1953 Madgwick Cup

1953 Madgwick Cup
Race details
Date 26 September 1953
Official name VI Madgwick Cup
Location Chichester, West Sussex, UK
Course Goodwood Circuit
Course length 3.863 km (2.400 mi)
Distance 7 laps, 27.039 km (16.801 mi)
Pole position
Driver
Connaught-Lea Francis
Time 1:35.4
Fastest lap
Driver Roy Salvadori Connaught-Lea Francis
Time 1:35.0
Podium
First
Connaught-Lea Francis
Second
Cooper-Alta
Third
Connaught-Lea Francis

The 6th Madgwick Cup was a non-championship Formula Two motor race held at Goodwood Circuit on 26 September 1953. The race was won by Roy Salvadori in a Connaught Type A-Lea Francis, starting from pole and setting fastest lap. Stirling Moss in a Cooper T24-Alta finished second and Tony Rolt was third in another Type A.[1][2]

Results

Pos No Driver Entrant Car Time/Retired Grid
1 10 Roy Salvadori Connaught Engineering Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 11:15.0, 144.26kph 1
2 7 Stirling Moss Cooper Car Company Cooper T24-Alta +3.4s 2
3 11 Tony Rolt R.R.C. Walker Racing Team Connaught Type A-Lea Francis +3.8s 3
4 23 Ken Wharton Ken Wharton Cooper T23-Bristol +24.8s 5
5 8 Bob Gerard F.R. Gerard Cooper T23-Bristol +33.6s 4
6 27 Les Leston Ecurie Londres Cooper T26-JAP +55.2s 6
7 12 Leslie Marr Leslie Marr Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 7 laps 8
8 14 Guy Jason-Henry Ecurie Brittanique Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 7 laps 10
9 9 Jimmy Somervail Border Reivers Cooper T20-Bristol 7 laps 9
Ret 24 Rodney Nuckey Rodney Nuckey Cooper T23-Bristol 6 laps 16
Ret 28 Horace Richards Horace Richards HAR-Riley 5 laps 13
Ret 26 Jack Fairman John Webb Turner-Lea Francis 4 laps 11
Ret 5 Ottorino Volonterio Ottorino Volonterio Maserati 4CLT/48 2 laps 14
Ret 21 Horace Gould Gould's Garage Bristol Cooper T23-Bristol 2 laps 7
Ret 22 Duncan Hamilton R.J. Chase Cooper T23-Bristol 0 laps, drive shaft 12
DNS 16 Paul Emery Emeryson Cars Emeryson-Aston Martin 15
DNA 6 Willi Sturzebecher Willi Sturzebecher Veritas Meteor
DNA 15 Lance Macklin HW Motors Ltd HWM-Alta
DNA 25 Austen Nurse Austen Nurse HWM-Alta
DNA 86 Mike Hawthorn L.D. Hawthorn Cooper T20-Bristol
DNA 9 Keith Hall Border Reivers Cooper T20-Bristol car driven by Somervail
DNA 26 John Webb John Webb Turner-Lea Francis car driven by Fairman

References

  1. ^ "1953 Non-World Championship Grands Prix". Retrieved 2022-06-24.
  2. ^ "VI Madgwick Cup 1953". Retrieved 2022-06-24.


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