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Robert Schroeder
11/5/1926 - 3/12/2011
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Rob Schroeder made one World Championship Grand Prix appearance in the 1962 US Grand Prix before returning to relative obscurity.
Robert Schroeder died 9 years ago, he was 85 , He would have been 94.
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Very little is know about Rob Schroeder. He drove a Lotus 24 entered by Texan oil millionaire John Mecom in the 1962 US Grand Prix at Watkins Glen. He qualified in sixteenth place and crossed the line seven laps behind Jim Clark's winning Lotus 25 in tenth.He died after suffering from a short period of ill-health and heart problems in a Dallas hospital in 2011
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Fred Wacker 1918 - 1998
Wacker was the first American to finish on the podium in a post-war Grand Prix he was also President of the SCCA in 1951. -
Chuck Daigh 1923 - 2008
6Chuck Daigh was a racing driver from the United States. He participated in 6 Grand Prix driving a Scarab and a Cooper, debuting on May 29, 1960. -
Jay Chamberlain 1925 - 2001
Jay Chamberlain was a sports car racer who competed almost exclusively in Lotus cars, for whom he was an early US distributor. He won his class at Le Mans in 1957. Tried a season of F1 in 1962 under the Ecurie Excelsior banner, driving a Lotus 18. -
Herbert Mackay-Fraser 1927 - 1957
Fraser was a promising American driver who came to Europe to ply his trade but was killed in the Coupe Internationale de Vitesse F2 race at Reims in 1957. -
Harry Schell 1921 - 1960
A playboy racer who made his Grand Prix debut at Monaco in 1950 in a Cooper, the first rear-engined car to contest a Formula 1 race. He was killed in during practice for the Silverstone International Trophy.