Biography
Eric Thompson was born on 4 November 1919 in Ditton Hill, Surrey. In 1949 he and Jack Fairman won the 1.5-litre class at the Le Mans 24 Hours. In 1951 he shared an Aston Martin DB2 with Lance Macklin and took third place overall at Le Mans.
His only Formula One race was the 1952 British Grand Prix. Driving a works Connaught with a Lea-Francis engine, he qualified ninth and finished fifth, three laps behind winner Alberto Ascari and ahead of the 1950 world champion Giuseppe Farina, but behind his team-mate Dennis Poore. Thompson announced his retirement from racing in 1955. In 2013 he was the first driver to be admitted to the Le Mans Drivers Hall of Fame.
Source: Wikipedia, “Eric Thompson (racing driver)”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
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