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-May-20 /historicracing.com
Hans Ruesch died on this day in 2007, 14 years ago, he was 94.
Hans Ruesch won 27 Grand Prix before the war and is probably the last remaining pre-war Grand Prix winner. After racing he became a best selling novelist before turning his attention to the animal rights movment, establishing a foundation in Switzerland to campaign against vivisection.
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Charles Pozzi 1909 - 2001
Charles Pozzi was a racing driver who participated in one Formula One race in the year of its inception. He also competed in endurance races. He was the exclusive Ferrari importer for France for over 30 years and become a household name for anything to do with Ferrari.
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Tom Belso 1942
Started as a mechanic, he raced touring cars before moving to single seaters. Raced in F5000 for a number of years and became Denmark's first World Championship Grand Prix driver.
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Derek Warwick 1954
Warwick is considered to be one of the best F1 drivers never to have won a race. Currently competing in the Grand Prix Masters Series.
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Gerhard Berger 1959
Berger never won the driver's title though he finished third o three occasions. He won ten grands prix, achieved 48 podiums, 12 poles and a very impressive 21 fastest laps. He made 210 F1 starts and is amongst F1's most experienced drivers of all time. He also has the unique distinction of being the winner of Benetton's first and last ever victories, eleven years separating them.
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Mark Webber 1976
Mark Alan Webber is an Australian Formula One driver. He was born in Queanbeyan, New South Wales, son of Alan, the local motorcycle dealer. He is the first Australian to race in Formula One since David Brabham in 1994.
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Charles Rolls 1877 - 1910
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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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1937
George E T Eyston sets world auto speed record at 345.49 MPH. -
2000
Schumacher always said that Hakkinen was his toughest rival and it was on this day back in 2000 that they had one of their best duels.
