Sports Car Driver
Stacey teamed with P.H. Ashdown in a Lotus 1.098 c.c. in the 1957 24 hours of Le Mans. They finished 9th with an average speed of 159.458 kilometers per hour. The top four places were taken by British Jaguar Racing teams. Stacey drove a Lotus-Climax to victory at Aintree, in a July 1959 race for sports cars of 1,400 cubic centimeters to two liters. His time was 37 minutes 39.4 seconds.
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