This Week in Racing History (May 2-8)
This Week in Racing History Michael Stucker May 2 John Foulston and Les Cocks drive a Lola T530 to victory in the Thundersports race at Snetterton, England (1982). May 3 Nigel Mansell drives a Williams-Honda FW11B to victory in the San ...
This Week in Racing History
Michael Stucker
May 2
John Foulston and Les Cocks drive a Lola T530 to victory in the
Thundersports race at Snetterton, England (1982).
May 3
Nigel Mansell drives a Williams-Honda FW11B to victory in the San Marino
Grand Prix at Imola, Italy (1987).
May 4
Umberto Masetti, two-time 500cc Motorcycle Grand Prix World Champion, born
in Parma , Italy (1926).
May 5
First La Carrera Panamerica road race begins. Five days later, the event
in won by Herschel McGriff in an Oldsmobile (1950).
May 6
Ferrari scores their first European Manufacturers' Championship victory
when the 250 GTO of Pietro Ferraro and Georgio Scarlatti finish first in
class (fourth overall) in the Targa Florio in Sicily (1962).
May 7
Junior Johnson scores his first NASCAR stockcar victory when he wins the
race at Hickory, North Carolina, USA (1955).
May 8
The Maseratti Tipo 60 "Birdcage" prototype leaves the factory for testing
(1959).
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