BIOGRAPHY
KEN WHARTON d1957. British racing driver from Smethwick England. His World Championship Grand Prix debut was at the 1952 Swiss event (run to Formula 2 regulations) where he started from 13th position on the grid and finished 4th. He participated in a total of 15 World Championship Grands Prix (in privateer Frazer-Nash / Cooper / BRM / Vanwall) from which he scored three championship points. He won the British Hill Climb Championship every year from 1951 to 1954 and remains the only driver to have won four successive BHCC titles. On January 12th 1957 aged just 40 he was fatally injured when his Ferrari Monza crashed in a sports car race at the Ardmore Circuit in Auckland
DESCRIPTION
An original vintage 1955 autograph book page clearly signed in pencil by Ken Wharton
REVERSE of this page signed in ink by Stirling Moss
SIZE
14x12cm Autograph Book Page
CONDITION
Good. View Images
CERTIFICATION & PROVENANCE
From the autograph book of C Kettel of Sutton Coldfield. The motorsport signatures all collected at the Daily Express Meeting at Silverstone on May 7th 1955. Ken Wharton suffered burns and a broken arm after crashing heavily at Copse Corner in his Vanwall. AFTAL Dealer No13 and UACC RD Memorabilia UK COA
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