily Express London-Sydney Marathon, which he completed with two friends, fellow Formula One competitor Michael Taylor and British bobsledder Andy Hedges, in a Mercedes Benz 280 SE.

Personal life

Template:Refimprove On 30 October 1954, Ireland married Scarborough schoolteacher Norma Thomas. They had two daughters before divorcing in 1967. He then married Edna Humphries also in 1967. Ireland married his third wife Jean Mander (née Howarth), a former fashion model, on 11 June 1993 at Newbury register office. Jean had been engaged to Mike Hawthorn at the time of Hawthorn's death in 1959. Ireland also had a son who died in 1992.

Ireland was described as a larger-than-life character who, according to a rival team boss, "lived without sense, without an analyst, and provoked astonishment and affection from everyone."[9]

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 WDC Pts.
1959 Team Lotus Lotus 16 Climax FPF 2.5 L4 MON 500 NED
4 		FRA
Ret 		GBR GER
Ret 		POR
Ret 		ITA
Ret 		USA
5 		14th 5
1960 Team Lotus Lotus 18 Climax FPF 2.5 L4 ARG
6 		MON
9 		500 NED
2 		BEL
Ret 		FRA
7 		GBR
3 		POR
6 		ITA USA
2 		4th 18
1961 Team Lotus Lotus 21 Climax FPF 1.5 L4 MON
DNS 		NED BEL
Ret 		FRA
4 		GBR
10 		GER
Ret 		USA
1 		6th 12
Lotus 18/21 ITA
Ret
1962 UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus 24 Climax FWMV 1.5 V8 NED
Ret 		MON
Ret 		BEL
Ret 		FRA
Ret 		GBR
16 		GER ITA
Ret 		USA
8 		RSA
5 		16th 2
1963 British Racing Partnership Lotus 24 BRM P56 1.5 V8 MON
Ret 		GER
Ret 		9th 6
BRP Mk1 BEL
Ret 		NED
4 		FRA
9 		GBR
Ret 		ITA
4 		USA MEX RSA
1964 British Racing Partnership Lotus 24 BRM P56 1.5 V8 MON
DNS 		NED 14th 4
BRP Mk1 BEL
10 		FRA
Ret
BRP Mk2 GBR
10 		GER AUT
5 		ITA
5 		USA
Ret 		MEX
12
1965 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 25 BRM P56 1.5 V8 RSA MON BEL
13 		FRA
Ret 		GBR
Ret 		NED
10 		GER NC 0
Lotus 33 ITA
9 		USA
Ret 		MEX
DNS
1966 Bernard White Racing BRM P261 BRM P60 1.9 V8 MON BEL FRA GBR NED GER ITA USA
Ret 		MEX
Ret 		NC 0

Non-championship Formula One results

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Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21
1957 Equipe Endeavour Cooper T43 F2 Climax FPF 1.5 L4 BUE SYR GLV NAP RMS CAE INT
Ret 		MOD MOR
1959 Team Lotus Lotus 16 F2 Climax FPF 1.5 L4 GLV AIN INT
11 		OUL
Lotus 16 Climax FPF 2.5 L4 SIL
Ret
1960 Team Lotus Lotus 18 Climax FPF 2.5 L4 BUE
Ret 		GLV
1 		INT
1 		SIL
Ret 		LOM
1 		OUL
Ret
1961 Team Lotus Lotus 18 Climax FPF 1.5 L4 LOM
Ret 		GLV
5 		PAU BRX
9 		VIE AIN
10 		SYR
Ret 		NAP LON SIL KAN
Ret 		MOD
DNQ
Lotus 21 SOL
1 		DAN
2 		FLG
1 		OUL
Ret 		LEW VAL RAN NAT RSA
1962 UDT-Laystall Racing Team Lotus 18/21 Climax FPF 1.5 L4 CAP BRX
3 		LOM
Ret 		LAV GLV
3 		PAU AIN
Ret
Ferrari 156 Ferrari 178 1.5 V6 INT
4
Lotus 24 BRM P56 1.5 V8 NAP MAL CLP
1
Climax FWMV 1.5 V8 RMS
3 		SOL
DNA 		KAN
4 		MED DAN
3 		OUL
Ret 		MEX
3 		RAN
Ret 		NAT
1963 British Racing Partnership Lotus 24 BRM P56 1.5 V8 LOM
3 		GLV
1 		PAU IMO SYR AIN
2 		INT
4 		ROM KAN MED AUT OUL
Ret 		RAN
BRP Mk1 SOL
3
1964 British Racing Partnership BRP Mk1 BRM P56 1.5 V8 DMT
1 		NWT
Ret 		SYR
BRP Mk2 AIN
Ret 		INT
Ret 		SOL
Ret 		MED
3 		RAN
1965 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 25 BRM P56 1.5 V8 ROC SYR
Ret 		SMT INT MED
5
Lotus 25/331 BRM P60 2.0 V8 RAN
6
1966 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 25/331 BRM P60 2.0 V8 RSA
Ret 		SYR INT
Bernard White Racing BRM P261 BRM P60 1.9 V8 OUL
4
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Complete British Saloon Car Championship results

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24 Hours of Le Mans results

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1958 Template:Flagicon Team Lotus Template:Flagicon Mike Taylor Lotus 11 S 1.1 162 DNF DNF
1959 Template:Flagicon Écurie Écosse Template:Flagicon Masten Gregory Jaguar D-Type S 3.0 70 DNF DNF
1960 Template:Flagicon Team Lotus Template:Flagicon John Whitmore Lotus Elite Mk. 14 S 2.0 0 DNS DNS
1962 Template:Flagicon UDT Laystall Racing Team Template:Flagicon Masten Gregory Ferrari 250 GTO GT 3.0 165 DNF DNF
1963 Template:Flagicon David Brown Racing Dept. Template:Flagicon Bruce McLaren Aston Martin DP214 GT +3.0 59 DNF DNF
1964 Template:Flagicon Maranello Concessionaires Template:Flagicon Tony Maggs Ferrari 250 GTO GT 3.0 328 6th 2nd
1965 Template:Flagicon Ford Advanced Vehicles Template:Flagicon John Whitmore Ford GT40 GT 5.0 72 DNF DNF
1966 Template:Flagicon F.R. English Ltd. \ Comstock Racing Template:Flagicon Jochen Rindt Ford GT40 Mk I S 5.0 8 DNF DNF

NASCAR: Grand National

Daytona 500

Year Team Manufacturer Start Finish
1967 Ray Fox '66 Dodge Charger 20 27

See also

References

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