KEEPING THE SPIRIT ALIVE SINCE 1999
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06-Oct-20 /historicracing.com
A lawyer from Locarno, Count Ottorino Volonterio of Orselina was an enthusiastic Swiss amateur who rarely troubled the score sheets. With a pace that varied between slow and very slow his career was spent at a leisurely pace.
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Jean Behra died on this day in 1959, 62 years ago, he was 38. He would have been 100 this year.
Formula One driver who raced for the Gordini, Maserati, BRM, Ferrari and Porsche teams. An ex-motorcyle champion Behra never found a Formula 1 Grand Prix win, but his fists did manage to find Maurice Trintigant, Georges Monneret and Ferrari team manager Romolo Tavoni!
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Raymond Mays 1899 - 1980
One of the most famous British drivers in the 30s, Mays is best perhaps best remembered for his involvement in promoting and developing the ERA and BRM projects.
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Lindley Fowler Bothwell 1902 - 1986
Pioneer surfer, automobile collector and racer and cheerleading legend who invented the animated card stunt at matches when spectators in the grandstands hold coloured cards above their heads to create an image of slogan.
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John Fitzroy 1914 - 1936
John Charles William Fitzroy, 9th Duke of Grafton was killed on his 22nd birthday, while competing at the 1936 Limerick Grand Prix.
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Allen Berg 1961
Canadian racer who won the Formula Pacific Tasman Championship before trying F3 in the UK. Found a budget to race in F1 with the awkward Osella in 1986. Tried other formula eventually finding success in Mexico winning the Formula 2 title in 1993, the Formula 3 in 1997 and the Panamerican Indy Lights title in 2001.
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Merle Brennan 1927 - 1995 -
Bobby Isaac 1932 - 1977
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Ivor Bueb 1923 - 1959
Ivor Bueb was a British racing driver who won Le Mans in 1955 and 1957. He died in a crash at Clermont Ferrand in 1959. -
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. -
Gerhard Mitter 1935 - 1969
Mitter was Porsche works driver from 1965. He won of the European hillclimb championship three times in 1966, '67 and '68. Killed practicing for the 1969 German Grand Prix. -
Jim Hickman 1943 - 1982
Jim Hickman was the top rookie in the 1982 Indianapolis 500 but was tragically killed during practice for the Tony Bettenhausen 200 at Wisconsin State Fair Park later in the year. -
Patrick Depailler 1944 - 1980
Patrick Depailler was a Formula One driver from France who participated in 95 Grands Prix. As a child, he was inspired by Jean Behra. Talented and charismatic, Depailler never quite drove the kind of machinery his talent deserved. -
Ãngel Lo Valvo 1909 - 1978 -
Len Duncan 1911 - 1998 -
Tommy Hinnershitz 1912 - 1999 -
Willi Heeks 1922 - 1996
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Notice anything odd here?
In the sixties South Africa enjoyed a thriving Formula One circus of it’s own.
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Flying Officer Dorothy Mabel Murray Stanley Turner who finished second in the Rudge Cup at Le Mans in her first season.
Petite and determined with a cheeky sense of humour, Dorothy Stanley Turner was born on November 12th 1916, into a military family.
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Animals in motor sport. Number 4 - Oscar
James Hunt's dog Oscar at Turnberry Golf Club in Scotland.
08-Jul-20/ historicracing.com
