The 3rd London Trophy (International Trophy) was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 30 July 1955 at Crystal Palace Circuit, London. The race was run over two heats of 10 laps and a final of 15 laps, and was won by British driver Mike Hawthorn in a Maserati 250F. Hawthorn started from pole position in Heat 1 and set fastest lap in the heat, and also in the final. Vanwall driver Harry Schell started from pole position in Heat 2 and set fastest lap in that heat. Schell was second in the final and Roy Salvadori in a Maserati 250F was third.
Entries No. Driver Entrant Car 1 Jack Fairman R.R.C. Walker Racing Team Connaught Type B-Alta 2 Harry Schell Vandervell Products Ltd. Vanwall VW2 3 Horace Gould Gould's Garage (Bristol) Maserati 250F 5 Tony Brooks Equipe Endeavour Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 6 Michael Young Roebuck Engineering Connaught Type A-Alta 7 Mike Hawthorn Stirling Moss Ltd. Maserati 250F 8 Charles Boulton Ecurie Ane Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 9 Roy Salvadori Gilby Engineering Maserati 250F 10 Bill Holt E.W. Holt Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 11 Tony Crook T.A.D. Crook Cooper T24-Bristol 12 John Young J.A. Young Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 15 Mike Keen R.J. Chase Cooper T23-Alta 16 Bob Gerard F.R. Gerard Cooper T23-Bristol 17 Paul Emery Emeryson Cars Emeryson Mk.1-Alta 18 Tom Kyffin Equipe Devone Cooper T23-Bristol 19 Alastair Birrell A.W. Birrell Cooper T20-Bristol 20 Jack Brabham Cooper Car Company Cooper T40-Bristol 21 Keith Hall Border Reivers Cooper T20-Bristol 23 Bruce Halford Equipe Devone Cooper T23-Bristol 24 John Webb J.H. Webb Turner-Lea Francis 41 Kenneth McAlpine Connaught Engineering Connaught Type B-Alta 141 Dick Gibson R. Gibson Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 221 David Hewitt D.A. Hewitt Cooper T23-Alta
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Results Heats
Heat 1 Pos Driver Car Time/Ret. 1 Mike Hawthorn Maserati 11:00.6, 75.75mph 2 Roy Salvadori Maserati +1.6s 3 Horace Gould Maserati +14.4s 4 Jack Fairman Connaught-Alta +17.8s 5 Tony Brooks Connaught-Lea Francis 6 Keith Hall Cooper-Bristol +1:12.0 7 Mike Keen Cooper-Alta Ret Bruce Halford Cooper-Bristol 5 laps Ret Alastair Birrell Cooper-Bristol Ret Tony Crook Cooper-BristolHeat 2 Pos Driver Car Time/Ret. 1 Harry Schell Vanwall 11:04.4, 75.33mph 2 Paul Emery Emeryson-Alta +5.4s 3 Jack Brabham Cooper-Alta +54.2s 4 Michael Young Connaught-Alta +55.6s 5 Tom Kyffin Cooper-Bristol +56.2s 6 Bill Holt Connaught-Lea Francis +57.2s 7 John Webb Turner-Lea Francis +1 lap Ret John Young Connaught-Lea Francis 7 laps, valve Ret Charles Boulton Connaught-Lea Francis 1 lap, crash Ret Bob Gerard Cooper-Bristol 0 laps, half-shaft
Final Grid positions for the final were determined by the drivers' finishing times in the heats. Only the top six drivers from each heat qualified for the final.
Pos. Driver Car Time/Retired Grid 1 Mike Hawthorn Maserati 16:10.0, 77.30mph 1 2 Harry Schell Vanwall +1.4s 3 3 Roy Salvadori Maserati +32.8s 2 4 Tony Brooks Connaught-Lea Francis +53.0s 6 5 Paul Emery Emeryson-Alta +1 lap 7 6 Michael Young Connaught-Alta +1 lap 9 7 Keith Hall Cooper-Bristol +1 lap 12 8 Bill Holt Connaught-Lea Francis 11 Ret Horace Gould Maserati 10 laps, transmission 4 DNS Jack Brabham Cooper-Bristol 8 DNS Jack Fairman Connaught-Alta 5 DNS Tom Kyffin Cooper-Bristol 10
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