The 11th Lavant Cup was a motor race, run for Formula Two cars, held on 18 April 1960 at Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex. The race was run over 15 laps of the circuit, and was won by British driver Innes Ireland in a Lotus 18. Ireland had also qualified in pole position, and set fastest lap during the race. Stirling Moss in a Porsche 718/2 was second and Roy Salvadori in a Cooper T51 was third.[1]

1960 Lavant Cup
Race details
Date 18 April 1960
Official name XI Lavant Cup
Location Goodwood Circuit, West Sussex
Course Permanent racing facility
Course length 3.862 km (2.4 miles)
Distance 15 laps, 57.93 km (36.0 miles)
Pole position
Driver Lotus-Climax
Time 1:29.4
Fastest lap
Driver United Kingdom Innes Ireland Lotus-Climax
Time 1:28.8
Podium
First Lotus-Climax
Second Porsche
Third Cooper-Climax

Results edit

Pos No. Driver Entrant Constructor Time/Retired Grid
1 25   Innes Ireland Team Lotus Lotus 18-Climax 22:24.2 1
2 21   Stirling Moss R.R.C. Walker Racing Team Porsche 718/2 +6.4s 2
3 27   Roy Salvadori High Efficiency Motors Cooper T51-Climax +23.2s 3
4 23   Chris Bristow Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper T51-Climax +32.2s 4
5 31   Bruce Halford John Fisher Cooper T45-Climax +46.0s 5
6 33   Mike McKee Jim Russell Racing School Cooper T45-Climax +49.4s 8
7 28   Denis Hulme New Zealand International Grand Prix Team Cooper T45-Climax 15 laps 12
8 22   Harry Schell Yeoman Credit Racing Team Cooper T51-Climax 15 laps 7
9 37   Ian Raby Tom Payne Hume-Cooper T39-Climax 15 laps 9
10 29   George Lawton New Zealand International Grand Prix Team Cooper T45-Climax 15 laps 14
11 30   George Wicken George Wicken Cooper T43-Climax 15 laps 10
12 32   Maurice Charles Maurice Charles Motors Cooper T45-Climax 13
13 40   George Pfaff Equipe Prideaux Cooper T43-Climax 18
14 38   Mike Spence Peter Westbury Cooper T45-Climax 16
15 43   Dickie Stoop Richard Stoop Cooper T45-Climax 15
16 36   Albert Gray Albert Gray Lotus 12-Climax 17
Ret 41   Gerry Ashmore Ashmore's Auto Engineering Cooper T43-Climax 19
Ret 42   Henry Taylor Laystall Engineering Ltd. Laystall-Climax Overheating 6
DNS 34   Steve Ouvaroff Count Steve Ouvaroff Cooper T51-Climax 11

References edit

  1. ^ "XI Lavant Cup 1960". Retrieved 23 March 2023.