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.
Junior Johnson wins the second Daytona 500 by being the first stockcar driver to exploit "drafting".
1965
Tasman Cup, Warwick Farm Sydney won by Jim Clark in a Lotus-Climax. This was a record setting 4th straight Tasman Cup series win on the Warwick Farm circuit.