Roy Pierpoint (15 May 1929 – 12 January 2023)[1] was a British racing driver who drove in saloons and sports cars.
His first race was in 1949, at a BARC meeting driving a Fiat 1100 special, which he built himself: "very neat was Pierpont's (sic) F.I.A.T.
1,100 with aerodynamic but not all-enveloping bodywork, two Amal carburetters, a neat silencer in its straight exhaust pipe and an oil-cooler ahead of the main radiator."
Pierpoint was best known for his time driving in the British Saloon Car Championship, with a total of fourteen race wins.
In his first year in 1965, he won the Championship for Alan Mann Racing, driving a V8 4.7-litre Ford Mustang: "After a struggle throughout 1965 against the Austin Mini-Cooper S of Warwick Banks,.."[3] The championship was won after a protest against the car of Jack Brabham, which was found to have illegal modifications.