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This can give a misleading impression to the general public as to the number of deaths that occur in the sport as a whole. The list below shows drivers that have died racing in British national or club car racing series since 1970. The list only includes drivers to have died during a race and only those competing in British. Frank Brian Wrathall Jnr. (born 4 October 1986 in Lancaster) is a British motor racing driver who has competed in the British Touring Car Championship. He won his first race on 21 October 2012 in the final race of the 2012 BTCC season. Having graduated from karting in 2007, Wrathall made his car racing debut in the. Daniel Clive Wheldon (22 June 1978 – 16 October 2011) was a British racing driver. He was the 2005 IndyCar Series champion and a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500, having won the race in 2005 and 2011. Wheldon died from severe head injuries shortly after a collision during the IZOD IndyCar World. Frank Wrathall, 28, a British Touring Car Championship driver, was on the phone to his girlfriend when he hit Paul Fingleton on the A6 near Preston in 2012. David Leslie, one of the most recognised names from the world of British Touring Car racing, was killed in a plane crash at Farnborough, Kent, along with Apex. While remaining an active racing driver, contesting the Britcar series with Lloyd's business partner Harry Handkammer, Leslie was also an. A driver from west London is killed while taking part in a vintage touring car race at the Donington Park circuit in Leicestershire.. In a tribute to Mr Devereux on Twitter, Jason Plato, two-time British Touring Car Champion, described it as "terrible news". The Mini Cooper before the crash Image caption A. He was best-known for his wins in the British Touring Car Championship at the height of the super touring formula's popularity in the late 1990s. He also enjoyed a long and successful career in single-seaters and sportscars. He was Scottish karting champion five times - winning his first title in 1969 before. A top motor racing driver who knocked down and killed a cyclist while he was talking to his model girlfriend on his mobile phone was jailed yesterday. Frank Wrathall, 27, a leading British Touring Car Championship driver, had been chatting to Zara Watt for almost eight minutes with one hand on the. 3 min - Uploaded by Chris Daviesex Nissan British Touring Car driver Keith O'dor is killed when his right hand drive Nissan. THE PROMISING Irish racing driver Neil Shanahan died on his way to hospital after a crash in the Formula Ford Zetec Championship race in the supporting programme for the British Touring Car Championship rounds at Oulton Park yesterday. 2 min - Uploaded by BackstageTVSportscar plunges into TV camera tower at race. A car flipped over a racetrack barrier and. A top Touring Car motor racing driver who knocked down and killed a cyclist while he was talking to his girlfriend on his mobile phone has been jailed for 21 months. Frank Wrathall, 27, once a successful British Touring Car Championship driver whose career now lies in tatters, was chatting to model Zara. A rally driver and co-driver were killed in a crash that took place at the Loco 2 Stages Rally at Bramley camp near Basingstoke on Friday.. British Touring Car Championship racer Rob Collard's son Ricky made his testing debut with factory BMW team WSR at Silverstone, as the young racer looks to follow. Limerick man killed in English road accident named as Shane Stokes. Shane Stokes, who has tragically died, was a promising racing car driver. THE Limerick man who died in a motorway car crash in England has been named as Shane Stokes, originally of Lisnagry. Widespread tributes have been paid to. Sir John Whitmore was one of Alan Mann Racing's most prominent drivers. In his first year in the competition he won the British Saloon Car Championship and came second the following year. He also won the European Touring Car Championship and drove in the 24 Hours of Le Mans for five years between 1959 and 1966. British and European touring car title winner Sir John Whitmore has died at the age of 79. Whitmore was one of Britain's leading drivers of the 1960s, best known for winning the 1961 British Saloon Car Championship and the European Touring Car crown four years later. He started racing in the late 1950s. Jack Sears, the winner of the inaugural British Touring Car Championship, has died at the age of 86.. sadness to learn of Jack's death. "I really liked Jack a lot - not only as an extremely talented and inspirational racing driver, but more importantly as a hugely popular, humble and impressive human being. British Touring Car Championship boss Alan Gow believes it is more important the series has a big audience through free-to-air television rather than. Lap, Gow also reveals that during the championship's 1990s heyday he turned down a big-money offer from Sky because he felt "it would have killed the. Alain Menu is a Swiss racing driver who is currently working for Team BMR as a driving coach. He was one of the most successful touring car drivers of the 1990s, winning the prestigious British Touring Car Championship twice. He drove for Chevrolet in the World Touring Car Championship between 2005.more. Age: 53. TWO drivers from the Dunlop MSA British Touring Car Championship remain in James Cook Hospital in Middlesbrough this morning after a major… British driver Justin Wilson has died after being struck by flying debris and suffering a serious head injury in Sunday's Pocono IndyCar 500 race. Wilson was airlifted to