John Campbell-Jones | The “forgotten” drivers of F1

Michael John Churchill Campbell-Jones (born 21 January 1930, in Leatherhead, Surrey – died 24 March 2020, inCamden, London) is a former Formula One driver from England.
He participated in two World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on 17 June 1962. He scored no championship points. He also participated in numerous non-Championship Formula One races. Info from Wiki

Bio by Stephen Latham
John Campbell-Jones raced a Lotus 11 sports car in British club events from 1957 before moving to F2 and F1.
Although injured at Modena in 1961 he returned for his World Championship debut with Emeryson in the 1962 Belgian Grand Prix. Unfortunately the car’s gearbox failed in practice but the team borrowed a Lotus 18-Climax and he went on to finish 11th. He also competed in non championship F1 races though was badly burnt in an accident during qualifying for the 1962 Solitude Grand Prix.
In 1963 he drove Tim Parnell’s Lola Mk4 in the British GP at Silverstone and finished 13th. Further drives included a BRP-Climax in the 1966 Oulton Park Gold Cup.

I posted about John Campbell Jones’s F1 races but he competed in numerous national and international races.He started racing in 1957, with a Lotus Eleven, and won a BARC race at Mallory Park and a National at Oulton Park plus was third at a National Brands Hatch race.
The following year, still racing the Lotus Eleven, he won at Goodwood, finished second at the Scott Brown Memorial race at Snetterton and at a Mallory Park BARC race plus was fourth at the Daily Express race at Silverstone. Racing an OSCA for the Scuderia Viking Anglo Swedish Racing Team, he (and co driver Jon Fast) finished 11th in the 1000km Nurburgring race plus there was a third place finish in a Cooper at a National race at Brands Hatch.

In 1959 he came 3rd at a Preliminary Roskilde Ring race, in a Lotus 17, while in the Lotus Eleven he took a fifth place at Goodwood, eighth at the Trophy d’Auvergne and (with co driver John Horride) finished 16th in the Lotus Eleven at the 1000km Nurburgring.

In his first race of 1960 he raced a Cooper to 4th place at a Snetterton Formula Libre race and later took second in a Cooper F2 in the Leinster Trophy.
1961 saw him take eighth place in a Lotus Elite in the Trophee d’Auvergne.

Bio by Udo Klinkel

John Campbell-Jones has been a frequent guest at relevant races in England since 1957 with sports and GT cars from the Lotus brand. In the Lotus Eleven alone he completes 28 starts, mainly in British club races. Internationally, you can see him at the 12-hour race in Reims, in Vila Real, in Monthléry, Zeltweg, at the Targa Florio and on the Avus, in Berlin where he finished fourth overall at the 1958 Berlin Grand Prize.

In 1959 his focus was on Formula 2, for which he bought a Cooper T43. The best result is a third place in the “Coupe de Salon” in Monthléry. He achieved further results in Pau, Clermont-Ferrand and Snetterton.

In 1962 he made the step into Formula 1 and joined the Emeryson team. He’s not competitive with the car, but at least he managed to get two good positions in the races in Brussels and Aintree, which don’t count towards the world championship. A year later he is sitting in the Lola-Climax Mk. 4 of Reg Parnell’s Team. With this car he took part in the British Grand Prix, but did not get better than 13th place.

He ended his career in the mid-1960s but remained involved in racing in the form of historic events, in which he frequently participated.

John Campbell-Jones passed away in March 2020 at the age of 90.

Interview by David Holland

Gallery Other F1

Name:	John	Surname:	Campbell-Jones
Country:	United Kingdom	Entries:	2
Starts:	2	Podiums:	0
Fastest laps:	0	Points:	0
Start year:	1962	End year:	1963
Active years:	2

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