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They finished 9th with an average speed of 159.458 km/h (99083 mph).
Formula One driver motorcycle racer
They finished 9th with an average speed of 159.458 km/h (99083 mph).
He began his association with Lotus when he built one of the MkVI kits then being offered by the company. Having raced this car he went on to build an Eleven, eventually campaigning it at Le Mans under the Team Lotus umbrella. During the following years he spent much time developing the Lotus Grand Prix cars, most notably the front engined 16 and then the 18.
He participated in 7 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 19 July 1958.
He scored no championship points. He also participated in several non-Championship Formula One races.
Stacey teamed with P.H. Ashdown in a Lotus 1098cc in the 1957 24 hours of Le Mans. The top four places were taken by British Jaguar Racing teams.
Stacey drove a Lotus-Climax to victory at Aintree, in a July 1959 race for sports cars of 1400cc to two litres.
His time was 37 minutes 39.4 seconds. Stacey was killed during the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix, at Spa-Francorchamps, when he crashed at 120 mph (190 km/h) after being hit in the face by a bird on lap 25, while lying sixth in his Lotus 18-Climax (the same type Lotus as Stirling Moss, Jim Clark and Innes Ireland). Stacey went off the road on the inside of fast, sweeping right hand Burnenville curve (the same corner where Moss crashed the previous day), climbed a waist-high embankment, penetrated ten feet of thick hedges, and fell into a field
He died within a few minutes of Chris Bristow, and within a few hundred feet of that wreck.
Stacey was described as quiet and gregarious. His driving was conservative according to one observer.
He had an artificial leg and conspired with his team mates to fool medical examinations for Le Mans. He would cross his legs with the real leg on top as the doctor checked his reflexes.
His teammates would then cough violently.
Stacey would uncross his legs and then recross them when the doctor turned back to him with the good leg still on top. He used a motorcycle twistgrip on the gear lever to adjust the engine speed during downshifts, because he could not "heel and toe". The Lotus is still in the hands of the Stacey Family where it makes occasional appearances on the track.
Stacey was described as quiet and gregarious. His driving was conservative according to one observer. He had an artificial leg and conspired with his team mates to fool medical examinations for Le Mans.
He would cross his legs with the real leg on top as the doctor checked his reflexes.
His teammates would then cough violently. Stacey would uncross his legs and then recross them when the doctor turned back to him with the good leg still on top.
He used a motorcycle twistgrip on the gear lever to adjust the engine speed during downshifts, because he could not "heel and toe".