Today in Motor Sport
Motor Sport: Auto Racers - Drag Racing - Formula One - Motocross - Motor Races - Motorcycle Racing - NASCAR
Events in Sport
- 1984-10-21 Austrian Ferrari driver Niki Lauda becomes a 3-time Formula 1 World Drivers champion when he finishes 2nd in the season ending Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril; wins title by just 0.5 from Alain Prost
- 2005-04-02 James Stewart Jr. becomes first African American to win a major motor sports event.
Event of Interest
2013-12-29 7-time world F1 motor racing champion Michael Schumacher suffers a serious head injury in a ski accident in the French Alps; his condition still remains unclear
Michael Schumacher
Birthdays in Sport
- 1873-09-20 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (winner of the 1st Grand Prix motor racing), born in Szeghalom, Hungary (d. 1944)
- 1903-06-24 Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver
- 1921-04-09 Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA, born in Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, France (d. 2008)
- 1928-08-30 Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (Casner Motor Racing Division team), born in Miami, Florida (d. 1965)
- 1941-08-20 Jo Ramirez, Mexican motor racing team manager and author
- 1947-09-18 Giancarlo Minardi, Italian founder and Managing Director of Minardi Formula One team, born in Faenza, Italy
- 1951-09-18 Marc Surer, Swiss motor racing driver
- 1952-04-11 Peter Windsor, English motor racing journalist and reporter, born in Reigate, Surrey, England
- 1952-06-03 David Richards, CBE, British motor racing entrepreneur
Deaths in Sport
- 1927-03-03 J.G. Parry-Thomas, Welsh motor-racing driver (b. 1884)
- 1944-02-21 Ferenc Szisz, Hungarian race car driver (winner of the 1st Grand Prix motor racing), dies at 70
- 1965-04-10 Lloyd Casner, American race car driver and owner (Casner Motor Racing Division team), dies at 36
- 1996-08-15 Ernest Leslie Bouts, motor-racing driver, dies at 93
- 2008-03-27 Jean-Marie Balestre, French president of motor sport's FIA, dies at 86