Ian Raby was born in September 1922. He was a garage owner from Brighton and began racing in the 1953 with a Cooper achieving some respectable results including a third place in the Junior race and second in the JAP race at Brands Hatch in October. For 1954, Ian built his own car, the IER however this was for sale before the end of the year. For '55 he returned to a Cooper winning the Petit Prix at Crystal Palace in May and the Junior race in July and finishing the year with a third in the first heat of the Yuletide Trophy. In 1956, he won the Consolation race at Brands Hatch in April and two wins Silverstone in June and October. In April '57, he finished second in the Sporting Record Trophy at Brands Hatch but thereafter moved to sports car racing with Cooper and Elva machinery and shared a Cooper with Jack Brabham in the 1957 Le Mans.

Ian returned to single-seaters in occasional Formula Libre outings in 1959 and then joined the Formula Junior circus before buying the Gilby-BRM competing in Formula 1 in 1963. He scored few good results and in 1964 ran a Brabham BRM instead. When F1 changed to 3-litre regulations in 1966, Raby turned to Formula 2 racing, again with a Brabham chassis. The 1966 season ended with a big crash at Brands but in 1967 he undertook a full F2 season with a Lotus engined Brabham. In July 1967 he crashed badly in Holland and died from his injuries at the start of November.

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