Mike Hawthorn
Mike Hawthorn
MIKE HAWTHORN d1959. British F1 driver with Ferrari / Vanwall & BRM between 1952 and 1958. 47 races with 3 wins. Le Mans 24hour winner in 1955. The First British F1 World Champion driving a Ferrari Dino 246 in 1958 (with one win in France and five second places). He retired from F1 at the end of his Championship season. In earlier life, he had lost a kidney to infection and began suffering problems with his remaining kidney in 1955. This was so serious, he was at the time only expected to live a short number of years. However, just a matter of months into his retirement (on 22nd January 1959), he died aged just 29 in a road accident on the A3 by-pass near Guildford, driving his highly tuned British Racing Green Jaguar 3.4. What happened that day is still unknown. Suggested causes being ; driver error, mechanical failure or blackout. The crash has been attributed to a combination of high speed, bad weather and competitiveness. Rob Walker was ahead of him and perhaps Mike Hawthorn pushed his car too hard in an effort to pass Walker's Mercedes 300SL. Hawthorn's Jaguar (nicknamed "the Merceater") was heavily modified for high power and speed. "No Kraut car could overtake or out-accelerate ....." Hawthorn's Jaguar (these are the words in his biography "Challenge Me The Race"). A close relation of Hawthorn's had been killed in the war, hence his dislike of Germans ..............
Mike Hawthorn 1954 Autograph
Reference Number. 15023B
An original vintage 1954 Aldershot Stadium "Stock Car Racing" programme, clearly signed on the front cover in ink by Mike Hawthorn
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Mike Hawthorn Signature
Reference Number. 14390F
A desirable original vintage 1950s autograph book page, clearly signed in ink by Mike Hawthorn
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Mike Hawthorn Autograph
Reference Number. 14335A
A desirable original vintage 1950s autograph book page. clearly signed in ink by Mike Hawthorn
A much coveted and sought-after autograph for motorsport collectors of the first British F1 World champion
REVERSE of this page is signed by the 33rd American president Harry S Truman d1972 who was in office 1945-1953
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Mike Hawthorn & Ivor Bueb
Reference Number. 14382A
A desirable original vintage 1955 autograph book page, clearly signed in ink by Mike Hawthorn
REVERSE of the page is clearly signed in pencil by both Ivor Bueb and Norman Dewis
IVOR BUEB d1959. British F1 driver with Connaught / Maserati / Lotus and Cooper. 5 starts no points. He is perhaps best known for sharing the winning works Jaguar D-type with Mike Hawthorn in the 1955 24 Hours of Le Mans, marred by an accident in which 82 spectators were killed. He repeated this success with Ron Flockhart in the ex-works Ecurie Ecosse car in 1957. He suffered serious injuries in 1959 when he crashed his BRP Cooper-Borgward Formula Two car at the Charade Circuit France. After being carried off the circuit by Gendarmes, he died six days later in the hospital near the circuit
NORMAN DEWIS OBE d2019. British test driver for Jaguar Cars from 1952 to 1985
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Mike Hawthorn Signed
Reference Number. 14321R
A desirable original vintage 1950s photograph, clearly signed in ink by Mike Hawthorn
A much coveted and sought-after autograph for motorsport collectors of the first British F1 World champion
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Mike Hawthorn
Reference Number. 14248D
A rare original vintage circa 1950s business card (Robert Ellison Limited Staines-on-Sea MG / Jowett dealer), clearly signed on the reverse side in ink by Mike Hawthorn
A much coveted and sought-after autograph for motorsport collectors of the first British F1 World champion
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