hospital from the Pocono Raceway in Pennsylvania after Sage Karam's car spun and crashed in front of him on lap 179 of 200. Debris from. It is with great sadness that we must report the death of renowned racing driver Will Hoy, a former star of Sportscars and the British Touring Car. A Limerick man who moved to England to become a motor racing driver was killed in a road crash on Sunday as he travelled home for Christmas.. us in the tough times, something I will never forget and he was a larger than life character in the BTCC (British Touring Car Championship) paddock who was. In 1989 he entered the British Formula 3000 series, finishing third overall. In the nineties Ratzenberger switched to Japanese racing. He won one race each in 1990 and 1991 in the Japanese Sports Prototype Championship with the same SARD team he drove for at Le Mans. He also returned to touring car racing in the. One of Canada's top race drivers, Greg Moore, was killed in a horrifying crash in California Sunday, near the start of his last scheduled race of the season. Moore was competing in the CART Marlboro 500 when he lost control on the second turn of the tenth lap in the 250-lap race. His Reynard-Mercedes. There is no denying that the death Saturday night of 20-year-old sprint car driver Kevin Ward, Jr., killed when he was struck by the right rear tire of a sprint. His team released a brief statement, but it is generic and probably vetted by lawyers: “A tragic accident took place last night during a sprint car race in. BTCC Series Director Alan Gow said "It is with great regret and genuine sadness to learn of Jack's death. "I really liked Jack a lot - not only as an extremely talented and inspirational racing driver, but more importantly as a hugely popular, humble and impressive human being. "Jack loved this championship. LONDON — More than $220000 has been donated to help a British racing driver who has had both legs amputated while in an induced coma after being involved in... The British driver, who was 37, had been in a coma since sustaining a head injury when he was hit by a large piece of debris that broke off a car in a crash-filled race at Pocono Raceway on Sunday. IndyCar made the announcement on Monday night at Indianapolis Motor Speedway. “This is a. Even people who drive race cars for a living aren't immune to the dangers of driving while on the phone. British Touring Car Championship driver Frank Wrathall was reportedly on his celly with girlfriend Zara Watt for seven minutes when he hit and killed bicyclist Paul Fingleton on a turn. Read the rest of this entry ». A British race car driver killed in a fiery crash at a Queensland track was concerned about the car's brakes the day before the accident, a court hears. Welsh racing driver Tom Pryce died on the tracks during the South African Grand Prix in Kyalami on 5 March 1977. The horrific accident left two people dead; a marshal Frederick Jansen Van Vuuren, who was running across the tracks to help another driver whose car had caught fire and Pryce himself. He's been building a name for himself as a now multi-championship winning race car driver for years, and for several months he's been preparing for the. I had real pressure since I was going to race in the British Touring Car Championship, and I just wanted to make sure that, not just for now but also the. Race Car Driver Dies In Warmup Crash. Paul Dana's IndyCar is towed into his garage after slamming into Ed Carpenter's car at the Homestead-Miami Speedway in Homestead, Fla. Sunday, March 26, 2006. Drivers Ed Carpenter and Paul Dana were injured in a crash Sunday morning during the warmup. In 1959 he became the youngest driver to win a Grand Prix when he won his first Formula One Grand Prix in America; it was the start of a career which would see many high profile victories. Bruce McLaren died testing a car in 1970, but his name lives on with the team he created and the work he did developing racing cars. Accomplished sprint car driver Dave Steele was killed Saturday night in a crash at Desoto Speedway in Bradenton, Florida. Known for his. Kyle Larson, who won the NASCAR Cup race Sunday at Auto Club (California) Speedway, had once been a teammate of Steele's for a race weekend. "Dave Steele. Coroner David Morris recorded a verdict of accidental death after a short deliberation by a jury of seven women and three men. Mr Allan, from North Swindon, was part of a Honda team which competed in the British Touring Car Championship in 2002. He drove various cars during his 26-year career with. British Touring Car Championship drivers have been meeting fans and signing autographs at Westquay shopping centre, Southampton, ahead of this… Categories : 1930 births 1980 deaths American people of Scottish descent 20th-century American male actors Male actors from Missouri American male film actors American motorcycle racers American tang soo do practitioners Former Roman Catholics British Touring Car Championship drivers Deaths from cancer in. On this day in 2000--eight weeks to the day after the fourth-generation NASCAR driver Adam Petty was killed during practice at the New Hampshire. in April 2000, three days before the death of his great-grandfather, Lee Petty, a pioneer of NASCAR (the acronym stands for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing). Although he inherited the baronetcy on his father's death in 1962, and came to be known popularly as The Racing Baronet, John was completely unpretentious and preferred to be known simply as 'John'. He was without doubt one of the outstanding British touring car drivers in the first half of the 1960s