Harry Stiller

{{Short description|British racing driver}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}}

{{Infobox racing driver

| name = Harry Stiller

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| nationality = English

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1938|05|28|df=y}}

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| death_date = {{Death date and age|2018|05|13|1938|05|28|df=y}}

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| prev series = Formula Two

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| titles = British Formula Three

| title years = 1966 and 1967

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{{Former F1 team |

Short_name = |

Long_name = Custom Made Harry Stiller Racing |

Logo = |

Base = United Kingdom |

Founders = Harry Stiller |

Staff = Harry Stiller |

Drivers = {{Flagicon|AUS}} Alan Jones |

Constructors = Hesketh |

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Debut = 1975 Spanish Grand Prix |

Races = 4 |

Drivers_champ = 0 |

Wins = 0 |

Poles = 0 |

Fastest_laps = 0 |

Last race = 1975 Swedish Grand Prix |

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Harry Stiller (28 May 1938{{cite web|title =Harry Stiller|url =http://www.historicracing.com/driver_detail.cfm?driverID=5185|publisher =historicracing.com|accessdate =10 December 2014|url-status =live|archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20141227103825/http://www.historicracing.com/driver_detail.cfm?driverID=5185|archivedate =27 December 2014}} – 13 May 2018{{cite news|url=http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/16265473.Obituary__Tucktonia_creator_and_Formula_Three_racing_driver_Harry_Stiller_dies/|title=Obituary: Tucktonia creator and Formula Three racing driver Harry Stiller dies|work=Bournemouth Daily Echo|publisher = Newsquest|date=2 June 2018|access-date=7 October 2019}}) was a British racing driver and British Formula Three Champion.{{cite web|last =Thomas|first =Geoff|title =The GT interview|publisher =BRDC|url =http://www.statim.co.uk/GT-Interview/HS.html|accessdate =10 December 2014|url-status =live|archiveurl =https://web.archive.org/web/20140909185514/http://www.statim.co.uk/GT-Interview/HS.html|archivedate =9 September 2014}} His racing career covered the years between 1958 and 1969 and he drove a variety of different classes of cars. After stopping driving himself he became an entrant in 1970 and he had cars in Formula Three, Formula Atlantic, F5000 and in 1975, Formula One. After racing he became creator, developer and operator of Tucktonia, a south-coast leisure park in the 1970s and 1980s. He was also a director of the Rob Walker Motor Group in the UK during the 1970s and the owner of Harry Stiller Motor Cars on Wilshire Boulevard, in Beverly Hills, California, also in the 1970s, with agencies for Fiat, Lancia and Lotus and for leasing Rolls-Royce and Bentley motor cars in Los Angeles.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}} During the early 1980s, he was a pioneer of the pound shop concept in the North East of England and opened units in Scarborough, Newcastle upon Tyne, Stockton and moved into the South as well with another five units along the South Coast and one in Hatfield.{{citation needed|date=December 2014}}

He was notable as the person responsible for starting Alan Jones in Formula One in {{f1|1975}} with a privately owned Hesketh 308.{{cite book|last1 =Jones|first1 =Alan|last2 =Botsford|first2 =Keith|title=Alan Jones: Driving Ambition|year =1981|publisher =Stanley Paul & Co.|page =45|isbn =0091462401}} This was not the first time Jones had driven for Stiller as he had done so in the works March Formula Atlantic car in the 1974 UK John Player championship.

Stiller was a life member of the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC), and lived in Christchurch, Dorset, England with his wife Annie.{{Cite web|url=http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/7555884/MR-HARRY-STILLER|title=Harry Stiller - Christchurch|website=CheckCompany|access-date=18 June 2016|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160630153720/http://www.checkcompany.co.uk/director/7555884/MR-HARRY-STILLER|archivedate=30 June 2016}}