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{{Former F1 driver| Name = Peter Collins | Nationality = {{flagicon|UK}} [[United Kingdom|British]] | Years = {{F1|1952}} &ndash; {{F1|1958}} | Team(s) = [[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]],<br>[[Vanwall]],<br>[[Maserati]],<br>[[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] | Races = 35 (32 starts) | Championships = 0 | Wins = 3 | Podiums = 9 | Points = 47 | Poles = 0 | Fastest laps = 0 | First race = [[1952 Swiss Grand Prix]] | First win = [[1956 Belgian Grand Prix]]| Last win = [[1958 British Grand Prix]]| Last race = [[1958 German Grand Prix]] | }} '''Peter John Collins''' (6 November 1931 &ndash; 3 August 1958) was a [[Formula One]] driver from [[England]]. He participated in 35 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 18 May 1952. He won 3 races, achieved 9 podiums, and scored a total of 47 championship points. In common with many British drivers of the immediate post-war period, Collins cut his racing teeth in the frenetic 500cc category (adopted as [[Formula 3]] at the end of 1950), when his parents bought him a Cooper 500 from the fledgling [[Cooper Car Company]]. These small machines, powered by motorcycle engines, were also the proving ground of many of Collins' F1 contemporaries, notably including [[Stirling Moss]]. He got his F1 break in 1952, picking up a drive for the lowly [[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]] team, replacing Moss. Results did not come the team's way, and Collins left after the 1953 season. Following spells driving for [[Vanwall]] and [[Maserati]], and one brief outing in a [[British Racing Motors|BRM]] which ended with a crash in qualifying, Collins was signed to the [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] team for the 1956 F1 season. Finally things looked to be going Collins' way. The 1956 season proved to be a turning point, with a second place - behind Moss - at Monaco, and wins at the Belgian and French Grands Prix. Indeed, Collins was on the verge of becoming Britain's first F1 World Champion when he handed his [[Lancia in Formula One|Lancia]]-Ferrari D50 over to team leader [[Juan Manuel Fangio]] after the latter suffered a steering-arm failure toward the end of the [[1956 Italian Grand Prix|Italian Grand Prix]] at Monza. Collins eventually finished second, but the advantage handed to Moss, and the extra points gained by Fangio's finish, demoted Collins to third in the championship. This selfless, team-orientated action gained Collins immense respect among the Italian racing [[tifosi]], and the gratitude and admiration of [[Enzo Ferrari]] himself, a man notoriously hard to please. In his double-biography of Collins and [[Mike Hawthorn]], "Mon Ami Mate", [[Chris Nixon]] describes the ensuing relationship between the English driver and his Italian boss as being almost like father and son from this point on. In 1957, Collins was joined at Ferrari by [[Mike Hawthorn]]. The two became very close friends, often getting into much off-track trouble together, and took to calling each other "mon ami mate" after a newspaper cartoon strip. 1957 also saw Collins marry American Louise King. However, despite a third-placed finish at the [[1957 German Grand Prix|Nurburgring]], Ferrari were distinctly under-par for much of the season as the [[Ferrari 801|801]] model (an evolution of the 1954 Lancia D50) was by then becoming obsolete. 1958 saw the introduction of the new Ferrari Dino 246, a far improved car, and once again results began to go the way of Scuderia Ferrari. Collins scored his third and final career victory at the [[1958 British Grand Prix|British Grand Prix]], as well as taking a third place at [[1958 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco]]. Hawthorn also won in [[1958 French Grand Prix|France]], but the two were chasing [[Tony Brooks]]' Vanwall at the German Grand Prix when disaster struck. Pushing hard to keep pace, Collins lost control of his car and, in Hawthorn's direct sight, spun off the track, disappearing over a bank. During the ensuing accident Collins was thrown clear of the Ferrari, hit a tree and sustained critical injuries to his head. Despite being airlifted to hospital, Collins died later that afternoon. ==Complete World Championship Formula One results== ([[:Template:F1 driver results legend 2|key]]; * shared drive) {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%" ! Year ! Entrant ! Chassis ! Engine ! 1 ! 2 ! 3 ! 4 ! 5 ! 6 ! 7 ! 8 ! 9 ! 10 ! 11 ! WDC ! Points |- | [[1952 Formula One season|1952]] ! [[Hersham and Walton Motors|HW Motors]] ! [[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]] [[HWM 52|52]] ! [[Alta (automobile)|Alta]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1952 Swiss Grand Prix|SUI]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1952 Indianapolis 500|500]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1952 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]<br><small>Ret</small> | bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| [[1952 French Grand Prix|FRA]]<br><small>6</small> | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1952 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1952 German Grand Prix|GER]]<br><small>DNS</small> | bgcolor="#ffcfcf"| [[1952 Dutch Grand Prix|NED]]<br><small>DNQ</small> | [[1952 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]] | | | ! NC ! 0 |- | [[1953 Formula One season|1953]] ! [[Hersham and Walton Motors|HW Motors]] ! [[Hersham and Walton Motors|HWM]] [[HWM 53|53]] ! [[Alta (automobile)|Alta]] | [[1953 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]] | [[1953 Indianapolis 500|500]] | bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| [[1953 Dutch Grand Prix|NED]]<br><small>8</small> | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1953 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]<br><small>Ret</small> | bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| [[1953 French Grand Prix|FRA]]<br><small>13</small> | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1953 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1953 German Grand Prix|GER]] | [[1953 Swiss Grand Prix|SUI]] | [[1953 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]] | | ! NC ! 