30th of August 30 August 2008
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10/1/1941, Ignazio Giunti dies.
Italian driver who made his name in saloon and Sports Car Racing in the late 1960s. In 1968, driving for Alfa Romeo, he was 2nd in the Targa Florio and 4th in the Le Mans 24 Hours race co-driving with Nanni Galli.
In 1970 Giunti was signed by Ferrari primarily for their sports-car team and won the Sebring 12hrs and the Targa Florio as well as achieving several other high placings. His success earned him a F1 chance and he did splendidly to finish 4th on his debut in the Belgian GP at Spa and raced three more times that year. Ferrari were also trialling the Swiss driver Clay Regazzoni and he put in some excellent drives to restrict Giunti’s chances though he was re-signed by Ferrari for 1971.
Tragedy struck in his first drive in 1971 when his Ferrari 312 PB prototype ploughed into the back of a Matra 650 stopped on the track in the Buenos Aires 1000km race giving the popular Italian no chance of survival.
Born: 30th of August 1941 in Rome, Italy.
Died: 10th of January 1971 in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
24th of August 24 August 2008
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24/12/1921, Samuel A. Tingle is born in Manchester,
Sam Tingle was one of only two drivers to enter a Formula One race from the former republic of Rhodesia, now Zimbabwe, the other being John Love. He participated in 5 grand prix’s, debuting on December 28, 1963. He drove an LDS-Alfa Romeo in the 1963, 65 and 67 South African Grands Prix before switching to a Repco-engined LDS for 1968 and a pukka Formula 1 Brabham-Repco BT24 for the 1969 race when he produced a career best 8th place finish.
1 August 2008
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16/11/1924, 83 years ago, Joseph Edouard Robert Christian Behra is born in Nice, France.
Born: 11th of September 1924 in Nice (Alpes-Maritimes), France.
Died: 1st of August 1997 in Mougins (Alpes-Maritimes) France, aged 73.
