Tony Brooks
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Anthony "Tony" Standish Brooks (born 25 February 1932 in Dukinfield, Cheshire) is a British racing driver who has also known as the "racing dentist" in the United Kingdom.
He appeared in 39 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on July 14, 1956, winning six titles, ten podium finishes, and 75 points in his career.
In 1958, he came third in the World Drivers' Championship and second in 1959.
In 1955, he won his first race in a British car since 1923, after winning a Connaught in a non-World Championship event in Syracuse.
Career
Brooks was born on February 25, 1932, in Dukinfield, Cheshire, and studied at Mount St Mary's College. He was the son of a dental surgeon, Charles Standish Brooks, and he studied the subject for the first time. He was also a cousin of Norman Standish Brooks, a former British Olympic swimmer. He started racing in 1952 and drove a Healey and a Frazer Nash at club functions until 1955. Brooks competed in a Formula Two Connaught at Crystal Palace and finished fourth in the same year. Brooks made his first Formula One appearance in 1955 at the Syracuse Grand Prix, winning the championship. This was the first international Grand Prix victory for a British car since the 1924 San Sebastián Grand Prix.
In the 1957 British Grand Prix at Aintree, Brooks claimed the first victory for a British-built car in a World Championship competition. Moss shared the first victory with Stirling Moss. Brooks, alongside Moss, is one of the best drivers never to have been World Champion, and both Moss and three-time World Champion Jack Brabham were known to have a skepticism about his potential.
Brooks, alongside Brabham and Moss, had a chance to win the 1959 championship due to Mike Hawthorn's retirement (and subsequent death in a road accident) and Peter Collins' death. Brooks started off well with a second place at Monaco, behind Brabham. He didn't finish at the Dutch Grand Prix, but he took the French Grand Prix in Reims largely. He won the first German Grand Prix of Formula One at AVUS after struggling to finish in a Vanwall at the British Grand Prix, which he owed to Ferrari workers in Italy going on strike. The event was split into two heats, and he won both. He had a slow car in Portugal, qualifying 10th and finishing five laps behind, placing him 10th in qualifying and finishing fifth. He resigned shortly after getting off to Monza, but he was still in contention to win the championship. He was smuggish and pitted at Sebring, Germany, losing two minutes. It was a waste of time, but it still ended in third place. With 27 points, seven behind Brabham, and a one-and-a-half ahead of Moss, he came in second second in the championship, seven points behind him.
Brooks won six races for Vanwall and Ferrari, gained four pole positions, achieved ten podiums, and earned a total of 75 championship points. He drove for BRM but resigned from the team at the end of 1961, just before the team's most prolific season. He finished his career at Watkins Glen, who earned his third position in the first-ever United States Grand Prix.
He was also a great sports car racer, winning both the 1957 1000 km Nürburgring and the 1958 RAC Tourist Trophy, as co-driver Moss, and racing an Aston Martin DBR1. He was less successful at Le Mans in 1957 due to an accident while racing an Aston Martin DBR1 at the 24-hour event that year, which brought about a change in his racing philosophy. A crash in the 1956 British Grand Prix and the subsequent Le Mans accident caused mechanical damage, of which he was aware, and Brooks, a devout Catholic, had promised not to put his life in a car in less than satisfactory shape.
He had fewer qualms when it came to his own health, but I was lucky that I didn't break anything, but I did have a swollen thigh, which I could easily have stuck my fist into," says Le Mans' shunt. With these injuries, he went on to compete in the 1957 British GP with Moss and win.
Brooks was honoured by his hometown in 2007. The Dukinfield District Assembly, a member of Tameside Council, held a dinner in his honour and unveiled a plaque outside his former home on Park Lane.
Brooks died on May 3r 2022, aged 90.