Biography
Don Beauman was born in Farnborough, Hampshire, in 1928 and began motor racing in 1950. He ran a Cooper 500 in Formula Three for two years before moving into sports car racing.
In 1954 he entered Formula One with a Connaught A-Type. His only World Championship race was the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, which he finished in eleventh place. In Formula Two he took several third and fourth places and came second in the Madgwick Cup at Goodwood.
Beauman died on 9 July 1955 after a crash in his Connaught during the Leinster Trophy race in Wicklow. His death and other fatal accidents that year brought an end to motor racing at the Curragh.
Source: Wikipedia, “Don Beauman”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rates
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