🇬🇧 Alan Stacey

Alan Stacey was a British racing driver who competed in Formula 1 as a professional, racing for Team Lotus between 1958 and 1960. He drove single-seaters across seven championship rounds in a field mixing amateur, semi-professional and professional competitors.[1]

Stacey's Formula 1 career spanned three seasons from his debut in July 1958. He finished 14th in the 1960 championship standings, his best result across the period, but scored no world championship points over his seven starts. He raced against established professionals including Stirling Moss and Jack Brabham, both regular opponents who typically finished ahead of him; he was occasionally faster than drivers of similar standing such as Graham Hill and Henry Taylor, beating each of them once.[2]

His involvement with Lotus extended beyond his racing. Stacey had built his own Lotus road car early in his career and later constructed a Lotus Eleven, which he raced at Le Mans under the Lotus banner. During the years leading up to his Formula 1 appearances, he spent considerable time developing the Lotus Grand Prix cars, including the front-engined 16 and the 18 model.