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Les Leston Great Britain
- Full name Alfred Lazarus Fingleston
- Birth date December 16, 1920
- Birthplace Bulwell, Nottingham, Great Britain
- Current age 92 years 159 days
- Teams BRM, Connaught, Cooper
World Championship Career
| Year | Car | Race | Start | Won | Pod | Class | Best | Pole | Front | Best | Lap | Hat | Pts | Pos | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1956 | Connaught | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 19 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||||
| 1957 | Cooper, BRM | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||||
| Total | 3 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Race | Circuit | Date | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| First race | Italian Grand Prix | Monza | September 2, 1956 | Race results |
| Last race | British Grand Prix | Aintree | July 20, 1957 | Race results |
Profile
While his working name wasn't a shadow on that he was christened with - Alfred Lazarus Fingleston - Les Leston began his career racing in a Jaguar SS100 before buying his own Cooper Mk V and then from 1952 a Leston Special in which he won 16 races.
In 1954 he was signed as a Cooper works driver and that year he won the Formula 3 championship. He continued to drive in a variety of formula, with his two Formula One World Championship races coming in 1956 and 1957. He failed to finish either, and did not qualify in a third. He won the British saloon car championship in 1958 and the British GT series in 1961.
While racing he built up a very successful motor accessory company but in the early 1970s he moved to Hong Kong where he worked as a broadcaster before returning to England in the 1980s.
Martin Williamson November 2009
