British F1 legend Tony Brooks dies 老年の 90: 'Racing dentist' who was 決まり文句／製法 One's last 生き残るing grand prix 勝利者 from the 1950s passes away, 明らかにする／漏らすs daughter
- British 決まり文句／製法 One legend Tony Brooks has died 老年の 90, his daughter?Giulia has 明らかにする／漏らすd?
- 'Racing dentist' driver won six grands prix in the 1950s and retired at the age of 29
- Only Juan Manuel Fangio, Alberto Ascari and Stirling Moss won more races than him in that period
British 決まり文句／製法 One legend Tony Brooks - F1's last 生き残るing?grand prix 勝利者 from the 1950s - has died 老年の 90, his daughter has 明らかにする／漏らすd.
'Racing dentist' Charles Anthony Standish Brooks made his?選手権 debut with BRM in 1956, winning six grands prix during one of the sport's deadliest 時代s, 辛うじて 行方不明の out on winning the F1 肩書を与える in 1959, and retiring at the age of 29.
He is regarded as?one of the 広大な／多数の／重要な British drivers of the 1950s, with only?Argentina's Juan Manuel Fangio, Italian Alberto Ascari and Stirling Moss winning more races than Brooks during his 時代.?
In Nigel Roebuck's 1986 調書をとる／予約する Grand Prix 広大な／多数の／重要なs, Moss said:?'Brooks was a tremendous driver, the greatest - if he'll 許す me 説 this - 'unknown' racing driver there's ever been. He was far better than several people who won the world 選手権.'?
Born on February 25, 1932 in Dukinfield, Cheshire, Brooks began club racing in 1952 before joining Aston ツバメ's sports car team in 1954.?
In 1955, 老年の 23, he was 熟考する／考慮するing for his 決勝戦 in dentistry when he was called in as a last-minute 交替／補充 at the Connaught team for the Syracuse GP. He 行方不明になるd the first day of practice, learnt the 跡をつける on a 雇うd scooter and （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the factory Maseratis of 設立するd F1 drivers Luigi Musso and Luigi Villoresi - 収入?him the?moniker of 'the racing dentist'.?
決まり文句／製法 One 長，指導者 (n)役員／(a)執行力のある Stefano Domenicali in a 声明: 'I was saddened to hear the news that Tony Brooks has died. He was part of a special group of drivers who were 開拓するs and 押し進めるd the 境界s at a time of 広大な／多数の／重要な 危険.'?
Tony Brooks (left) with Stirling Moss (権利) at the 1957 British Grand Prix
Tony Brooks pictured in a Cooper 最高潮 during one of F1's deadliest 時代s - the 1950s
Tony Brooks (left) and Stirling Moss pictured celebrating victory in the British Grand Prix
Tony Brooks pictured in a racing car in the 1950s. He has died at the age of 90?
Tony Brooks
Goodwood 復活 発表するd on its 公式の／役人 Twitter account: 'We are sad to 発表する the passing of Tony Brooks, the last 生き残るing Grand Prix 勝利者 from the 1950s.?
'Known as the 'Racing Dentist', he was one of the greatest drivers never to have been world 支持する／優勝者 にもかかわらず six Grand Prix 勝利，勝つs. Our thoughts are with his family.'?
Brooks 解任するd:?'I was 全く 吸収するd in 熟考する／考慮するing when Connaught called me, and I was still immersed all the way out there. It was probably a blessing, because I didn't have time to think what I was doing, going to what was regarded as the end of the world to 運動 a car I'd never sat in, on a 回路・連盟 I'd never seen - a true road 回路・連盟! Thankfully I was more worried about my 熟考する／考慮するs.'
He 行方不明になるd the first day of practice, learnt the 跡をつける on a 雇うd scooter and （警官の）巡回区域，受持ち区域 the factory Maseratis of 設立するd F1 drivers Luigi Musso and Luigi Villoresi.
Brooks won the 1957 British Grand Prix for Vanwall, in a car 株d with Moss, and 勝利d for Ferrari in フラン and Germany in 1959, the year he finished second 全体にわたる to Australian Jack Brabham. He was also twice a 走者-up in Monaco.
A 静かな, unflashy man, Brooks said:?'I think we did feel different from the others. I did, because モーター racing was too serious to fool about.?
F1 legend Tony Brooks sitting in a racing car. He has died at the age of 90, his daughter has 明らかにする／漏らすd
'Racing dentist' Tony Brooks 提起する／ポーズをとるing for a photo. He was one of the last 生き残るing grands prix 勝利者s of the 1950s
Driver Tony Brooks and his wife Pina with their daughter Carolina Louise in the 1950s
Tony Brooks pictured 運動ing a racing car in the 1950s. He was one of the かつてない F1 広大な／多数の／重要なs
'I felt that you had to be 全く fit and 全く 焦点（を合わせる）d on what you were doing... I think behind the wheel I was just as committed and professional. You were putting your life on the line anyway, and not to be professional behind the wheel was 負担ing the dice against you.?
'But I like to think I could enjoy myself with the lads after or between races along with the best of them... Away from racing, I was finishing my 熟考する／考慮するs and had this idea that I would qualify as a dentist, so I was really a dentist, not a professional racing driver. I think I probably felt that all my career.'
He 追加するd:?'For six or seven years I went モーター racing and 完全に enjoyed it. But I never had the dedication of, say, Stirling. It was never going to be my life. Just a part of it.'
Brooks 生き残るd two 抱擁する 事故s at Silverstone and Le Mans earlier in his career that had changed the way he approached racing and 知らせるd his 活動／戦闘s at Sebring.?
He 解任するd:?'Believe me, those must have been the most difficult minutes of my life! If I stopped, the World 選手権 would be gone.?On the other 手渡す, if I didn't I would have betrayed the solemn 約束 that I'd made to myself...?Without 存在 劇の about it, I had got away with my life twice and therefore I made that 約束 to myself. And if I did, could I deserve anything else but 押し進めるing up the daisies??
'My natural inclination was to carry on. Believe me, that would have been the easiest thing to do, but I made myself come in to have the car checked over.'
Brooks lost half a （競技場の）トラック一周 doing so and he finished third, not enough to 妨げる Jack Brabham, who had run out of 燃料 and 押し進めるd his car over the line for fourth, taking the 肩書を与える.
The BBC said the news was 発表するd by Brooks' daughter Giulia.?
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