Count
Louis Zborowski (20 February 1895 – 19 October 1924) was a racing driver and automobile engineer.
Biography
His father, Count
William Eliot Morris Zborowski (1858–1903) was also a racing driver, and died in a racing crash, in 1903 at
La Turbie Hillclimb in France near
Nice. His mother was a wealthy
American heiress, born Margaret Laura Astor Carey (1853–1911), a granddaughter of
William Backhouse Astor, Sr. of the prominent
Astor family. She had been Madame de Stuers before her divorce and marriage in 1882 to Count Eliot Zborowski.
He lived at
Higham Park, a country estate at
Bridge near
Canterbury in
Kent.
Zborowski was killed when he hit a tree during the
Italian GP.
Racing career
Louis Zborowski's career as an amateur racing driver encompassed a wide experience of marques and events.
He was an early patron of
Aston Martin, and raced for them at
Brooklands and in the 1923 French Grand Prix.
In the 1923
Indianapolis 500 he drove a
Bugatti.
He drove in the 1923
Italian Grand Prix at
Monza in a car designed by American engineer
Harry Arminius Miller, the single seat "American Miller 122".
Louis Zborowski joined the
Mercedes team in 1924 but died in one of their cars, after hitting a tree during the
Italian Grand Prix. He was just 29 years old.
Indy 500 results
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Car designs
Zborowski designed and built four of his own racing cars in the stables at Higham...
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