0 |- | [[1954 Formula One season|1954]] ! [[Tony Vandervell|G A Vandervell]] ! [[Vanwall|Vanwall Special]] ! [[Vanwall]] | [[1954 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]] | [[1954 Indianapolis 500|500]] | [[1954 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]] | [[1954 French Grand Prix|FRA]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"| [[1954 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1954 German Grand Prix|GER]] | [[1954 Swiss Grand Prix|SUI]] | bgcolor="#CFCFFF"| [[1954 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]<br><small>7</small> | [[1954 Spanish Grand Prix|ESP]]<br><small>DNS</small> | | ! NC ! 0 |- | rowspan="2" |[[1955 Formula One season|1955]] ! [[Owen Racing Organisation]] ! [[Maserati]] [[Maserati 250F|250F]] ! [[Maserati]] | [[1955 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]] | [[1955 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]] | [[1955 Indianapolis 500|500]] | [[1955 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]] | [[1955 Dutch Grand Prix|NED]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" | [[1955 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>Ret</small> | | | | | ! rowspan="2" |NC ! rowspan="2" |0 |- ! [[Maserati|Officine Alfieri Maserati]] ! [[Maserati]] [[Maserati 250F|250F]] ! [[Maserati]] | | | | | | | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" |[[1955 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]<br><small>Ret</small> | | | | |- | rowspan="2" |[[1956 Formula One season|1956]] ! rowspan="2" |[[Scuderia Ferrari]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] [[Ferrari 555|555]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF" |[[1956 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]]<br><small>Ret</small> | | | | | | | | | | | rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FFDF9F" |'''3rd''' | rowspan="2" bgcolor="#FFDF9F" |'''25''' |- ! [[Lancia in Formula One|Lancia]]-[[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] [[Lancia-Ferrari D50|D50]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] | | bgcolor="#DFDFDF"|[[1956 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]<br><small>2*</small> | [[1956 Indianapolis 500|500]] | bgcolor="#FFFFBF"|[[1956 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]<br><small>1</small> | bgcolor="#FFFFBF"|[[1956 French Grand Prix|FRA]]<br><small>1</small> | bgcolor="#DFDFDF"|[[1956 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>2 *</small> | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1956 German Grand Prix|GER]]<br><small>Ret *</small> | bgcolor="#DFDFDF"|[[1956 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]<br><small>2 *</small> | | | |- | rowspan="2"|[[1957 Formula One season|1957]] ! rowspan="2"|[[Scuderia Ferrari]] ! [[Lancia in Formula One|Lancia]]-[[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] [[Lancia-Ferrari D50|D50]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] | bgcolor="#CFCFFF"|[[1957 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]]<br><small>6 *</small> | | | | | | | | | | ! rowspan="2"|9th ! rowspan="2"|8 |- ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] [[Ferrari 801|801]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] | | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1957 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1957 Indianapolis 500|500]] | bgcolor="#FFDF9F"|[[1957 French Grand Prix|FRA]]<br><small>3</small> | bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|[[1957 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>4 *</small> | bgcolor="#FFDF9F"|[[1957 German Grand Prix|GER]]<br><small>3</small> | [[1957 Pescara Grand Prix|PES]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1957 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]]<br><small>Ret</small> | | | |- | [[1958 Formula One season|1958]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] [[Ferrari Dino 246|Dino 246]] ! [[Scuderia Ferrari|Ferrari]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1958 Argentine Grand Prix|ARG]]<br><small>Ret</small> | bgcolor="#FFDF9F"|[[1958 Monaco Grand Prix|MON]]<br><small>3</small> | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1958 Dutch Grand Prix|NED]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1958 Indianapolis 500|500]] | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1958 Belgian Grand Prix|BEL]]<br><small>Ret</small> | bgcolor="#DFFFDF"|[[1958 French Grand Prix|FRA]]<br><small>5</small> | bgcolor="#FFFFBF"|[[1958 British Grand Prix|GBR]]<br><small>1</small> | bgcolor="#EFCFFF"|[[1958 German Grand Prix|GER]]<br><small>Ret</small> | [[1958 Portuguese Grand Prix|POR]] | [[1958 Italian Grand Prix|ITA]] | [[1958 Moroccan Grand Prix|MOR]] ! 5th ! 14 |} {{start box}} {{succession box|title=[[List of Formula One fatal accidents|Formula One fatal accidents]] |before=[[Luigi Musso]]|after=[[Stuart Lewis-Evans]]|years=August 3, 1958}} {{s-sports}} {{succession box|title=[[BRDC International Trophy|BRDC International Trophy winner]] |before=[[José Froilán González]]|after=[[Stirling Moss]]|years=1955}} {{succession box|title=[[BRDC International Trophy|BRDC International Trophy winner]] |before=[[Jean Behra]]|after=[[Jack Brabham]]|years=1958}} {{end box}} ==External links== *[http://www.500race.org The 500 Owners Association] {{DEFAULTSORT:Collins, Peter}} [[Category:1931 births]] [[Category:1958 deaths]] [[Category:People from Kidderminster]] [[Category:English racecar drivers]] [[Category:English Formula One drivers]] [[Category:Ferrari Formula One drivers]] [[Category:Racecar drivers killed while racing]] [[Category:Mille Miglia drivers]] [[Category:Old Bromsgrovians]] [[Category:Sport deaths in Germany]]

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