Peter Ashdown : biography
16 October 1934 –
Peter Hawthorn Ashdown (born 16 October 1934, Danbury, Essex) is a former motor racing driver. He drove in a single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, racing a Cooper.
Prior to Formula One, he was one of the leaders of the British Formula Junior scene, but an accident at Rouen-Les-Essarts in 1958, in which he broke his collarbone, considerably hampered his career. He continued racing in a Formula Two Cooper-Climax entered by Alan Brown at the 1959 British Grand Prix at Aintree. From there he drove a Formula Junior Lola and many small-engined sports cars, winning his class in the 1960 and 1962 1000km Nürburgring. He retired in 1962.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
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Year | Entrant | Chassis | Engine | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | WDC | Points |
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1959 | Equipe Alan Brown | Cooper T45 (F2) | ClimaxStraight-4 | MON | 500 | NED | FRA | GBR12 | GER | POR | ITA | USA | NC | 0 |