John Love (racing driver)

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John Maxwell Lineham Love (7 December 1924 – 25 April 2005) was a Rhodesian racing driver. He participated in 10 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 29 December 1962. He achieved one podium, and scored a total of six championship points. He also won the 1962 British Saloon Car Championship, now known as the British Touring Car Championship.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> All but one of his Formula One entries were in races held within Africa, either as championship or non-championship rounds.

Love was born in Bulawayo. He attended Gifford High School.<ref name=SRRSS>Template:Citation</ref> He started his car racing career in a single-seat Cooper F3 with a Manx Norton 500 cc engine after racing a Triumph Grand Prix motorcycle, which Love then-allowed Jim Redman to ride when starting his race career, in recognition of Redman's assistance in preparing and maintaining Love's Cooper.<ref name="Carrick">Carrick, Peter. Motor Cycle Racing Hamlyn Publishing, 1969, p. 72; Template:ISBN; retrieved 13 February 2014.</ref>

Six times South African Formula One Champion in the 1960s, he had originally shone in the European Formula Junior firmament back in 1961–62 at the wheel of a Cooper-Austin from Ken Tyrrell's team. An unfortunate accident at Albi resulted in a very badly broken arm and effectively thwarted his chances of moving into full-time Formula One, but he came close when he was nominated as Phil Hill's replacement in the works Cooper team for the 1964 Italian Grand Prix at Monza.Template:Citation needed

He was a regular contestant in the South African Grand Prix from 1965 to 1972. He was leading the 1967 South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in his 2.7 L Climax-engined Cooper, when a misfire prompted him to make a precautionary stop for extra fuel. He dropped back to finish second behind the works Cooper-Maserati of Pedro Rodríguez.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Love would dominate racing in southern Africa in the 1960s, winning the South African Formula One Championship six times in succession from 1964 to 1969. He would also win his home race, the Rhodesian Grand Prix, six times.Template:Citation needed

He owned the Jaguar dealership in Bulawayo and had his own stock car racing team in the 1980s.Template:Citation needed He died in 2005, aged 80, from cancer, in Bulawayo.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Racing record

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	WDC	Points
1962	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	NED	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	RSA Template:Small					NC	0
1963	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA Template:Small				NC	0
1964	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T73	Climax FWMV 1.5 V8	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA Template:Small	USA	MEX				NC	0
1965	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax FPF 1.5 L4	RSA Template:Small	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX				NC	0
1967	John Love	Cooper T79	Climax FPF 2.7 L4	RSA Template:Small	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	CAN	ITA	USA	MEX			11th	6
1968	Team Gunston	Brabham BT20	Repco-Brabham RB620 3.0 V8	RSA Template:Small	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX		NC	0
1969	Team Gunston	Lotus 49	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	RSA Template:Small	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX			NC	0
1970	Team Gunston	Lotus 49	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	RSA Template:Small	ESP	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA	MEX	NC	0
1971	Team Peco/Gunston	March 701	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	RSA Template:Small	ESP	MON	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA			NC	0
1972	Team Gunston	Surtees TS9	Ford Cosworth DFV 3.0 V8	ARG	RSA Template:Small	ESP	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	GER	AUT	ITA	CAN	USA		NC	0

Complete Formula One non-championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
1961	A.H. Pillman	LDS Mk1	Porsche Flat-4	LOM	GLV	PAU	BRX	VIE	AIN	SYR	NAP	LON	SIL	SOL	KAN	DAN	MOD	FLG	OUL	LEW	VAL	RAN Template:Small	NAT Template:Small	RSA Template:Small
1962	A.H. Pillman	LDS Mk1	Porsche Flat-4	CAP Template:Small	BRX	LOM	LAV	GLV	PAU	AIN	INT	NAP	MAL	CLP	RMS	SOL	KAN	MED	DAN	OUL	MEX	RAN
	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax Straight-4																				NAT Template:Small
1963	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax Straight-4	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO	SYR	AIN	INT	ROM	SOL	KAN	MED	AUT	OUL	RAN Template:Small
1964	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax Straight-4	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT	SOL	MED	RAN Template:Small
1965	John Love	Cooper T55	Climax Straight-4	CAP Template:Small	ROC	SYR	SMT	INT	MED
		Cooper T79								RAN Template:Small
1966	John Love	Cooper T79	Climax Straight-4	RSA Template:Small	SYR	INT	OUL

Complete British Saloon Car Championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position; races in italics indicate fastest lap.)

Year	Team	Car	Class	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Pts	Class
1962	Cooper Car Co.	Morris Mini Cooper	Template:Tooltip	SNE ovr:? cls:1	GOO Ret	AIN ovr:11 cls:1	SIL ovr:7 cls:1	CRY ovr:5 cls:1							1st	58	1st
		Austin Mini Cooper							AIN ovr:6 cls:1	BRH ovr:6 cls:1	OUL ovr:? cls:1
1963	Cooper Car Co.	Morris Mini Cooper	Template:Tooltip	SNE	OUL	GOO ovr:? cls:?	AIN	SIL	CRY	SIL	BRH	BRH	OUL	SIL	NC	0	NC
1964	Cooper Car Co.	Austin Mini Cooper S	Template:Tooltip	SNE	GOO	OUL	AIN	SIL	CRY	BRH	OUL Ret				NC	0	NC
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External links

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