Tony Rolt

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Tony Rolt
Nationality	British
World Championship Career
Active years	1950, 1953, 1955
Team(s)	privateer ERA, Rob Walker Racing Team
Races	3
Championships	0
Wins	0
Podium finishes	0
Pole positions	0
Fastest laps	0
First race	1950 British Grand Prix


Last race	1955 British Grand Prix

Anthony Peter Roylance "Tony" Rolt (b. 16 October 1918, Bordon, Hampshire) is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in three Formula One World Championship grands prix but scored no championship points.

Rolt was a POW at Oflag IV-Cin Colditz Castle during the Second World War and was involved in the audacious glider escape plan^[1].

In 1953 he and Duncan Hamilton won the 24 Hours of Le Mans sports car race, driving a Jaguar C-Type.

As of February 2007, Rolt is the only driver alive from those who raced at the first ever Grand Prix, at Silverstone, in 1950.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	WDC	Points
1950	Peter Walker	ERA E-Type	ERA Straight-6	GBR Ret*	MON	500	SUI	BEL	FRA	ITA			-	0
1953	RRC Walker Racing Team	Connaught A Type	Connaught Straight-4	ARG	500	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR Ret	GER	SUI	ITA	-	0
1955	RRC Walker Racing Team	Connaught B Type	Connaught Straight-4	ARG	MON	500	BEL	NED	GBR Ret*	ITA			-	0

* Indicates Shared Drive

Preceded by Hermann Lang Fritz Riess	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1953 Tony Rolt Duncan Hamilton	Succeeded by José Froilán González Maurice Trintignant

^ The Colditz Story. Imperial War Museum.

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