Nationality British Wins 0 Podiums 0 Active years 1974 | Entries 17 (11 starts) Name Guy Edwards Children Sean Edwards Championships 0 Role Racing driver | |
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Books Sponsorship and the World of Motor Racing Similar People Sean Edwards, Richard Robarts, David Purley, Hans‑Joachim Stuck, Andy Sutcliffe | ||
LeMans 1981 Part2of5
Guy Richard Goronwy Edwards, QGM (born 30 December 1942) is a former racing driver from England. Best known for his sportscar and British Formula One career, as well as for brokering sponsorship deals, Edwards participated in 17 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 13 January 1974. He scored no championship points.
Contents
- LeMans 1981 Part2of5
- PFN1 Sporstcars 016 WSC Guy Edwards Watkins Glen 1981
- Career
- Complete Formula One World Championship results
- Complete European Formula Two Championship results
- Complete British Touring Car Championship results
- References
PFN1 Sporstcars 016 WSC Guy Edwards @ Watkins Glen, 1981
Career
Edwards competed in the Aurora Formula One Championship in the UK from 1978 to 1980, scoring several wins driving March, Fittipaldi and Arrows chassis. In 1979 he scored the only race win for a Fittipaldi Formula One chassis.
He is also renowned for being one of the drivers, along with Arturo Merzario, Brett Lunger and Harald Ertl who saved Niki Lauda from his burning car during the 1976 German Grand Prix, for which he was later awarded a Queen's Gallantry Medal for his bravery. Currently, he works helping racing drivers to get sponsorship.
His son Sean, also a racing driver, was killed in a motor racing accident at the Queensland Raceway at Willowbank on 15 October 2013. He was training a younger driver, when the Porsche 911 GT3 the pair were driving in caught fire following a high-speed crash.
Complete Formula One World Championship results
(key)
Complete European Formula Two Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap)
Complete British Touring Car Championship results
(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position in class) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap in class - 1 point awarded all races)