Richard “Dick” Gibson (16 April 1918 – 17 December 2010) was a racing driver from England, born in Bourne, Lincolnshire.
Gibson participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting in 1957. He scored no championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Info from Wiki
Bio by Stephen Latham
Besides competing in Grand Prix and sportscar events in Europe, Dick Gibson would travel to South Africa and New Zealand to take part in championships there during their summer months in the southern hemisphere.
He started racing in club events in 1952 and in 1953 began competing with a Jaguar XK120. 1954 saw him move to single-seaters and he contested a number of hillclimbs and F1 events in England with a Cooper T23-Bristol. From this he raced an ex-Johnny Claes Connaught A-type and was fifth in the 1956 BARC 200 at Aintree (sharing with Bob Berry).
For the following season he had a Cooper T43-Climax and competed in the F2 class at the German GP, though retired in the race. During the French GP, at Reims, he competed in the 2nd Coupe Internationale de Vitesse F2 race, which included drivers such as Stirling Moss, Jean Behra, Peter Collins, Jack Brabham and a young Bruce McLaren, and finished in 10th place.
Following this he competed in the Grand Prix de Caen and raced against Stirling Moss, Jean Behra, Harry Schell and Maurice Trintignant. His qualifying performance saw him line up on the second row of the grid in third, though overheating problems during the race would force him to retire.
Following this was an F2 race at the Charade Circuit in Clermont-Ferrand, where he finished in 8th place.
His greatest successes however came in South Africa and in 1957 he won a non-championship race at Grand Central, near Johannesburg, which was followed by national championship victories in the Van Riebeeck Trophy and at Grand Central in 1958. He returned to the Nürburgring in 1958 for the GP, though retired with suspension failure and this would be his last entry in the World Championship.
Back in South Africa, he won the opening three races of 1959, at Pietermaritzburg and twice at Cape Town, but a spin caused him to lose the 1820 Settlers’ Trophy.
In 1960 he was seventh in the South African GP but during the False Bay 100 race at Cape Town he crashed and broke his hip. His damaged car was rebuilt and, entered as Equipe Prideaux, Vic Wilson raced Dick’s Cooper in that year’s Italian GP.
After retiring, he lived in Mesa, Arizona and also spent some years in Spain and passed away in 2010.
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