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1905

Mark

Billman

USA

	Born 105 years ago
	Died 77 years ago. ( 30 / 5 /1933) , aged 28

Mark Billman won many races in Indiana and Ohio in the late 1920s and early 1930s. He died in a terrible crash in the 1933 Indy 500.

1909

Jimmy

Snyder

USA

	Born 101 years ago
	Died 71 years ago. ( 29 / 6 /1939) , aged 30

Famous American racing driver, finished second in the Indy 500 in 1939 but was killed a month later in a minor midget race in Illinois.

1913

Rex

Mays

USA

	Born 97 years ago
	Died 61 years ago. ( 6 / 11 /1949) , aged 36

Rex Mays was the Midwestern sprint car champion in 1936 and 1937 and won the AAA National Championships in 1940 and 1941. Had Mays ventured to Europe he might well have been a Grand Prix star.

1925

Giovanni

de Riu

Born 85 years ago

Italian driver who attempted to qualify for the Italian Grand Prix in 1954 in a privateer Maserati A6GCM/250F.

1939

Charles

Crichton-Stuart

	Born 71 years ago
	Died 9 years ago. ( 2 / 7 /2001) , aged 62

Charles was part of the motor racing set in London in the early 1960s that included Piers Courage, Innes Ireland and Frank Williams. He won the Temporada F3 Championship in 1966 and was later was responsible for sponsorship at Williams. He retired for motor sport and went searching for sunken treasure in the Pacific. He suffered a fatal heart attack while in the Philippines.

1946

Gianni

Giudici

Born 64 years ago

1946

Hiroshi

Fushida

Born 64 years ago

Hiroshi made two attempts to qualify the Maki F101-2 for Grand Prix in 1975, failing in both Holland and Britain. Spend eleven years as TOMs British F3 team boss, drove at Le Mans three times and acted as operations director for Bentley's return to the French track.

1951

Tony

Carello

Born 59 years ago

1955

Toshio

Suzuki

Born 55 years ago

1959

Mike

Wallace

USA

Born 51 years ago

1967

Chris

Goodwin

Born 43 years ago

1967

Guy Anthony

Vandervell

	Born 8 / 9 / 1898
	Died 43 years ago. ( 10 / 3 / 1967) , aged 69

2003

Barry

Sheene

	Born 11 / 9 / 1950
	Died 7 years ago. ( 10 / 3 / 2003) , aged 53

Ottorino

Volonterio

	Born 7 / 12 / 1917
	Died 7 years ago. ( 10 / 3 / 2003) , aged 86

An enthusiastic but rather slow Swiss amateur racer who rarely troubled the score sheets.

2005

Ronny

Hissom

USA

	Born 8 / 11 / 1936
	Died 5 years ago. ( 10 / 3 / 2005) , aged 69

Ronny was an avid sports car enthusiast and a nationally ranked polo player who long with Jim Hall and Hap Sharp was one of the original partners and drivers in Chaparral Racing.