Les
Leston

Les Leston, whose full name was Alfred Lazarus Fingleston, was born in Bulwell, Nottinghamshire, on 16 December 1920. He began racing in a Jaguar SS100 and then moved on to a 500cc Cooper and a car of his own, the Leston Special. In 1952 he won the Luxembourg Grand Prix. He became a Cooper works driver in 1954 and won the British Formula Three championship in the same year.

He made his Formula One debut on 2 September 1956 with Connaught. In 1957 he was entered by both BRM and Cooper. He made two World Championship starts in total and scored no points.

From 1958 to 1960 he raced a Riley 1.5 and became British Saloon Car champion in Class B. He also took the British GT title in a Lotus Elite. In the late 1960s he worked as a Formula One pit reporter for the BBC. Les Leston died on 13 May 2012.

Source: Wikipedia, “Les Leston”. Text licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.