Ian Raby is a racing driver from United Kingdom who last raced in Formula 1 for Brabham-BRM. Raby has recorded 0 wins and 0 podiums from 3 starts.[1]
A Racer Rating of 3,843 ranks Raby 1253th 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.
| 1965-07-10 | Silverstone Circuit | P11 | +23 |
| Season | Series | Team | Races | Wins | Podiums | DNFs | Poles | Points | Pos | Gain/Loss | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1965 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham-BRM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | P17 | +23 | 3,844 |
| 1964 | ▸Formula 1 | Brabham-BRM | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P23 | −54 | 3,830 |
| 1963 | ▸Formula 1 | Gilby | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | P18 | −30 | 3,862 |
Ian Raby was a British racing driver who came to Formula 1 as a privateer and garage owner relatively late in his career. Between 1963 and 1965, he made three starts in World Championship Grands Prix for Brabham-BRM, competing against some of the era's leading drivers. He never scored a championship point and finished no higher than eleventh in the races he completed. His most significant result was beating Jochen Rindt, a five-time world champion and one of the strongest drivers of the period, on a single occasion; he also outfinished Richard Attwood and Masten Gregory once each, both respected professionals of the era.[1]
Raby's tenure in Formula 1 was brief and marked by the typical fate of privateer entries against the works teams of the day. His average finish among classified starts was eleventh place, reflecting the gulf between a one-off competitor and the established grid. His three-year span on record yielded no wins and no podiums, and his final Formula 1 appearance in 1965 ended in seventeenth place. He remains a footnote in the Brabham story, a garage proprietor from Brighton who sampled motor racing's highest category without making a sustained mark on it.[2]