5-579: Scuderia Scribante , also known as Neville Lederle Team and Lucky Strike Racing was a South African F1 entrant established in 1961. The team was co-founded by South African driver Neville Lederle and Aldo Scribante, an Italian immigrant who owned a construction company in Johannesburg . The team mostly competed in the South African Grand Prix from 1962 to 1975. After fielding a Lotus customer car, Scribante ran Jack Brabham on
10-799: A single championship point. Lederle was born in Theunissen , Orange Free State and schooled at St Andrews in Bloemfontein. Starting out in Formula One with his Ford -engined Lotus 18 in 1961, he retired from the Rand Grand Prix and only managed 14th in the Cape Grand Prix in January 1962. Later that year, however, he acquired a Lotus 21 with a Climax engine and came fifth in the 1962 Rand Grand Prix and fourth in
15-845: The Natal Grand Prix . This form led him to a sixth place in the World Championship South African Grand Prix and thus a World Championship point in his first event at that level. In 1963 Lederle broke a leg in practice for the Rand 9 Hours sports car race and missed a large part of the 1964 season whilst recovering. He returned with his Lotus 21 for the end-of-season 1964 Rand Grand Prix where he finished 10th, but he narrowly failed to qualify for January's 1965 South African Grand Prix . After this disappointment, Lederle effectively retired from racing to concentrate on business interests, which included
20-669: The occasion of the Rand Grand Prix in 1965. Brabham won the non-championship race, and Scribante agreed on switching to Brabham cars for the following two seasons. In 1970 Scribante returned to Lotus and purchased the Lotus 49 who had won the Formula One World Championship with Graham Hill in 1968. The very same year Dave Charlton won the South African Formula One Championship , the first of six consecutive titles. In 1972
25-598: The team decided to enter three European Formula One races with scarce results. In 1975 Aldo Scribante founded the Aldo Scribante Circuit in Port Elizabeth . ( key ) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in italics indicate fastest lap.) Neville Lederle Neville Lederle (25 September 1938 – 17 May 2019) was a racing driver from South Africa . He participated in two World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, scoring
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