#HappyBirthday Jackie Oliver, 83. He started 50 #F1 GPs, best 3rd (Mexico ’68, Canada ’73); won the ’69 #LeMans24Hours, ’69 #Sebring12Hours, ’71 #Daytona24Hours, ’71 #Monza1000km & ’74 #CanAm series. Pic: Lola T70 MkIIIB shared with Carlos Reutemann in the ’70 #BuenosAires1000km.
Remembering Jean-Pierre Beltoise, born #OnThisDay in ’37. He began on bikes, raced 86 #F1 GPs, won one (Monaco ’72), & won his class at Le Mans with Henri Pescarolo in an Inaltéra in ’76. Pic: Beltoise (Matra-Simca MS650) leads John Surtees (Ferrari 512S) in the ’70 #Monza1000km.
Remembering Silvio Moser, born #OnThisDay in ’41. Quick in #F3 & #F2, he started 12 #F1 GPs in privateer Coopers & Brabhams & his own Bellasi (pic). Pretty it was; fast it wasn’t. He entered it in 6 F1 GPs & he DNQ’d for 4, DNF-ing the other 2. He died in the ’74 #Monza1000km.
Umberto Maglioli also won the last #CarreraPanamericana, the #Pescara12Hours, the #Sebring12Hours, the #BuenosAires1000km & the #Monza1000km. He started 10 championship #F1 GPs, finishing 3rd twice. Pic: the Ferrari he shared with Mike Hawthorn at Pescara in ’53; they won. (2/3)
Jean-Pierre Beltoise died #OnThisDay 10 years ago, at 77. He began on bikes, drove 86 #F1 GPs, won the ’72 #MonacoGP for BRM, & won his class at Le Mans with Henri Pescarolo in an Inaltéra in ’76. Pic: Beltoise (Matra-Simca MS650) & John Surtees (Ferrari 512S), #Monza1000km, ’70.
