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🇺🇸 Jimmy Bryan

Racing driver from United States. Formula 1, Epperly.
Driver facts
Full name
Jimmy Bryan
Born
28 January 1926(b. 1926)
Nationality
United States
Current team
Epperly
Series
Formula 1
Status
Retired
Career wins
1
Career podiums
3
Career starts
9
Career DNFs
2
Racer Rating
5,987
Jimmy Bryan
Source: Wikimedia Commons
Racer Rating
5,987
Rank 233 of 39,300 indexed, -86 this season
FIA Categorisation
Not on file
Not yet indexed
Source: fia.com
Synthesized from 1 source, updated 0h ago

Jimmy Bryan is a racing driver from United States who last raced in Formula 1 for Epperly. Bryan has recorded 1 win and 3 podiums from 9 starts.[1]

A Racer Rating of 5,987 ranks Bryan 233th of 39,300 indexed drivers, on an Elo scale where the strongest reach the high 8,000s. It is built from every indexed race in the driver's file, decayed for time since their last race.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications
1960 form
Last 9 races, finish position (higher is better)
P1P5P10P20DNFUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSAUSA
Recent results
Tap a row for the full race
1960-05-30Indianapolis Motor SpeedwayFormula 1P19−30
Career-best drives
Ranked by rating won, which prices the opposition
Rating wonRaceSeriesFinish
+134Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1954Formula 1P2
+134Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1958Formula 1P1
+124Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1957Formula 1P3
+104Indianapolis Motor Speedway 1952Formula 1P6
Season by season
SeasonSeriesTeamRacesWinsPodiumsDNFsPolesPointsPosGain/LossRating
1960▸Formula 1Epperly100000P14−306,073
1959▸Formula 1Epperly100100P14−1746,104
1958▸Formula 1Epperly111008P9+1346,277
1957▸Formula 1Kuzma101004P11+1246,143
1956▸Formula 1Kuzma100000P14−296,020
1955▸Formula 1Kuzma100100P15−796,048
1954▸Formula 1Kuzma101006P7+1346,127
1953▸Formula 1Schroeder100000P14−115,993
1952▸Formula 1Kurtis Kraft100000P13+4,6546,004
Recent coverage
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Head-to-head
Most-raced and strongest-beaten: times Bryan finished ahead vs behind
RivalRatingRacedAheadBehindRecord
🇺🇸 Jim Rathmann6,17593633%
🇺🇸 Tony Bettenhausen6,07096367%
🇺🇸 Rodger Ward5,91496367%
🇺🇸 Eddie Johnson4,95994544%
🇺🇸 Johnny Thomson5,95185363%
🇺🇸 Don Freeland5,94185363%
🇺🇸 Paul Russo6,06774357%
🇺🇸 Johnnie Parsons5,99275271%
🇺🇸 Gene Hartley5,94673443%
🇺🇸 Duane Carter6,17661517%
🇮🇹 Alberto AscariHigher-rated, 2× champion6,252110100%
🇺🇸 Sam HanksHigher-rated6,12161517%
Raced wheel-to-wheel, not as team-mates
On the leaderboard
Global rank, 39,300 drivers indexed
#DriverSeriesRating
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224🇺🇸 Bob VeithFormula 15,996
225🇺🇸 Walt FaulknerFormula 15,996
226🇮🇹 Umberto MaglioliFormula 15,994
227🇬🇧 Peter ArundellFormula 15,993
228🇺🇸 Johnnie ParsonsFormula 15,992
229🇫🇮 Jyrki JärvilehtoFormula 15,991
230🇬🇧 Brian HentonFormula 15,990
231🇨🇭 Rudi FischerFormula 15,990
232🇧🇷 Felipe NasrIMSA WeatherTech5,988
233🇺🇸 Jimmy BryanFormula 15,987
234🇲🇽 Ricardo RodríguezFormula 15,986
235🇫🇷 Jean-Christophe BoullionWEC5,985
236🇻🇪 Pastor MaldonadoWEC5,985
237🇫🇷 Pierre-Henri RaphanelFIA GT Championship5,983
238🇩🇪 Christian VietorisNürburgring Langstrecken-Serie5,981
239🇯🇵 Katsumasa ChiyoSuper GT5,981
240🇩🇪 Sam BirdFormula E5,981
241🇧🇪 Olivier GendebienFormula 15,979
242🇬🇧 Jonathan PalmerFormula 15,978
243🇩🇪 Alexander WurzWEC5,977
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Jimmy Bryan was an American single-seater driver who raced in Formula 1 between 1952 and 1960, competing for Epperly across nine starts. He was an established professional, rating 5,987, who earned one victory and three podium finishes in the championship.[1]

Bryan's Formula 1 record consisted of limited but meaningful entries into a series that mixed amateurs, semi-professionals and graded professionals in the same races. He finished 14th in the 1960 championship standings, his final season. Against the established professionals he met regularly, he typically finished behind Jim Rathmann, a driver with ten Formula 1 starts, but ahead of Tony Bettenhausen, who had raced eleven times in the series. He beat both Rathmann and Duane Carter, another established professional, once each across his career.[2]

Bryan's wider racing career, documented outside this index, included three National Championships and victory in the 1958 Indianapolis 500, alongside a 1957 win in the Race of Two Worlds in Europe.

Sources: [1] Indexed race classifications[2] Wikipedia
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