IvorBueb was born in June 1923 in Dulwich, South London.
Bueb started racing seriously in a Formula 3, Cooper in 1953, but also achieved some success with the Arnott, graduating to become Cooper works driver in 1955 alongside Jim Russell in the Mk IX.
Ivor weighed, a far from ideal, 15 stone and his car was lightened to under 500lbs to compensate.
Bueb began his career in 1952 in 500 cc racing, though he did not taste success until he got his hands on a Cooper for the 1954 season.
Ivor did so well that he was invited to join the works team the following year, racing the 1100 cc sports car in adddition to his F3 commitments.
Teaming up with the ambitious BRP stable for 1959, Ivor was as competitive as ever with the team’s Formula 2 Cooper-Borgward but disaster struck when he crashed fatally during the Auvergne Trophy race at Clermont Ferrand.
Ivor Léon John Bueb (June 6, 1923 in East Ham, London - August 1, 1959 at Clermont-Ferrand, France) was a sports car racing and Formula One driver from England.
Bueb started racing seriously in a Formula 3 500cc Cooper in 1953, graduating to occasional starts in Grands Prix in 1957 with a Connaught and a Maserati run by Gilby Engineering.
Bueb died from injuries sustained when he crashed his BRP Cooper-Borgward Formula Two car at Charade Circuit near Clermont-Ferrand, France.
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Londoner IvorBueb moved to Cheltenham in 1945 and allied himself with the garage business of Geoffrey Turk.
In 1954, IvorBueb bought a new Cooper and proved so successful in that year’s racing season that Cooper signed him up for their Works team.
IvorBueb was to go on to win the 1956 Rheims 12 Hour event and Le Mans again in 1957 alongside Ron Flockhart before he tragically died in a racing accident at Clermont Ferrand, France, on 1 August 1959.
Classic Rallying 1958/59 at Motorfilms (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab-3.cs.princeton.edu)(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The line-up of drivers was equally impressive with Paddy Hopkirk, Pat Moss, Jack Sears, IvorBueb, George Hartwell, Peter Harper, John Gott and John Sprinzel sparring like gladiators.
The stars were out in force with Tiny Lewis steering the Herald to a Coupe des Alpes, and up against such luminaries as Pat Moss in an A 40, John Sprinzel in an A 35, Nancy Mitchell in a Zephyr and Les Leston in a Sunbeam Rapier.
This was also IvorBueb's last rally before a motor racing accident sadly took his life.
AutoArt Jaguar D-Type Le Mans 24hr 1955(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Recently announced by AutoArt is this 118 scale replica of the long-nose Jaguar D-Type driven to victory in the 1955 Le Mans 24hr race by Mike Hawthorn and IvorBueb.
The model is due to arrive with us in 2006 but we have no confirmed release date at this time.
AutoArt Jaguar D-Type Le Mans 24hr 1955 - Recently announced by AutoArt is this 118 scale replica of the long-nose Jaguar D-Type driven to victory in the 1955 Le Mans 24hr race by Mike Hawthorn and IvorBueb.
His team-mate IvorBueb was killed there whilst Chris made a fantastic start and shot into the lead for three laps but was forced into retirement when the water cap in his radiator became loose and lost all pressure on the cooling system.
Gregory recalls the events with sorrow: "IvorBueb's crash and eventual death had a terrible effect on young Bristow, who had so far not been subjected to the tragedies of motor racing, and it very nearly put him off racing altogether.
Sadly, their season was badly disrupted when lead driver IvorBueb, the 1955 LeMans winner, fatally crashed at Clermont-Ferrand, only a week after Bristow had won the prestigious F2 race at the British GP meeting.
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This fun-loving, extrovert garage owner from Cheltenham is best known for sharing the winning Jaguar D-type with Mike Hawthorn in the 1955 Le Mans 24-hour classic, a success he repeated with Ron Flockhart in the Ecurie Ecosse car two years later.
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Having settled on the new Lister-Jaguar as their vehicle of choice, Team Cunningham entered the 1959 Sebring 12 Hours with an impressive driver corps.
The two '58 cars would be driven by the pairings of Walt Hansgen with Dick Thompson and Briggs with Archie Scott-Brown, while Stirling Moss and IvorBueb would run the new Costin-bodied car.
As it turned out, the team would not factor in the race, which was won by a Ferrari shared by Hill, Gendebien, Chuck Daigh and Dan Gurney.
