Tony Rolt

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Tony Rolt
Nationality	British
World Championship Career
Active years	1950, 1953, 1955
Team(s)	privateer ERA, Rob Walker Racing Team
Races	3
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1950 British Grand Prix
Last race	1955 British Grand Prix

Anthony Peter Roylance "Tony" Rolt (b. 16 October 1918, Bordon, Hampshire) is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in three Formula One World Championship grands prix but scored no championship points.

Rolt was a POW at Oflag IV-Cin Colditz Castle during the Second World War and was involved in the audacious glider escape plan^[1].

In 1953 he and Duncan Hamilton won the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race, driving a Jaguar C-Type.

As of February 2007, Rolt is the only driver alive from those who raced at the first ever Grand Prix, at Silverstone, in 1950.

[edit] Complete Formula One Results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	WDC	Points
1950	Peter Walker	ERA E-Type	ERA Straight-6	GBR Ret*	MON	500	SUI	BEL	FRA	ITA			-	0
1953	RRC Walker Racing Team	Connaught A Type	Connaught Straight-4	ARG	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR Ret	GER	SUI	ITA	-	0
1955	RRC Walker Racing Team	Connaught B Type	Connaught Straight-4	ARG	MON	500	BEL	NED	GBR Ret*	ITA			-	0

* Indicates Shared Drive

Preceded by Hermann Lang Fritz Riess

Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1953 Tony Rolt Duncan Hamilton

Succeeded by José Froilán González Maurice Trintignant

[edit] Notes

1. ^ The Colditz Story. Imperial War Museum.