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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Roscoe Sarles 1892 - 1922
Roscoe Sarles as born in New Albany, Indiana. He was a racing driver active in the formative years of motor racing in the United States. he waas killed in a 300-mile race in Kansas City when a steering knuckle broke on his Durant.
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Hermann zu Leiningen 1901 - 1971
Prinz Hermann zu Leiningen started racing in 1927. He effectively had retired at the end of 1931 but was called up by Auto Union in 1934 to be part of the works team.
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Dee Toran 1910 - 1989
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Luigi de Filippis 1922
Luigi de Filippis is the brother of Maria Teresa de Filippis. He started racing sports cars in hillclimbs and reliabilty tests in the 1940s. In 1950 he raced a Maserati 4CLT/48. He was entered in the Italian Grand Prix but failed to appear.
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Mennato Boffa 1930
Boffa won numerous races in Italy and abroad, mainly at the wheel of Maserati Sport cars. In 1961 he entered four non-championship Formula One races with a Cooper T45.
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Peter Sachs 1939 -
Jim Downing 1942 -
Graham Moore 1944 -
Gary Neice 1955 - 1991 -
John Batchelor 1959 -
Trent Owens 1975 -
Graham Rahal 1989
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Louise Bryden-Brown 1916 - 1972
Louise Bryden-Brown came from a wealth family who owned what was then the largest pharmaceutical company in the world. She became interested in racing and ended up running her own Formula 1 team in 1961 and 1962. Sadly drink and drugs were became a problem and she lost interested in racing, partly due to the expence, and faded from the Formula 1 scene.
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Walter Glöckler 1908 - 1988 -
Donald Campbell 1921 - 1967
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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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1964
Round 1 Tasman Cup, Levin Circuit, New Zealand. Won by Denis Hulme -
1966
The works Mini Team were Disqualified from 1st,2nd and 3rd places in the Monte Carlo Rally. -
1969
Round 1 Tasman Cup, Pukekohe. Won by Chris Amon in a Ferrari 246T
