Ted Whiteaway

1/11/1928 - 18/10/1995

Record updated 18-Oct-21

Racing driver who made one attempt at F1. He won his class at Le Mans in 1959, finishing 7th overall.

Ted Whiteaway was a professional racing driver from Great Britain.

He raced in a number of non-championship F1 races in 1954 with his privately entered HWM-Alta He posting a number of DNFs. He came 6th in the Grand Prix de Rouen-les-Essarts and 6th in the August Cup at Crystal Palace.

In 1956 he failed to finish both the Gran Premio di Napoli and the Grand Prix d'Albi, going out on the 17th lap both times. Between these two races he tried but failed to qualify his HWM-Alta for the Monte Carlo Grand Prix.

In 1959 he fnished 7th overall and 1st in class at Le Mans, driving a Rudd Racing 2 litre AC Ace Bristol wth John Turner.



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