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8 unusual facts about Innes Ireland


Bernard White Racing

They also entered the 1966 International Gold Cup, a non-Championship race in which Innes Ireland finished fourth, the team's best result in a Formula One race.

In 1966 the team entered cars at the United States Grand Prix and the Mexican Grand Prix with the Scottish driver Innes Ireland, retiring from both races.

BRM P261

Wilson was the cousin of team boss Bernard White, who subsequently renamed his team to the less-exotic Bernard White Racing and entered a privateer P261 for Innes Ireland in the final two races of 1966, but he failed to finish on either occasion.

BRM P48

At the Dutch Grand Prix, Hill would finish a respectable third behind the Coventry Climax engined Cooper and Lotus of Jack Brabham and Innes Ireland.

Lotus 16

Although regular works driver Hill failed to finish even a single race during the season, his team-mate Innes Ireland's car held together long enough to take five World Championship points, with fourth place in the Dutch Grand Prix and fifth in the season finale in the United States.

Lotus 18

He then won at the fearsome Nürburgring in changeable weather, while Innes Ireland took a third win in the USA to help Lotus finish second in the constructors' championship in 1961.

Lotus 21

Used by the works Lotus team and the privateer Rob Walker Racing Team in 1961, the 21 was the first works Lotus to win a Formula One Grand Prix, in the hands of Innes Ireland at the 1961 United States Grand Prix.

Robert Ireland

Robert Innes Ireland, British military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver



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