Colin Davis

Racing for Britain, Colin Davis competed at the highest level of motorsport. Made three world championship grand prix starts across two widely spaced seasons. he debuted in 1959 at the age of twenty-six at the wheel of a cooper-maserati, then returned three years later, in 1962, driving for porsche.

Neither campaign yielded championship points, and his Formula 1 record closed after those three appearances. The three-year interval between his two seasons meant that his brief career straddled a period of rapid change in Grand Prix design, from the front-engined cars still common at his 1959 debut to the rear-engined era in which his Porsche outings took place.

Davis's split career, divided between British-Italian and German machinery, was typical of the era's part-time entries, when drivers could appear in the championship intermittently without committing to a full season.