Drivers/United Kingdom
Innes Ireland
- 1959–1966
- IRE
- Born 12 June 1930 in Mytholmroyd
- Died 22 October 1993
- Robert McGregor Innes Ireland
- Starts5053 entries
- Wins12% of starts
- Podiums48% of starts
- Pole positions00× started from P1
- Fastest laps1
- Titles0best finish P4
Career numbers
- Avg grid position10.3
- Avg finish6.9
- Retirement rate48%
- Pole-to-win conversion–
- Positions gained+60
- Points scored47
- Longest winning streak1
- Longest podium streak1
- Longest points-scoring streak3
- TeamsLotus (1959–1965) · BRP (1963–1964) · BRM (1966)
Pole position means the fastest time in qualifying. That is not the same as a start from P1 – grid penalties move a driver down the grid. Up to the 2000s the two numbers coincide.
The career at a glance
Season by season
Every race
53 entries, 50 of them started. DNQ: did not qualify; DNS: did not start; DNF: retired.
- First entryDutch Grand Prix 1959P4 · Lotus
- First winUnited States Grand Prix 1961P1 · Lotus
- Last startMexican Grand Prix 1966DNF · BRM
All 53 races, season by season
Against team-mates
Same car, same races. In the race only those where both reached the finish count – a retirement says nothing about the head-to-head.
| Team-mate | Years | Races | Qualifying | Quali gap | Points | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jim Clark | 1960–1965 | 4:7 | 7:21 | +1.27% | 31 : 84 | Compare |
| Trevor Taylor | 1962–1964 | 1:2 | 12:3 | −1.37% | 4 : 8 | Compare |
| Stirling Moss | 1960–1961 | 1:2 | 1:9 | +1.31% | 25 : 28 | Compare |
| Masten Gregory | 1961–1962 | 1:2 | 6:2 | −0.50% | 18 : 1 | Compare |
| Mike Spence | 1965 | 1:2 | 0:6 | +2.07% | 0 : 3 | Compare |
| Richard Attwood | 1965 | 2:1 | 2:3 | +1.21% | 0 : 1 | Compare |
| Graham Hill | 1959–1966 | 1:0 | 0:7 | +2.15% | 3 : 0 | Compare |
| Jack Brabham | 1962–1963 | 0:1 | 3:3 | −0.17% | 0 : 3 | Compare |
| Alan Stacey | 1959–1960 | 0:0 | 5:0 | −2.89% | 9 : 0 | Compare |
| Maurice Trintignant | 1962 | 0:0 | 4:1 | −2.34% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Wolfgang Seidel | 1961–1962 | 1:0 | 4:0 | −6.17% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Jim Hall | 1960–1963 | 1:0 | 4:0 | −1.44% | 15 : 2 | Compare |
| John Surtees | 1960 | 0:1 | 2:2 | −0.23% | 11 : 6 | Compare |
| Lucien Bianchi | 1961–1962 | 0:0 | 4:0 | −4.89% | 3 : 0 | Compare |
| Jo Siffert | 1962–1963 | 0:0 | 3:1 | −3.92% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Henry Taylor | 1961 | 1:0 | 3:0 | −3.92% | 3 : 0 | Compare |
| Ian Burgess | 1961 | 2:0 | 2:0 | −5.85% | 3 : 0 | Compare |
| Tony Maggs | 1961 | 1:0 | 2:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Gerry Ashmore | 1961 | 0:0 | 3:0 | −7.07% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Alberto Rodriguez Larreta | 1960 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 1 : 0 | Compare |
| Willy Mairesse | 1961 | 0:0 | 2:0 | – | 3 : 0 | Compare |
| Ron Flockhart | 1960 | 0:1 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 1 | Compare |
| Michael May | 1961 | 1:0 | 1:0 | −5.13% | 3 : 0 | Compare |
| Tony Marsh | 1961 | 0:0 | 2:0 | −2.56% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| David Piper | 1960 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 4 : 0 | Compare |
| Tim Parnell | 1961 | 0:0 | 2:0 | −12.87% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Jay Chamberlain | 1962 | 0:1 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Jackie Stewart | 1966 | 0:0 | 0:2 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Neville Lederle | 1962 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 2 : 1 | Compare |
| Ernest Pieterse | 1962 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 2 : 0 | Compare |
| Peter Ryan | 1961 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 9 : 0 | Compare |
| Olivier Gendebien | 1961 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 9 : 0 | Compare |
| Roger Penske | 1962 | 1:0 | 0:1 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Rob Schroeder | 1962 | 1:0 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| John Campbell-Jones | 1962 | 0:0 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Chris Amon | 1965 | 0:0 | 0:1 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Bernard Collomb | 1963 | 0:0 | 1:0 | −7.55% | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Tony Shelly | 1962 | 0:0 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Gaetano Starrabba | 1961 | 0:0 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Nino Vaccarella | 1962 | 0:0 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Giacomo Russo | 1965 | 0:0 | 1:0 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
| Lloyd Ruby | 1961 | 0:0 | 1:0 | – | 9 : 0 | Compare |
| Moisés Solana | 1965 | 0:0 | 0:1 | – | 0 : 0 | Compare |
Green: Innes Ireland came out ahead in that duel. Quali gap: the median difference in the last session both set a time in, as a share of the lap – minus is faster. At least three sessions; a dash where there were fewer.
Strongest circuits
Circuits with at least two starts, most wins first.
| Circuit | Starts | Wins | Podiums | Avg finish |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Watkins Glen | 5 | 1 | 1 | 4.5 |
| Monza | 6 | 6 | ||
| Spa-Francorchamps | 6 | 11.5 | ||
| Zandvoort | 5 | 1 | 5 | |
| Reims-Gueux | 4 | 6.7 | ||
| Monaco | 3 | 9 | ||
| Silverstone | 3 | 1 | 3 | |
| Aintree | 2 | 13 | ||
| Nürburgring | 2 | – | ||
| Rouen-Les-Essarts | 2 | – | ||
| Hermanos Rodríguez | 2 | 12 |