Johnny
Dumfries

Johnny Dumfries, whose full name was John Colum Crichton-Stuart, was born in Rothesay in 1958. He left Ampleforth College at the age of 16 and turned to motor racing. In 1984 he won the British Formula 3 Championship with 14 race victories and finished runner-up to Ivan Capelli in the European Formula Three Championship. In 1985 he moved up to the newly created International Formula 3000 series, racing first for Onyx and then for Lola. He finished sixth at Vallelunga.

His only Formula 1 season came in 1986 with Lotus. He was entered in 16 races and started 15, failing to qualify at Monaco. He scored three championship points and finished thirteenth in the drivers' standings. For 1987 he was replaced by Satoru Nakajima, as Lotus switched to Honda engines.

In 1988 he won the 24 Hours of Le Mans with Jan Lammers and Andy Wallace, driving a Jaguar XJR-9 for Silk Cut Jaguar. That year he also took third place overall in the one-hour endurance race of the British Touring Car Championship at Donington Park, sharing a Ford Sierra RS500 with Guy Edwards. After inheriting his father's title as Marquess of Bute in 1993, he went by the name John Bute. He died in March 2021.

Source: Wikipedia, “John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.