Ian Burgess is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for Scirocco. Burgess has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 24 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,983 ranks Burgess 1110th 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.
| 1963-09-08 | Autodromo Nazionale di Monza | DNF | −73 |
| 1963-08-04 | Nürburgring | DNF | +17 |
| 1963-07-20 | Silverstone Circuit | DNF | −14 |
| 1963-06-30 | Reims-Gueux | DNF | −100 |
| 1963-06-23 | Circuit Park Zandvoort | DNF | −114 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | ▸Formula 1 | Scirocco | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −475 | 3,983 |
| 1962 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper-Climax | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P20 | −34 | 4,458 |
| 1961 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper-Climax | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −86 | 4,492 |
| 1960 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper-Maserati | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P28 | −128 | 4,577 |
| 1959 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper-Maserati | 4 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | P20 | −143 | 4,705 |
| 1958 | ▸Formula 1 | Cooper | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P22 | +49 | 4,849 |
| Rival | Rating | Raced | Ahead | Behind | Record |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 🇳🇿 Bruce McLaren | 5,136 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| 🇺🇸 Dan Gurney | 4,902 | 7 | 0 | 7 | 0% |
| 🇺🇸 Phil Hill | 4,199 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 29% |
| 🇬🇧 Jim Clark | 5,692 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| 🇺🇸 Richie Ginther | 5,503 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 40% |
| 🇸🇪 Jo Bonnier | 4,402 | 5 | 0 | 5 | 0% |
| 🇩🇪 Wolfgang von Trips | 5,289 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 25% |
| 🇦🇺 Jack Brabham | 5,211 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇿🇦 Tony Maggs | 5,111 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 0% |
| 🇳🇱 Carel Godin de Beaufort | 4,952 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 100% |
Ian Burgess was a British racing driver who competed in Formula 1 between 1958 and 1963. He started in 24 World Championship races across six seasons, primarily for Scirocco and Cooper-Maserati, but failed to score points or reach the podium in any of them. His average finishing position across classified races stood at eleventh, placing him in the lower half of grids that included some of the era's strongest drivers.[1]
Burgess regularly shared grids with future champions and front-running professionals such as Jim Clark, Bruce McLaren, and Dan Gurney. Against McLaren and Gurney, he finished behind them in all seven shared races. Against Phil Hill, a Silver-graded former champion, Burgess managed to finish ahead twice in seven encounters, a modest but measurable result against a much stronger field. He occasionally finished ahead of other accomplished drivers including Richie Ginther, Wolfgang von Trips, Jo Siffert, and Harry Schell, though each of these instances occurred only once or twice across their respective head-to-head records. The Cooper-Maserati team for which Burgess made seven starts proved competitive enough to win races during this period, but his tenure with them yielded no breakthrough results. His final season in 1963 produced no points or podiums across seven rounds; his last classified finish was eighteenth place.[2]