Ken Wharton

KEN WHARTON d1957. British racing driver from Smethwick England. His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event (run to Formula 2 regulations) where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th. He participated in a total of 15 World Championship Grands Prix (in privateer Frazer-Nash / Cooper / BRM / Vanwall) from which he scored three championship points. He won the British Hill Climb Championship every year from 1951 to 1954 and remains the only driver to have won four successive BHCC titles. On January 12th 1957 aged just 40, he was fatally injured when his Ferrari Monza crashed in a sports car race at the Ardmore Circuit in Auckland