Biography
Colin Davis was born in Marylebone, London, on 29 July 1933. His father, Sammy Davis, was a Le Mans winner. Colin Davis raced a 500cc Formula 3 Cooper before moving to Italy, from where he pursued his racing career.
In 1959 he started two Formula One World Championship Grands Prix in a Cooper. At the Italian Grand Prix he finished 11th in a Scuderia Centro Sud Cooper-Maserati. He also took part in several non-Championship Formula One races. In sports car racing, he was eighth overall and class winner in the 1960 Nürburgring 1000km, sharing a Ferrari 250GT with Carlo Abate, and fourth overall in the same race a year later. In 1964 he won the Targa Florio with Antonio Pucci in a Porsche 904 GTS. After his racing days he emigrated to Cape Town and worked as a radio broadcaster. He died on 19 December 2012.
Source: Wikipedia, “Colin Davis (racing driver)”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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