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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Carlos Menditeguy born on this day in 1915 - died in 1973, 48 years ago, he was 58.
Carlos Menditeguy, born in Buenos Aires, was a Formula One driver and one of the top six Polo players in the world.
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Guy Mairesse 1910 - 1954
Mairesse was a lorry driver before the war who went on to built up a long-distance haulage business. Finished second at Le Mans in 1950 in a Talbot and competed in a couple of Grand Prix in 1951. He was killed at the Coupes de Paris meeting in 1954.
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Gerino Gerini 1928
Italian driver who raced Ferrari sports cars in the mid-fifties, before switching to rivals Maserati.
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Eric Hélary 1966
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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
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1897
The RAC is founded. -
1907
Prince Scipione Borghese won the Peking to Paris race in an Italia.
