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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17-Aug-20 /hr
Oscar Galvez born on this day in 1913 - died in 1989, 32 years ago, he was 76.
A great hidden talent, Galvez was the early rival and inspiration to Fangio back in their native Argentina both before and after the war.
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Dario Resta 1884 - 1924
Dario Resta won the Indy 500, the Vanderbilt Cup twice and the 1916 United States National Driving Championship. Raised in England he was killed in a crash at Brooklands when a tire blew while trying for a new land speed record.
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Dave Koetzla 1894 - 1968
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László Hartmann 1901 - 1938
Hartmann was one of the most famous private drivers in the 1930s mostly driving Maserati. He was killed in the 1938 Tripoli GP when he colided with Farina's Tipo 312 Alfa Romeo.
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Nelson Piquet 1952
Nelson Piquet is a Brazilian racing driver who was Formula One world champion in 1981, 1983 and 1987.
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Luigi Chinetti 1901 - 1994
Founder of the North American Racing Team, Chinetti won the Le Mans 24 Hour race in 1932, 1934 and 1949. He also won the Spa 24 Hour race twice and the Carrera Panamericana. He raced at every Le Mans from 1932 to 1953. -
Ken Miles 1918 - 1966
Ken began racing in MG Specials. He went on to great success driving Porsche Spyders for Otto Zipper. Then he raced Cobras for Carroll Shelby and went on to join the Ford factory team that developed the GT40. He was killed at Riverside Raceway in 1966 while testing one of the Ford J-car prototypes. -
Fred Offenhauser 1888 - 1973
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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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1918
Ralph DePalma wins three Champ Car races on the same day, on a board track in Sheepshead Bay, NY. He is the only driver to earn three Champ Car victories on the same day.
