Trevor Blokdyk

Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates {{#invoke:Infobox|infobox}}Template:Template other{{#invoke:Check for unknown parameters | check | ignoreblank = y | unknown = Template:Main other | preview = Page using Template:Infobox F1 driver with unknown parameter "_VALUE_" | embed | child | subbox | name | Name | image | Image | image_size | upright | image_upright | alt | caption | birth_name | birth_date | birth_place | death_date | death_place | relations | relatives | nationality | Nationality | years | Years | teams | Teams | Team(s) | team | Team | engines | Engines | current_team | current team | Current team | 2025 Team | 2026 Team | car_number | car number | Car number | races | Races | championships | Championships | wins | Wins | podiums | Podiums | points | Points | poles | Poles | fastest_laps | fastest laps | Fastest laps | first_race | first race | First race | first_win | first win | First win | last_win | last win | Last win | last_race | last race | Last race | last_position | last position | Last position | last_season | last season | Last season | bf1_years | bf1 years | BF1 Years | bf1_races | bf1 races | BF1 Races | bf1_championships | bf1 championships | BF1 Championships | bf1_wins | bf1 wins | BF1 Wins | bf1_podiums | bf1 podiums | BF1 Podiums | bf1_points | bf1 points | BF1 Points | bf1_poles | bf1 poles | BF1 Poles | bf1_fastest_laps | bf1 fastest laps | BF1 Fastest laps | signature | signature_size | signature alt | signature_alt | website | module | module1 | module2 | module3 | module4 | module5 | record template1 | record template2 | record template3 | record template4 | record template5 | career template1 | career template2 | career template3 | career template4 | career template5 | updated | Updated }} Template:Infobox Speedway rider John Trevor Blokdyk (30 November 1935 – 19 March 1995)<ref name="mm" /> was a South African motorcycle speedway rider<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Formula One driver who participated in two World Championship Grands Prix, although qualifying for only one.<ref name="Small">Template:Cite book</ref> He earned 6 caps for the South Africa national speedway team.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Career

Blokdyk rode in speedway in Britain in the late 1950s and early 1960s for Poole Pirates and Ipswich Witches.<ref name="Jones">Jones, Alan (2004) Speedway in Leicester: The Hunters Era, Automedia, p. 145</ref> 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.<ref name="Jones" />

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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was more successful at his next race, the Natal Grand Prix at Westmead, where he finished eighth.<ref name="gp">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Coventry Bees attempted to sign him from Ipswich Witches in June 1962 but failed to contact him to seal the transfer.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

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.<ref name="Small" /> 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.<ref name="gp" /> He also finished third in the Mozambique Grand Prix in 1963 and 1964.<ref name="mm">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name="gp" /> 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.<ref name="gp" />

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.<ref name="Small" /> 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.<ref name="Small" /> On his retirement he became a farmer, but died following a heart attack aged 59.<ref name="gp" />

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 Template:Small	NC	0
1965	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper T59	Ford Straight-4	RSA Template:Small	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
Template:F1	Trevor Blokdyk	Cooper T52	Ford	LOM	GLV	PAU	BRX	VIE	AIN	SYR	NAP	LON	SIL	SOL	KAN	DAN	MOD	FLG	OUL	LEW	VAL	RAN Template:Small	NAT Template:Small	RSA
Template:F1	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 Template:Small	NAT Template:Small
Template:F1	Scuderia Lupini	Cooper T51	Maserati	LOM	GLV	PAU	IMO	SYR	AIN	INT	ROM	SOL	KAN	MED	AUT	OUL	RAN Template:Small
Template:F1	Hoffman Racing	Cooper T59	Alfa Romeo	DMT	NWT	SYR	AIN	INT	SOL	MED	RAN Template:Small
Template:F1	Hoffman Racing	Cooper T59	Ford	CAP Template:Small	ROC	SYR	SMT	INT	MED	RAN