Team story
Origins
Paul Emery built and drove his own specials before appearing in the championship. In 1956 he brought an Alta-engined Emeryson to Silverstone but retired. The project had already raced outside the championship: Colin Chapman drove a version in the 1954 International Trophy, while Emery was second in the London Trophy at Crystal Palace in 1956.
The Formula 1 journey
The next phase took shape with Alan Brown. New single-seaters were built for 1961, and Écurie Nationale Belge bought cars which it also used with Maserati engines. Failures to qualify limited the programme.
In 1962 Tony Settember took eleventh at Aintree, Emeryson's best championship placing, before retiring at Monza.
Historical timeline
Three chapters in the story of Emeryson
Three episodes to revisit the people, cars and races that shaped this journey.
First appearance · British Grand Prix
Paul Emery · British Grand Prix 1956. The recorded outcome is DNF. This is the first recorded race start, or the first entry if the team never started a race.
Sporting landmark · British Grand Prix
Tony Settember · British Grand Prix 1962. The recorded position is P11; this number alone does not show whether the driver completed the race distance. This marks the first win or podium where one exists, otherwise the highest recorded placing for this constructor.
Latest recorded appearance · Italian Grand Prix
Tony Settember · Italian Grand Prix 1962. The recorded outcome is DNF. This is the last race start attributed to this constructor in the archive, not necessarily the end of the organisation behind it.
A distinctive way of racing
The small constructor supplied cars to different entrants rather than always fielding one team. Alta, Climax and Maserati belong to different phases and applications. Activity in the junior formulae also continued alongside its Grand Prix attempts: the Emeryson name encompassed more than the few starts in the championship record.
What remains
Hugh Powell acquired the business to support Settember. At the end of 1962 the move towards Scirocco opened another project, with a different championship name. Meanwhile, the Belgians had reworked their Emerysons and called them ENB.
These were two separate developments from the same technical experience, not further results to add to Emeryson's honours.