This Week in Racing History (December 5-11)
This Week in Racing History Michael Stucker www.vintageRPM.com December 5 The paved track at Marouba, New South Wales, Australia, opens (1925). December 6 Touring and sports car racer Manuel Reuter is born Mainz, Germany (1961). December 7 The ...
This Week in Racing History
Michael Stucker
www.vintageRPM.com
December 5
The paved track at Marouba, New South Wales, Australia, opens (1925).
December 6
Touring and sports car racer Manuel Reuter is born Mainz, Germany (1961).
December 7
The USAC Rex Mays 300 at Riverside International Raceway in Riverside,
California, USA, is won by Mario Andretti driving a Ford-Powered
Brawner-Hawk. First USAC event to allow female reporters into the pits
(1969).
December 8
Driving Frank Arciero's 4.9L Ferrari, Dan Gurney wins the sports car
race at Paramount Ranch, California, USA (1957).
December 9
Innes Ireland drives a Rosebud Racing Team Lotus 19 to victory in the
Nassau Trophy Race in the Bahamas (1962).
December 10
Jean-Luc Lagardere announces to the Matra racing personnel that they
will no longer race sports cars (1974).
December 11
Ferdinand Alexander "Butzi" Porsche, son of the founder of the Porsche
automobile company and designer of the Porsche 904 and 911, is born (1935).
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