This Week in Racing
David Yando, Manager of Lane Motor Museum, has put together some fun facts for the race fans out there! Enjoy!
January 20
Major corporate sponsorship of professional international racing begins as Team Lotus repaints its familiar British Racing Green cars in the red/white livery of Gold Leaf Cigarettes for the 1968 Tasman Series in New Zealand.
January 21
Emil Jellinek, whose daughter Mercedes’ name graces the now-familiar Mercedes-Benz, dies in Geneva in 1918.
January 22
The legendary Porsche 959s finish 1st, 2nd, and 6th in the 1986 Paris-Dakar Rally.
January 24
Ken Miles drives his R-1, an MG special, to victory in the Palm Springs CA Desert Trophy race, 1954.
January 26
PL Newman, racer (aka Paul Newman, actor) is born in 1924.
January 28
Bernd Rosemeyer, 1936 European Driver’s Champion, is killed during a record attempt, driving an Auto Union on the autobahn near Frankfurt, Germany. He was attempting to best the earlier record, set that day, of Rudy Caracciola, whose Mercedes achieved 268 mph just minutes earlier. (1938)
Emil Jellinek, Photo courtesy Mercedes-Benz Mexico
Paul Newman, Photo courtesy Nissan NA
Fred Marriot, Photo Courtesy www.birthplaceofspeed2006.com
Bernd Rosemeyer, Photo Courtesy Audi AG
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