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
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 a single championship point.
Early life
Lederle was born in Theunissen, Oran ...
and Aldo Scribante, an Italian immigrant who owned a construction company in
Johannesburg
Johannesburg ( , , ; Zulu and xh, eGoli ), colloquially known as Jozi, Joburg, or "The City of Gold", is the largest city in South Africa, classified as a megacity, and is one of the 100 largest urban areas in the world. According to Demo ...
. The team mostly competed in the South African Grand Prix from 1962 to 1975. After fielding a
Lotus customer car, Scribante ran
Jack Brabham
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Brabham was a R ...
on the occasion of the
Rand Grand Prix
The Rand Grand Prix was a motor race held at various circuits in South Africa. The first event took place in 1937 but it was not held regularly until the 1960s, when it was run to Formula One rules and formed part of the non-Championship calenda ...
in 1965. Brabham won the non-championship race, and Scribante agreed on switching to
Brabham
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cars for the following two seasons. In 1970 Scribante returned to Lotus and purchased the
Lotus 49
The Lotus 49 was a Formula One racing car designed by Colin Chapman and Maurice Philippe for the 1967 F1 season. It was designed around the Cosworth DFV engine that would power most of the Formula One grid through the 1970s. It was one of the fi ...
who had won the Formula One World Championship with
Graham Hill
Norman Graham Hill (15 February 1929 – 29 November 1975) was a British racing driver and team owner, who was the Formula One World Champion twice, winning in and as well as being runner up on three occasions (1963, 1964 and 1965). Despite ...
in 1968. The very same year
Dave Charlton
David William Charlton (27 October 1936 – 24 February 2013) was a racing driver from South Africa.
Charlton was born in Brotton, Yorkshire. He participated in 13 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 1 January 1965. He scor ...
won the
South African Formula One Championship
The South African Formula One Championship, was a Formula One motor racing championship held in South Africa between 1960 and 1975, including races in Rhodesia and Portuguese Mozambique.
The front-running cars in the series were recently retire ...
, the first of six consecutive titles. In 1972 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
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.
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Complete Formula One World Championship results
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) (Results in bold indicate pole position; results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap.)
References
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Formula One entrants
South African auto racing teams
Auto racing teams established in 1961