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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Jimmy Daywalt 1924 - 1966
Born in Wabash, Indiana, Daywalt drove in the AAA and USAC Championship Car series, racing in the 1950, 1953-1957, 1959, and 1961-1962 seasons with 20 starts, including the Indianapolis 500 races in each year except 1950.
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Guido Barbieri 1908 - 1984 -
Wendell Scott 1928 - 1990 -
Randy LaJoie 1961 -
Jason Priestley 1969
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Phil Cade 1916 - 2001
Phil Cade was an amateur enthusiast who raced a Chrysler-engined 1935 Maserati V8Ri in SCCA events and the 1959 US Grand Prix. -
Phil Hill 1927 - 2008
The only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers' Championship (Mario Andretti, an Italian American driver, won the World Drivers' Championship in 1978, but was not born in the United States). He also scored three wins at each of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races.
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Frank Gardner 1930 - 2009
Frank Gardner was one of the world's toughest, most determined and professional racing drivers. From Australia, he is best known as a Touring car racing and Sports car racing driver. He raced in nine Formula One grand prix. He won the 1971 and 1972 Formula 5000 championships and 1976 and 1977 Australian Sports Sedan championships. -
Mike Parkes 1931 - 1977
Probably more gifted as an engineer than a driver, Michael Johnson Parkes was often asked to quit his racing in favour of an engineering job, a role in which he excelled at Ferrari after his Grand Prix career-ending crash at the 1967 Belgian GP. -
Robert Arbuthnot 1914 - 1946 -
Curt Lincoln 1918 - 2005
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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
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1999
1999 saw the arrival of BAR on the F1 scene. Having made predictions about winning their first race as per Wolf the reality was somewhat different. The biggest impact (no pun intended) they made all season occured on this day (28 August) in qualifying for the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa. -
2005
After Alessandro Zanardi's accident in 2001 which cost him both his legs no-one, apart from maybe the man himself, thought he would ever race again. On this day he was not only racing again but he took his first win since the crash, taking the chequered flag in the second race of the FIA World Touring Car Championship at the Motorsport Arena Oschersleben in Germany, not far from the Lausitzring where his accident had happened.
