Peter Ashdown

Former F1 driver


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Name = Peter Ashdown
Nationality = flagicon|UK British
Years = F1|1959
Team(s) = non-works Cooper
Races = 1
Championships = 0
Wins = 0
Podiums = 0
Points = 0
Poles = 0
Fastest laps = 0
First race = 1959 British Grand Prix
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Last race = 1959 British Grand Prix

Peter Hawthorn Ashdown (born 16 October 1934, Danbury, Essex)cite web|title= Drivers: Peter Ashdown |url= http://www.chicanef1.com/indiv.pl?name=Peter%20Ashdown&type=d |work= ChicaneF1.com |accessdate= 2007-11-27] is a former motor racing driver. He drove in a single Formula One World Championship Grand Prix, racing a Cooper.

Prior to Formula One, he was one of the leaders of the British Formula Junior scene, but an accident at Rouen-Les-Essarts in 1958, in which he broke his collarbone, considerably hampered his career.cite web|title= Driver: Ashdown, Peter |url= http://www.chicanef1.com/indiv.pl?name=Peter%20Ashdown&type=d |work= Autocourse Grand Prix Archive |accessdate= 2007-11-27] He continued racing in a Formula 2 Cooper-Climax entered by Alan Brown at the 1959 British Grand Prix at Aintree. From there he drove a Formula Junior Lola and many small-engined sports cars, winning his class in the 1960 and 1962 1000km Nürburgring. He retired in 1962.

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