Alan
Stacey

Alan Stacey was born in Broomfield on 29 August 1933. His association with Lotus began when he assembled one of the company's Mk VI kits and raced the car. He later built a Lotus Eleven, which he took to Le Mans under the Team Lotus banner. In 1957 he drove there alongside Peter Ashdown, but the pair did not finish. In July 1959 he won a sports car race at Aintree in a Lotus XV-Climax. He also helped to develop Lotus's Grand Prix cars, including the Lotus 16 and the Lotus 18.

Stacey made his Formula One debut for Team Lotus at the 1958 British Grand Prix. He started two races in 1959 and four in 1960, when he became a full-time driver. In total he made seven World Championship starts without scoring a point. He raced with an artificial lower right leg, and his car was fitted with a motorcycle-style throttle on the gear lever. At the 1960 Dutch Grand Prix he ran third for most of the race until transmission failure forced him out on lap 57.

Stacey was killed on 19 June 1960 in a crash on lap 25 of the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. He was running sixth at the time.

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