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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Niki Lauda born on this day in 1949 - died in 2019, 2 years ago, he was 70. He would have been 72 this year.
Entrepreneur, former Formula 1 racing driver and three-time F1 World Champion was undoubtedly one of the greatest F1 drivers of all time.
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Ernst Henne 1904 - 2005
Henne started racing motor cycles and set a total of 76 speed records for BMW. He switched to cars and raced for BMW and for Mercedes as a reserve driver to Caracciola and a young von Brauchitsch in 1934.
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Jacques Ickx 1910 - 1978
Belgian motoring journalist and historian.Father of Jacky Ickx.
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Tim Mayer 1938 - 1964
Tim Mayer was a brilliant young driver from the United States. He only drove in in one World Championship grand prix, on October 7, 1962. Mayer's older brother Teddy was one of the founders of the McLaren team and together they went to Europe in the early 1960s with future grand prix winner Peter Revson. Mayer was killed in practice for a race in Tasmania.
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Jorge de Bagration 1944 - 2008
Prince Jorge de Bagration was a Spanish racing car driver of Georgian descent and a claimant to the headship of the Royal House of Georgia.
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Willy Tischbein 1871 - 1946 -
Sir Francis Samuelson 1890 - 1981 -
George Constantine 1916 - 1968 -
Marshall Teague 1922 - 1959 -
Jesus Iglesias 1922 -
Roy Baker 1936 - 2002 -
Bob Dorricott Sr. 1937 - 2002
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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
Bert Dingley drove a Pope-Hartford to victory in a 163.84 mile road race on the streets of Oakland, California. -
1926
Pete DePaolo won the inaugural race on the 1.25 mile board Miami-Fulford Speedway. -
1959
the inaugural Daytona 500 won by Lee Petty's in a photo finish with Johnny Beauchamp. -
1959
Alec Mildren won the 50 mile Victorian Trophy race at Fishermen's Bend in a Cooper-Climax.
