The 1st August Cup was a motor race, run to Formula One rules, held on 2 August 1954 at Crystal Palace Circuit, London. The race was run over two heats of 10 laps and a final of 10 laps, and was won by British driver Reg Parnell in a Ferrari 500.
Parnell started from pole position in Heat 1 and set fastest lap in the heat, and also in the final. Connaught driver Tony Rolt started from pole position in Heat 2 and won, while Tony Crook set fastest lap in that heat in a Cooper.
Maserati driver Roy Salvadori was second in the final and Rolt was third.
The name of the event is referred to in at least one source as the August Trophy Race.
Entries No. Driver Entrant Car 3 Reg Parnell Scuderia Ambrosiana Ferrari 500 4 Tony Rolt R.R.C. Walker Racing Team Connaught Type A-Lea Francis 5 Horace Gould Gould's Garage (Bristol) Cooper T23-Bristol 6 Tony Crook T.A.D. Crook Cooper T24-Bristol 7 Keith Hall Border Reivers Cooper T20-Bristol 8 Jack Fairman J.H. Webb Turner-Lea Francis 9 Paul Emery Emeryson Cars Emeryson Mk.1-Alta 10 Roy Salvadori Gilby Engineering Maserati 250F 11 Horace Richards H.A. Richards H.A.R.-Riley 12 Ted Whiteaway E.N. Whiteaway HWM-Alta 14 Geoff Richardson G.N. Richardson RRA-Alta 15 Gerry Dunham C.G.H. Dunham DHS-Alvis 16 Oliver Simpson Ron Searles Rover 18 Ron Searles Ron Searles Cooper-JAP
Results Heats
Heat 1 Pos Driver Car Time/Ret. Grid 1 Reg Parnell Ferrari 11:18.8, 73.81mph 1 2 Roy Salvadori Maserati +8.0s 2 3 Horace Gould Cooper-Bristol +28.0s 3 4 Keith Hall Cooper-Bristol 10 laps 4 5 Paul Emery Emeryson-Alta 10 laps 6 6 Gerry Dunham DHS-Alvis 5 7 Horace Richards H.A.R.-Riley 7Heat 2 Pos Driver Car Time/Ret. Grid 1 Tony Rolt Connaught-Alta 11:47.4, 70.78mph 1 2 Tony Crook Cooper-Bristol +17.6s 2 3 Jack Fairman Turner-Lea Francis +26.4s 4 4 Ted Whiteaway HWM-Alta 10 laps 3 5 Geoff Richardson RRA-Alta 6 6 Oliver Simpson Rover 7 7 Ron Searles Cooper-JAP 5
Final
Pos. Driver Car Time/Retired Grid 1 Reg Parnell Ferrari 11:10.8, 74.59mph 1 2 Roy Salvadori Maserati +3.2s 2 3 Tony Rolt Connaught-Lea Francis +29.0s 4 4 Horace Gould Maserati +37.0s 3 5 Keith Hall Cooper-Bristol +37.6s 5 6 Ted Whiteaway HWM-Alta 10 laps 8 7 Tony Crook Cooper-Bristol 10 laps 7 8 Jack Fairman Turner-Lea francis 11 9 Paul Emery Emeryson-Alta 6 Ret Geoff Richardson RRA-Alta 10 DNS Gerry Dunham DHS-Alvis 9 DNQ Horace Richards HAR-Riley - DNQ Oliver Simpson Rover - DNQ Ron Searles Cooper-JAP -
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