years death_date championships races nationality points birth_date wins poles article_title name podiums
1957 -- 1958 , 1961 7 may 2009 0 5 -lrb- 4 starts -rrb- gbr british 0 20 july 1931 0 0 tony marsh -lrb- racing driver -rrb-
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tony marsh -lrb- racing driver -rrb-

anthony ernest `` tony '' marsh -lrb- 20 july 1931 -- 7 may 2009 -rrb- was a british racing driver from england .
his formula one career was short and unsuccessful , but he enjoyed great success in hillclimbing , winning the british hill climb championship on a record six occasions .
having begun his hillclimbing career in 1953 with a cooper-jap that had previously been driven by peter collins , he won three successive championships in the car from 1955 to 1957 .
in the 1960s , he drove an ex-formula one brm for a time before constructing his own marsh car .
inspired by peter westbury 's ferguson p99 , marsh devised an unusual drivetrain which utilised four-wheel-drive while accelerating but rear-wheel-drive while cornering .
`` once again tony marsh established himself in 1965 as `` king of the hills '' by scoring best time of the day at eight of the nine first championship climbs he entered , and setting new course records at shelsley walsh , bouley bay and longleat .
after winning another hat-trick of championships between 1965 and 1967 , marsh sold his car and left motorsport to concentrate on his engineering and farming interests , but in 1986 he returned at the wheel of the march-based rovercraft .
in 1993 , his co-driver simon law was killed in the car during the brighton speed trials , a tragedy which affected marsh considerably .
he returned with the ex-david render toleman tg191 cosworth dfl , taking the gurston top six title that year , aged 62 .
he continued to compete in hillclimbs well into his seventies , driving on until 2008 .
marsh competed in circuit racing in his earlier years , driving in four grands prix , the last being the 1961 german grand prix in which he drove the lotus 18 he also campaigned in hillclimbs .
he also drove in the 1960 le mans 24 hours , sharing a lotus elite with john wagstaff .
in 2007 parley books published his autobiography : `` tony marsh : the great all-rounder : in and out of motorsport '' .
marsh was born in stourbridge ; he died aged 77 in may 2009 after having been admitted to hospital with breathing complications .
