1953 Championship Standings

1953 Gold Star Statistics

A bit of statistics regarding the 1953 series, might expand on it a bit later if time permits.

Race Attendance

• 45 drivers competed in at least one race
• 34 drivers scored points
• 19 drivers attended all 6 rounds
• Race attendance for the six rounds was remarkably constant : 33-31-32-34-32-35
• An average of 32.8 drivers attended each races (i.e. 32 drivers plus one admin )
• Gold Star champion Martin Bayer is the only driver to have scored in all 6 rounds

Drivers
The 45 drivers having competed came from 17 different countries :

• 9 United States of America
• 6 United Kingdom
• 5 Germany
• 4 Czechia
• 3 Australia, Netherlands
• 2 Argentina, Canada, France, Spain
• 1 Belgium, Brazil, Finland, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal

Four continents were represented :

• 28 Europe
• 11 North America
• 3 Oceania, South America

The average age was 40.3 years old. The junior driver was Abigail Edwards (18), the veteran Jim Carvalho (75). Age repartition was as follow :

• 1 under 20 years old
• 14 between 20 and 29 years old
• 6 between 30 and 39 years old
• 9 between 40 and 49 years old
• 9 between 50 and 59 years old
• 4 between 60 and 69 years old
• 1 between 70 and 79 years old

Note one of the 45 drivers did not provide their age.

Race Wins

• 2 Tom Dee, Rhys Gardiner, Isidoro Jauregi
• 1 Matt Wright, Martin Bayer, Nicolas Hillebrand

Class Wins

• 4 Martin Bayer
• 3 Erwann Burguiere
• 2 Tom Dee, Rhys Gardiner, Krzysztof Babij, Isidoro Jauregi
• 1 Matias Estrela, Matt Wright, Petr Hlavac, Mark A. Warmington, Darren Andrews, Martin Jaspers, Nicolas Hillebrand, Jonathan Dee

Pole-Positions

• 3 Tom Dee
• 2 Isidoro Jauregi
• 1 Matt Wright, Rhys Gardiner, Martin Bayer, Nicolas Hillebrand

Fastest Laps

• 3 Nicolas Hillebrand
• 2 Tom Dee
• 1 Matias Estrela, Rhys Gardiner, Erwann Burguiere, Isidoro Jauregi

Laps Led

• 85 Nicolas Hillebrand
• 80 Tom Dee
• 49 Isidoro Jauregi
• 30 Rhys Gardiner
• 10 Martin Bayer, Matt Wright
• 4 Rory MacDuff
• 1 Darren Andrews

Laps Completed
Martin Bayer completed an amazing 246 out of 250 possible race laps over the 6 events (a remarkable 98.4%) :

• 246 Martin Bayer, 238 Tom Dee, 232 Toby Johnson, 217 Mark A. Warmington, 216 Nicolas Hillebrand, 215 Rhys Gardiner, 212 Erwann Burguiere, 205 Bruno Chacon, 203 Mark Johnson, 201 David Purchase
• 196 Isidoro Jauregi, 192 Jon Dee & Robin de Vos, 180 Petr Hlavac, 175 Martin Jaspers, 159 Niklas Kirsten, 154 Darren Andrews, 145 Krzysztof Babij, 144 Matt Wright, 143 Rob de Vries, 125 Austin Burchfield, 122 John Cook, 119 Filippo Marazzi, 117 Lari Salminen, 114 Frank Verplanken, 113 Karel Marciniszyn, 112 Matias Estrela, 107 Honza Mild, 103 Gérard Ryon
• 82 Declan Brush, 65 Pascal Mikula, 64 Rory MacDuff, 53 Marek Liolas, 44 Abigail Edwards, 41 Paul Nadeau, 39 Sebastian Vignone, 36 Liudvik Askinis, 31 Mia Rose, 27 Ronald Toolooze, 15 Pau Casajuana, 14 Ricardo Magno, 9 Jan Titz, 4 Jim Carvalho & Nina Delamater, 3 Alex Mirkovic

Miscellaneous

• The 45 drivers combined for 216 starts over the 6 events (9 races)
• The finishing rate was 61.6%, the retirement rate 38.4%
• The closest finish was 00.6s between Tom Dee (#62 Lancia D24) and Niklas Kirsten (#56 Ferrari 375 MM) in the +3,000cc sprint race at Crystal Palace
• Outside of the sprints, the closest finish was 04.1s between Isidoro Jauregi (#8 Jaguar D-type) and Rory MacDuff (#9 Jaguar D-type) at Monza
• The biggest margin of victory was 1:45.1 between Rhys Gardiner (#54 Aston-Martin DB3S) and Petr Hlavac (#10 Jaguar D-type) at Monaco
• The average margin of victory over the 9 races was 22.8s

Unofficial championships for Manufacturers and Nations, courtesy of Martin Bayer

1953 Manufacturers' Cup



1953 Nations' Cup