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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Manfred Winkelhock died on this day in 1985, 36 years ago, he was 34. He would have been 70 this year.
Manfred Winkelhock was fast but wild. He drove for ATS and RAM-Hart team in F1, but is best know as a very successful sports car driver. He was killed in the summer of 1985 when he crashed during the Budweiser 1000km World Sportscar Championship race at Mosport Park.
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Bill Boyd 1915 - 1984
Bill Boyd started racing in 1934 during the Great Depression and raced extensively all over the USA until 1961.
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Shorty Templeman 1919 - 1962
Clark "Shorty" Templeman was an American racing driver who died in Marion, Ohio as a result of injuries sustained in a midget car crash at the Marion County Fairgrounds track.
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Parnelli Jones 1933
Rufus "Parnelli" Jones is an American racing driver who won the 1963 Indianapolis 500. In his career, Parnelli Jones won races in sports cars, Indycars, sprint cars, midget cars, off-road vehicles, and stock cars. He has two sons who are also professional drivers: P.J. Jones and Page Jones.
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Dick Bown 1928 -
Mauro Nesti 1935 -
Geoff Friswell 1945 -
Charlie Whiting 1952 - 2019 -
Constantino de Oliveira Júnior 1968
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Louis Devore 1910 - 1985
Billy was saved from drowning by his father when the ship they were on sank en route to Argentina. He later went on to race the 6 wheel Pat Clancy Special at Indy in 1948. -
Giordano Aldrighetti 1905 - 1939 -
Ulrich Bigalke 1910 - 1940 -
Larry Smith 1942 - 1973 -
Keith Hutton 1951 - 2003
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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
