He also shared a Lotus at Le Mans with Colin Chapman and built a reputation as an able racer. 1960 - Chris Bristow (GB) Bristow was the son of a London, England garage owner.
It was race 5 of 10 in the 1960 World Championship of Drivers and race 4 of 9 in the 1960 International Cup for Formula One Manufacturers. A helicopter was on hand to fly him to hospital in Reims, but he died during the flight.
A week later he was killed in the Coupe de Vitesse Formula 2 race at Reims-Gueux Circuit in a factory Lotus 11 sports car, when he crashed his Lotus. He started four Formula One World Championship races and scored no championship points. Mackay-Fraser did a good job, running sixth behind the Maseratis and the Lancia-Ferraris until his transmission failed.Drivers with their names marked in red died at an official Formula One Championship race.A week later, on July 7, 1957, he was entered for the 1957 French Grand Prix de Reims in a Maserati, and qualified well. Fatal crash at Monza, Italy while trying out a sports Ferrari. Bristow was called the wild man of British club racing, as he had spun out or had collisions on almost every race track he had raced on. The 1960 Belgian Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held at Spa-Francorchamps on 19 June 1960. The car ran out of road and went on to the grass before it ran over a low earth bank and rolled. Stirling Moss and Mike Taylor were seriously injured in crashes during practice, and Chris Bristow and Alan Stacey were killed in accidents during the race. He made his racing debut at the end of 1953, in a race in Reno, at the wheel of a Jaguar XK120. Page 1 of 2 - Chris Bristow - posted in TNFs Archive: When I started working on performance cars in 1964, I worked for the Allard Motor Company, preparing cars for Sydney and Alan Allard. He retired from the race and scored no championship points. Dit is een lijst van dodelijke ongevallen in de Formule 1 met daarin alle coureurs die overleden tijdens of na een ongeval in een Formule 1-auto.Dit zijn zowel ongevallen die tijdens een raceweekend hebben plaatsgevonden als ongevallen tijdens trainingen of andere evenementen. Driver history, race statistics, racer news and photos. 1955: Pierre Levegh (F) Levegh died in Le Mans disaster at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, in it killing 82 spectators. He was the first Lotus driver to die in one of the factory cars.
After Chris was killed, Tom withdrew from circuit racing. Bristow was called the "wild man of British club racing", as he had spun or had collisions on almost every race track on which he had raced. You can find different dates and places of birth for him and his name is odd because his father was simply Fraser and his mother was not a Mackay.
He was going well until, for reasons unknown, he arrived far too fast in the hairpin. Does anyone know if Tom McGlone is still around? F1 drivers page 6. One of the mechanics Tom McGlone used to prepare Chris Bristows Cooper Borgward. A Prince William County Police motorcycle officer was killed Monday afternoon after he was involved in a vehicle Before in that race the British driver Bill Whitehouse was also killed. In the summer of 1957, BRM offered him a chance in F1 for the French GP at Rouen. Charade circuit was never very popular with the F1 set as the track tended to have a lot of stones on it from the nearby mountains - and it was there in 1972 that Helmut Marko (then a BRM driver but now a big wheel in the Red Bull team) lost an eye after a stone thrown up by another car went through his helmet visor.Herbert Mackay-Fraser was a slightly mysterious figure. Christopher William "Chris" Bristow (2 December 1937 – 19 June 1960) was a British Formula One driver.