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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02-May-20 /historicracing.com
Peter Jopp died on this day in 2008, 13 years ago, he was 80. He would have been 93 this year.
Peter Munro Jopp was a highly entertaining character and a very good driver. A leading light in Cliff Davis' legendary 'Filth Nights' in the early 1960s, he was also a great friend of Graham Hill.
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Clemente Biondetti 1898 - 1955
Best on long distance endurance races, Clemente Biondetti won the Mille Miglia in 1938 and then three years running, from 1947 to 1949. He also won the Targa Florio in 1948 and 1949. He died from cancer in 1955
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John Rhodes 1927
John Rhodes made one F1 appearance at the British Grand Prix in 1965 but is best know as the legendary tyre-smoking Mini racer who is still revered to this day for his giant-killing achievements of the mid-1960s.
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Jimmy Davies 1929 - 1966
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Michel May 1934
Michel (or Michael) was a visionary engineer who was responsible for the first inverted aerofoil to create downforce on a racing car. Sadly his talents were not fully realised.
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Doug Didero 1960
Doug Didero was a driver in the Indy Racing League. He also raced 3 times in the NASCAR Busch Series.
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Uwe Alzen 1967
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Charles Baumann 1896 - 1930
American sprint car driver who raced at Indy in 1927 leading at one point before going out with echanical problems. -
Al Miller 1907 - 1967
Miller raced in the 1930s and 1940s. Miller is one of three drivers to have participated in the Indianapolis 500 with a prosthetic leg. The others being Bill Schindler and Cal Niday.
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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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1957
Juan-Manuel Fangio, wins his last auto World Championship at 46
