Roy Salvadori

[Nova]

Short excerpt from Speeds tribute. Read the whole article at Speed.com
RIP RS.
Former Grand Prix driver Roy Salvadori has passed away at the age of 90.

His death comes just a few weeks after that of Carroll Shelby, with whom he shared the winning Aston Martin at Le Mans in 1959.

Although inevitably overshadowed by the likes of Stirling Moss, Tony Brooks and Mike Hawthorn, he was considered one of the best British drivers of the era. A long time friend of Bernie Ecclestone, Salvadori started 47 World Championship races in a career that spanned from 1952 to 1962, with a best finish of second in the 1958 German GP.

Born to Italian parents in 1922, Salvadori started racing immediately after WW2. He made his World Championship debut at Silverstone in 1952 in a private Ferrari, in which he finished eighth.

He drove in five Grands Prix for the works Connaught team the following year, but failed to finish a race. Between 1954 and ‘56 he had occasional World Championship outings in Sid Greene’s Gilby Engineering Maserati 250F, but fared rather better on home soil, winning several non-championship F1 races against strong opposition.

[Rob]

Saw this yesterday and forgot too post it up.

RIP Roy