John Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute

"Johnny Dumfries" Born (1958-04-26) 26 April 1958 Formula One World Championship career Nationality British Active years 1986 Teams Lotus Races 16 (15 starts) Championships 0 Wins 0 Podiums 0 Career points 3 Pole positions 0 Fastest laps 0 First race 1986 Brazilian Grand Prix Last race 1986 Australian Grand Prix 24 Hours of Le Mans career Participating years 1987 – 1991 Teams Kouros Racing Silk Cut Jaguar/TWR Toyota Team Tom's Courage Compétition Best finish 1st (1988) Class wins 1 (1988)

John Colum Crichton-Stuart, 7th Marquess of Bute (born 26 April 1958 in Rothesay, Isle of Bute), styled Earl of Dumfries before 1993 and from this courtesy title usually known as Johnny Dumfries, is a Scottish peer and a former racing driver. He does not use his title and prefers to be known solely as John Bute. The family home is Mount Stuart House on the Isle of Bute.

Racing career

Born into one of Scotland's oldest aristocratic families (being a descendant of Robert II of Scotland and through him Robert the Bruce) and the descendant of a British Prime Minister, Johnny Dumfries was heir to a large fortune. He turned his back on an expensive education at Ampleforth College and set about entering motor racing.

In 1984 Dumfries was the sensation of the F3 season, scoring 14 race victories on his way to winning, and completely dominating, the British Formula Three Championship for Team BP (Dave Price Racing). He also finished runner up to Ivan Capelli in the European Formula Three Championship that year. In 1985, he graduated to the newly created FIA International Formula 3000 Championship, initially competing for Onyx Race Engineering before switching to Lolo Motorsport. It was a disappointing season, with a sixth place finish in Vallelunga being the highlight of the year.

In 1986 he made his breakthrough into F1, and raced a single season for the JPS Team Lotus. He was a late addition to the team, apparently as a result of Ayrton Senna not wanting Derek Warwick as a team mate. He competed in 16 Grands Prix for Lotus, which used Renault engines and scored 3 championship points. He was replaced for 1987 by the Japanese driver Satoru Nakajima as part of Lotus's deal to use Honda engines from that season onwards.

In 1988, Dumfries scored the biggest racing victory of his career when he won the Le Mans 24 Hours driving for Tom Walkinshaw's Silk Cut Jaguar Team partnered by Andy Wallace and Jan Lammers.

Wealth

He ranked 616th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, with an estimated wealth of £125m. (26th in Scotland with £122m in 2006)

He lives with his family in London and at Mount Stuart House, 5 miles south of Rothesay on the Isle of Bute, PA20 9LR. In 2007 Dumfries House in Cumnock, Ayrshire was purchased for the nation for £45 million.

Ancestry

Crichton-Stuart is the son of the 6th Marquess of Bute and the former Beatrice Weld-Forester. On his father's side, he is a direct male-line descendant of King Robert II of Scotland through an illegitimate line, and a female-line descendant of King William IV of the United Kingdom, by his mistress Dorothy Jordan, through their daughter, Elizabeth Hay, Countess of Erroll. As William IV was Queen Victoria's uncle, the Marquess of Bute is a distant cousin of Queen Elizabeth II. On his mother's side, he is twice descended from King Charles II of England and Scotland through his eldest illegitimate son, James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth. He attended Ampleforth College, as had his father and most male members of the Crichton-Stuart family, but did not finish the normal six years of study.

In 1984, he married Carolyn Waddell and they were divorced in 1993. They have three children:

• The Lady Caroline Crichton-Stuart (b. 26 September 1984)
• The Lady Cathleen Crichton-Stuart (b. 14 September 1986)
• John Bryson Crichton-Stuart, Earl of Dumfries (b. 21 December 1989)

He married Serena Solitaire Wendell in 1999 and they have one child:

• The Lady Lola Affrica Crichton-Stuart b. 1999

Racing record

Complete International Formula 3000 results

(key)

Year	Entrant	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	DC	Points
1985	Onyx Racing	SIL Ret	THR 7	EST Ret	VAL 6	PAU							16th	1
	Lola Motorsport						SPA Ret	DIJ 10	PER	ZEL	ZAN	DON
1988	GEM Motorsport	JER	VAL	PAU	SIL	MNZ	PER	BRH	BIR	BUG	ZOL Ret	DIJ 13	NC	0

Complete Formula One results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	WDC	Pts.
1986	John Player Special Team Lotus	Lotus 98T	Renault V6t	BRA 9	ESP Ret	SMR Ret	MON DNQ	BEL Ret	CAN Ret	DET 7	FRA Ret	GBR 7	GER Ret	HUN 5	AUT Ret	ITA Ret	POR 9	MEX Ret	AUS 6	13th	3

Complete 24 Hours of Le Mans results

Year	Class	No	Tyres	Car	Team	Co-Drivers	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
1987	C1	62	M	Sauber C9 Mercedes-Benz M117 5.0L Turbo V8	Kouros Racing	Chip Ganassi Mike Thackwell	37	DNF	DNF
1988	C1	2	D	Jaguar XJR-9LM Jaguar 7.0L V12	Silk Cut Jaguar Tom Walkinshaw Racing	Jan Lammers Andy Wallace	394	1st	1st
1989	C1	37	B	Toyota 89C-V Toyota R32V 3.2L Turbo V8	Toyota Team Tom's	Geoff Lees John Watson	58	DNF	DNF
1990	C1	37	B	Toyota 90C-V Toyota R32V 3.2L Turbo V8	Toyota Team Tom's	Aguri Suzuki Roberto Ravaglia	64	DNF	DNF
1991	C2	13	G	Cougar C26S Porsche Type-935 3.0L Turbo Flat-6	Courage Compétition	Anders Olofsson Thomas Danielsson	45	DNF	DNF

External links

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess of Bute

Peerage of Great Britain
Preceded by John Crichton-Stuart	Marquess of Bute 1993 -	Succeeded by Current Incumbent
Sporting positions
Preceded by Ayrton Senna	British Formula Three Champion 1984	Succeeded by Maurício Gugelmin
Preceded by Derek Bell Hans-Joachim Stuck Al Holbert	Winner of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1988 with: Jan Lammers Andy Wallace	Succeeded by Jochen Mass Manuel Reuter Stanley Dickens
Awards and achievements
Preceded by Martin Brundle	Autosport National Racing Driver of the Year 1984	Succeeded by Andy Rouse