29th of December – Today is the 20th anniversary of Mike Beuttler’s passing and he is also remembered for showing up with the a privately run and a rather surprisingly self-assembled March 721G as of the 1972 Monaco Grand Prix. Do you know what the story behind the 721G model is and what the “G” stood for?
29/12/1988, Michael Beuttler dies.
Mike Beuttler graduated to Formula 1 in 1971 thanks to the sponsoring of a group of wealthy stockbroker friends. Up until 1973 he’d been a constant mid- to back-field in his yellow March, but called it quits at the end of 1973 after Roger Williamson’s horrific accident in Zandvoort. He eventually moved to San Francisco where he died of AIDS in 1988.
Born: 13th of April 1940 in Cairo, Egypt.
Died: 29th of December 1988 in San Francisco, USA, aged 47 years.
29/12/1925, Jay Chamberlain is born in Los Angeles, USA.
Jay Chamberlain was a sports car racer who competed almost exclusively in Lotus cars, for whom he was an early US distributor. He won his class at Le Mans in 1957. Tried a season of F1 in 1962 under the Ecurie Excelsior banner, driving a Lotus 18.
Born: 29th of December 1925 in Los Angeles, USA;
Died: 1st of August 2001 in Tucson, USA, aged 75.
29/12/1924, Carlo Chiti is born in Pistoia, Italy.
Chiti, a graduated aeronautical engineer, was first involved in Formula 1 with the design of the famous Ferrari 156 Sharknose that crowned Phil Hill the 1961 World Champion. But the longest association was with Alfa Romeo, creating V8 and flat 12 engines for their Autodelta works-team. He also designed the V12 engine the Brabham team used in the 1978 F1 World Championship and was the driving force behind Autodelta’s Alfa-backed F1 effort thereafter. But, failing to achieve success, the Alfa Romeo shut down the F1 operation in 1984 and Chiti moved on, founding Motori Moderni which concentrated on producing V6 turbo F1-engines. Initially the company produced a V6 turbo design, after supercharging was banned the Italian came up with a new 3.5 litre atmospheric flat-12 engine, selling the project to Subaru.
Born: 29th of December 1924 in Pistoia, Italy;
Died: 7th of July 1994 in Milan, Italy.
29/12/1917, David Hampshire is born in Mickleover, UK.
Hampshire drove a Scuderia Ambrosiana semi-works Maserati 4CLT/48s at a couple of Grands Prix and non-championship races. One of the latter was the Nottingham Trophy F1 race in August, which he won. When results went scarce in 1951, he seemed to lose interest. He’d reappear in 1955 scoring a class win sharing a Lister-Bristol with Scott-Russell in the BARC 9-hour race at Goodwood.
Born: 29th of december 1917 in Mickleover, UK;
Died: 25th of August 1990 in Newton Solney, UK, aged 72.
29/12/1969, Allan McNish is born in Dumfries, Scotland.
The Scotsman got his F1 chance, after helping to develop the Toyota, in 2002 alongside teammate Mika Salo, but was dropped after just one season and 17 GPs. He managed to hold on by signing a test deal with Renault for 2003, but without persepctives, returned to sports car racing in 2004 and has been with the works Audi outift since, competing in the ALMS-Series.
29/12/1982, Max de Terra dies.
Max de Terra raced in minor events and hill-climbs in the late forties and early fifties. He also took part in two Swiss Grands Prix at Berne’s Bremgarten circuit in 1952 and 1953, yet without notable success.
Born: 6th of October 1918 in Zurich, Switzerland;
Died. 29th of December 1982 in Zollikon, Switzerland, aged 64.
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This one I know without having to search fot it!!! 😀
The previous model, the 721X, was horrendous and was abandoned. Then, they took a 722 F2 chassis, fitted a Cosworth DFV engine, a bigger fuel tank and came up with the 721G. The “G” stood for ‘Guinness Book Of Records’ since the car was built in only nine days.
Cool, Carlos. That’s the one. Well done!