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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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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Emile Levassor 1843 - 1897
Levassor won the first proper motor race in history and also laid out what became the normal layout for all the automobile designers who followed him.
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Jud Larson 1923 - 1966
Jud Larson was a hard-drinking, hard-driving sprint car driver who raced at a time when few drivers survived to retire.
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Yuji Ide 1975
Yuji Ide is a Japanese racing driver who graduated from 2005 Formula Nippon to Formula One with the Super Aguri F1 team in 2006 but lost his FIA Super Licence during the season due to erratic driving. He then returned to the Formula Nippon series.
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Jocko Maggiacomo 1914 - 1997 -
John Campbell-Jones 1930 -
Winfried Vogt 1945 - 1989 -
Robert Synge 1957 -
Louise Aitken-Walker 1960
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Notice anything odd here?
In the sixties South Africa enjoyed a thriving Formula One circus of it’s own.
11-Aug-20/ historicracing.com -
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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1911
The start of the first Monte Carlo Rally took place. -
1956
Tasman Cup, Lady Wigram Trophy, Wigram, New Zealand. Won by Peter Whitehead in a Ferrari. -
1961
Tasman Cup, Lady Wigram Trophy, Wigram, New Zealand. Won by Jack Brabham. -
1967
Round 3 Tasman Cup, Lady Wigram Trophy, Wigram, New Zealand. Won by Jim Clark in a Lotus-Climax. -
1979
Argentinian Grand Prix. Won by Jacques Laffite in a Ligier Ford. -
1979
Elio De Angelis first Formula One race.
