Horace Gould is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for Maserati. Gould has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 17 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,797 ranks Gould 1303th of 15,348 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the low five figures. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.
| 1960-09-04 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | DNF | −115 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ▸Formula 1 | Maserati | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P28 | −115 | 3,797 |
| 1958 | ▸Formula 1 | Maserati | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | −186 | 3,913 |
| 1957 | ▸Formula 1 | Maserati | 6 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | P23 | −529 | 4,098 |
| 1956 | ▸Formula 1 | Maserati | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | P19 | −25 | 4,627 |
| 1955 | ▸Formula 1 | Maserati | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | P26 | −163 | 4,652 |
| 1954 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P27 | +15 | 4,815 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇦🇷 Juan Fangio | 6,092 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| 🇬🇧 Mike Hawthorn | 5,537 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇬🇧 Stirling Moss | 5,388 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇺🇸 Harry Schell | 4,981 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇫🇷 Jean Behra | 4,855 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 0% |
| 🇪🇸 Paco Godia | 4,813 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 33% |
Horace Gould was a British racing driver from Bristol who competed in Formula 1 between 1954 and 1960, accumulating 17 starts with Maserati but never scoring a podium finish. His career sat at the periphery of the sport's front rank during an era when grands prix grids were thin and entry varied widely; his average finishing position of ninth across classified starts places him comfortably in the middle order of a field that regularly included five-time champions and other proven professionals. Gould's 17 races occurred during a period when Maserati was fielding competitive machinery, yet he was consistently outpaced by the team's lead drivers and the grid's established names.[1]
The competitive record tells a clear story. Across five shared races with Juan Fangio, the five-time world champion never finished behind him. Against Stirling Moss, Mike Hawthorn, Harry Schell, Jean Behra, and others of similar standing, Gould's record was uniformly one-sided; he occasionally beat drivers of professional standing such as Luigi Villoresi, Bob Gerard, Eugenio Castellotti, and Cesare Perdisa in individual races, but never established a pattern of superiority. His final entry came in 1960, when he started but failed to classify.[2]
Gould's career represents the commonplace experience of a mid-field entrant in Formula 1 during the 1950s; capable enough to race at the sport's highest level and competitive within a certain band of the grid, but not of the calibre to trouble the established champions who dominated the era.