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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15-Jan-18 /hr
René Le Bègue died on this day in 1946, 74 years ago, he was 32.
Le Bègue was a French racing driver who competed in Rallies and circuit races. A works Talbot driver, he won a number of races including the Monte Carlo Rally and the Coupe de Vitesse at Monthléry in 1937 and the 1938 Grand Prix du Comminges. He raced at Indy before the war but was killed in 1946 in a domestic accident.
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George Robson 1909 - 1946
George Robson was born in Newcastle-upon-Tyne but moved to America in 1924. He started racing in 1930 and in the first running of the Indy 500 after WWII, he took the win. He was killed later that year in a crash at Lakewood Speedway in Atlanta.
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Alain Prost 1955
One of the most successful Formula One World Champions with 4 World Titles, only Michael Schumacher and Juan Manuel Fangio have more. Prost was the F1 World Champion in 1985, 1986, 1989, and 1993, and runner-up in 1983, 1984, 1988 and 1990. He competed in 199 Grand Prix, 51 of which he won, and accumulated through his career 798.5 championship points.
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Emanuele Naspetti 1968
Emanuele Naspetti is a former Formula One driver from Italy. He participated in 6 grands prix, debuting on August 30, 1992.
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Pedro de la Rosa 1971
Spanish Formula One driver, De la Rosa has participated in 64 grand prix, debuting on March 7, 1999.
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Lance Reventlow 1936 - 1972 -
Adrian Russell 1937 -
Colin Bond 1942 -
Klaus Niedzwiedz 1951 -
Steve Parrish 1955 -
Russell Ingall 1964 -
Marco Campos 1976 - 1995
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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 -
Carlos Walter Loeffel 1926 - 2000
Started racing in 1940 but the war intervened. He took up racing again but lost a leg in 1961 in a racing accident. He returned to compete in the Turismo Carretera series finally retiring in 1972. -
Renée Friderich 1911 - 1932 -
Jocko Maggiacomo 1914 - 1997 -
Martin Morris 1931 - 2006
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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