and is probably best. Top Touring Car driver who won three Championships in the UK. In 1995 he joined the works Nissan team in the DTM but was killed at Avus when he spun and was left stranded broadside in the middle of the track. Two cars missed him but he was then struck by Frank Biela's Audi. He passed away later the. One of Britain's leading touring car drivers has been jailed for 21 months after admitting causing death by careless driving. Frank Wrathall, who competed in the British Touring Car Championship. was... After a death during a non-Nascar race, the racing body addressed the issue of drivers' leaving their cars after crashes. From the first days of motor racing, drivers have lived close to the edge. Thanks to marked improvements in safety standards, the number seriously injured and killed competing in the sport has significantly reduced. The last death of a driver in an F1 car was Ayrton Senna in 1994, but in the early years the toll was alarming. While many hail the arrival of the low-cost, production-based touring car formula, there are some are speaking words of fear – some say this could be the death to the BTCC, others that the UK just doesn't need it and it'll never work – but you'll find that most of these voices aren't coming from within either of. His is the first death due to injuries sustained during a race since legendary Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna was killed during the 1994 San Marino Grand. It features the world's best drivers, most sophisticated cars (million-dollar machines engineered by rocket scientists), most storied racetracks, and, one. The NASCAR community was left stunned Wednesday night by the news that driver Jason Leffler had been killed in an accident during a sprint-car race in New Jersey. Leffler, 37, died in a crash at Bridgeport Speedway, a five-eighths mile high-banked dirt track in Swedesboro, N.J. He was pronounced. The '55 Le Mans race looked like it would be one of the greatest since WWII. One British race report praised the variety of the field representing "a United Nations of motor racing." The greatest carmakers in the world were competing, as were the best drivers. Future British F1 champion Mike Hawthorn drove. The 19 British race winners were ranked in each category, with the top driver in each one receiving 19 points and the bottom driver one point. The overall ranking is based. Hawthorn retired from F1 just after winning the championship, but he was tragically killed in a road accident just three months later. A TOP GEAR and James Bond stunt driver who was rumoured to be The Stig had died.. (@PioneerBTCC) May 25, 2016. British touring car driver Jason Plato said: “Tremendously sad news that our pal Neil Cunningham has passed away after such a long fight with @mndassoc. Sleep well my friend.". Even by BTCC standards, the crash you are about to watch is pretty wild. Over the weekend, the British Touring Car Championship travelled to Silverstone. During the second race of the weekend, a three-car tangle sent Rob Collard and his Ebay Motors BMW flying. Gordon Shedden was said to have hit. 3 famous race car drivers who loved to race were big film stars of the day & perhaps the biggest celebrity racing drivers of all time.. much greater, you're not likely to die running or on the back of a horse, or even shooting, unless your aim is freakishly bad – yet racing can result in serious injury or death. Wilson was hit by debris from the car of rookie Sage Karam, who was leading the ABC Supply 500 when his No. 8 Chip Ganassi Racing Chevrolet spun on its own in Turn 1 on Lap 179 of the 200-lap race Sunday. IndyCar drivers are far more susceptible to head injuries because the cockpits are open and. As with all motorsports, Formula One has witnessed fatal accidents. The first driver fatality that occurred in the Formula One series was that of Cameron Earl. He was killed while working as an English Racing Automobiles team technical consultant. His car overturned while he was test driving. He died in the hospital from. A world-renowned racing car driver who doubled for James Bond has died at the age of 52. Neil Cunningham, who lived in Mumbles and raced motorcars in Le Mans, Silverstone, and numerous British GT Championships, had been battling with motor neurone disease (MND) for the past six years. "In Formula One and in Indy cars, tobacco money was a big part of things; it paid for so much of the racing and as a knock-on effect, the driver salaries.. but from a risk-per-dollar-earned standpoint, it seems somewhat comical that the star athlete risking a violent and fiery death for a living receives but a. British Touring Car Championship 2017. With just days to go to the start of this year's BTCC Championship at Brands Hatch, we'd like to wish good luck to all our drivers. Yet again Cobra Seats looks set to be the name behind (and under) many of this year's front runners, so good luck to last year's champion Gordon. “Being a good racing driver is always a balance of being at the peak of your physical abilities and experience," says 1992 British Touring Car. With nothing left to prove following the death of his close friend Francois Cevert at Watkins Glen, Stewart promptly retired one race shy of his 100th Grand Prix, and. The 28-year-old was driving his Mazda 6 car and racing his brother Sulaiman, who was at the wheel of his silver Mercedes - who died in the crash.. At times, the two cars were only feet apart as they vied for position - shocking many motorists and lorry drivers whom they overtook at high speeds,.
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