Carel Godin de Beaufort

I took this photograph during practice for the British Grand Prix at Aintree in July 1962.

It's the late Carel Godin de Beaufort approaching Waterway corner in his privately entered 1½ litre flat-4 1960 Porsche 718/2, a car that was a  development of the 718 sports car and originally intended as a Formula 2 car. When the regulations for the World Drivers' Championship were changed with effect from the 1961 season limiting engine capacities to 1½ litres Porsche participated in the Grands Prix with cars driven by Dan Gurney and Jo Bonnier and Carel Godin de Beaufort entered his car under the name of his own  Ecurie Maarsbergen team. In 1962 the Porsche factory progressed to the new 1½ litre flat-8 Porsche 804, but Carel Godin de Beaufort continued to campaign his 718/2 and at the British Grand Prix that year he qualified his car in seventeenth place on the grid and finished the race in fourteenth place.

During practice for the German Grand Prix in August 1964 at the Nürburgring Carel Godin de Beaufort left the track at the Bergwerk corner in his Porsche 718/2 and was thrown out of the car sustaining injuries from which he died in hospital the following day.