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6 April: Today in Racing

Editor06.04.2020

Giancarlo Fisichella won a chaotic 2003 Brazilian Grand Prix to the Jordan team's final victory on its 200th F1 start after late race drama saw Kimi Räikkönen’s McLaren demoted to second and third placed Fernando Alonso receiving medical attention at the time of the ceremony following a major multi crash after a late rainstorm.

Felipe Massa led a Ferrari 1-2 over Räikkönen at Bahrain in 2008, with BMW Sauber driver Robert Kubica was third, while it was Mercedes’ turn to dominate on the desert track in 2014  as Lewis Hamilton took his first win in Bahrain win from teammate Nico Rosberg and Sergio Pérez’ Mercedes-powered Force India

Looking much further back Albert Lemaître drove his Peugeot to win the 1899 Pau-Bayonne-Pau road race, while in other single seater action, René Dreyfus won the 1930 Monte Carlo Grand Prix in 35B as only six Bugattis finished the race. Philippe Etancelin took his Bugatti 35C to victory in the 1931 Circuit D'esterel-Plage in France.  

Ferrari was busy in 1952 as Gigi Villoresi’s 375 won the 1952 GP del Valentino in Torino, on the same day that Bill Dobson steered his F2 Ferrari to win in Charterhall in England. It was also busy in 1953 as Alberto Ascari took his Ferrari 500 to Pau GP victory and Emmanuel de Graffenried’s Maserati A6GCM won the Goodwood Lavant Cup

More recently, Brian Redman steered his Lola T332 European F5000 honours in Silverstone’s Vanwall Trophy, while across the pond in Indycars, AJ Foyt won the 1975 Trenton 200, Kevin Cogan the 1986 Dana 200, Scott Pruett the ’97 CART Surfers Paradise GP albeit in Australia and Graham Rahal the 2008 GP of St.Petersburg.  

In South African F1, Bill Jennings’ Riley Special won the 1957 Settlers Trophy at Grand Central, Doug Serrurier won the 1963 Pietermaritzburg Coronation 100 in his LDS Alfa-Romeo, while Basil van Rooyen won that race in McLaren M7a Ford-Cosworth in 1969, the same day that Graeme Lawrence won the  Singapore GP at Sembawang Singapore in a F2 McLaren Cosworth

There was a fair bit of sportscar action on this day as Jacques Laffite and Arturo Merzario took 1975 Dijon WSC honours in an Alfa Romeo 33 and Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian’s Peugeot 908 won at Catalunya in 2008. Over in the US, Doc Bundy and Sarel van der Merwe’s Lola-Corvette won the ’86 Road Atlanta IMSA race and Max Angelelli and Jordan Taylor the 2013 Porsche 250 Grand-Am.

Moving over to NASCAR Grand Nationals, Dick Rathman won in 1952 Richard Petty in ’67 and Bobby Isaac in ’69, while Petty was back in victory lane in Cup in ’75. 6 April was a good day for the Earnhardts, as Dale Sr. won in ’85 and Junior in 2003, while Rusty Wallace won in ’86, Jeff Burton in ’97 and Carl Edwards in 2008. Meanwhile in Aussie, Fabian Coulthard won in V8 Supercars in 2013 and Mark Winterbottom in ‘14

In Touring Cars, Win Percy and Tom Walkinshaw’s Rover Vitesse took ’86 European honours at Donington and  Gabriele Tarquini’s Alfa Romeo 156 and Dirk Muller’s BMW 320i shared 2003 Barcelona wins. Seat Leon drivers Jordi Gene and Tiago Monteiro shared WTCC wins at Puebla in Mexico on this day, while Graham Hill Jaguar 3.8 took the Oulton Park BTCC win way back in 1963.

There was one World Rally Championship round on this day in Portugal in 2014, where Sebastien Ogier took the win in a Volkswagen Polo R WRC. In other race news, Rudolf Caracciola and Hermann Lang shook the new Mercedes-Benz W165 GP car down at Hockenheim in 1939. Lang turned 30 that day, he shares a 6 April birthday with US board track legend Pete De Paolo. (Photo: Ferrari)

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