Trevor Blokdyk

Trevor Blokdyk

Born	(1935-11-30)30 November 1935 Krugersdorp, Transvaal, South Africa
Died	19 March 1995(1995-03-19) (aged 59) Hekpoort, near Krugersdorp, South Africa
Formula One World Championship career
Nationality	South African
Active years	1963, 1965
Teams	non-works Cooper
Entries	2 (1 start)
First entry	1963 South African Grand Prix
Last entry	1965 South African Grand Prix

Speedway career

Career history
1958–1959	Poole Pirates
1961–1962	Ipswich Witches
1962	Leicester Hunters

John Trevor Blokdyk (30 November 1935 – 19 March 1995) was a South African motorcycle speedway rider and Formula One driver who participated in two World Championship Grands Prix, although qualifying for only one. He earned 6 caps for the South Africa national speedway team.

Career

Blokdyk rode in speedway in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s for Poole Pirates and Ipswich Witches. In 1962 he signed for Leicester Hunters but after one match for the team announced that he was quitting speedway to concentrate on motor racing.

Blokdyk competed in Formula One for the first time in the non-Championship Rand Grand Prix at Kyalami in 1961, in a Cooper, but spun out early on. He was more successful at his next race, the Natal Grand Prix at Westmead, where he finished eighth.

Coventry Bees attempted to sign him from Ipswich Witches in June 1962 but failed to contact him to seal the transfer.

In late 1962, Blokdyk went to Europe to pursue a career in Formula Junior and was soon a front-runner, until he ran short of finances and returned to South Africa. In 1963 he started his only World Championship race at East London, driving a three-year-old Cooper-Maserati prepared by Scuderia Lupini, and coming in 12th. He also finished third in the Mozambique Grand Prix in 1963 and 1964.

He continued in the South African Formula One Championship in 1964 and then moved back to Europe and drove in Formula 3, scoring some good results, including a win at Magny-Cours and Nogaro. He returned to South Africa for the 1964 Rand Grand Prix, where he retired his Cooper-Alfa Romeo with engine problems, and he failed to qualify for the 1965 South African Grand Prix.

Later in 1965 he continued in European Formula 3, and suffered serious pelvic and leg injuries in a crash at Albi which ended his season. On his return in 1966, he finished sixth at Rouen-Les-Essarts, and continued to race in Europe in F3 until 1969, before returning permanently to compete in South Africa. On his retirement he became a farmer, but died following a heart attack aged 59.

Complete Formula One World Championship results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	WDC	Points
1963	Scuderia Lupini	Cooper T51	Maserati Straight-4	MON	BEL	NED	FRA	GBR	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	RSA 12	NC	0
1965	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper T59	Ford Straight-4	RSA DNQ	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	NC	0
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Complete Formula One non-championship results

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
1961	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper T52	Ford	LOM	GLV	PAU	BRX	VIE	AIN	SYR	NAP	LON	SIL	SOL	KAN	DAN	MOD	FLG	OUL	LEW	VAL	RAN Ret	NAT 8	RSA
1962	Hoffman Racing Team	Cooper T59	Alfa Romeo	CAP	BRX	LOM	LAV	GLV	PAU	AIN	INT	NAP	MAL	CLP	RMS	SOL	KAN	MED	DAN	OUL	MEX	RAN DNQ	NAT Ret
1963	Scuderia Lupini	Cooper T51	Maserati	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO	SYR	AIN	INT	ROM	SOL	KAN	MED	AUT	OUL	RAN Ret
1964	Hoffman Racing	Cooper T59	Alfa Romeo	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT	SOL	MED	RAN Ret
1965	Hoffman Racing	Cooper T59	Ford	CAP NC	ROC	SYR	SMT	INT	MED	RAN