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30 March: Today in Racing

Editor30.03.2020

There were four Grands Prix ad different venues over the years on 30 March, starting with 1974 in South Africa, where Carlos Reutemann became the first Argentinian in 16 years since Fangio to win also in Brabham's first grand prix victory since 1970, also at Kyalami. Jean-Pierre Beltoise was a surprise second for BRM from Mike Hailwood’s McLaren.

Six years later Nelson Piquet shrugged off a dramatic and accident strewn 1980 US GP West at Long Beach California to take a maiden win off pole position with the fastest lap for Brabham. The race was marred by a career-ending late race accident that rendered Clay Regazzoni a paraplegic after his Ensign’s throttle jammed open.

Moving on to Brazil in ’97 when Jacques Villeneuve similarly raced his Williams from pole to win with fastest lap too as he came home ahead of Gerhard Berger’s Benetton and Oliver Panis in a Prost. It was much the same in Malaysia in 2014 when Lewis Hamilton dominated from pole with the fastest lap too, from Mercedes teammate Nico Rosberg and Sebastian Vettel’s Red Bull.  

There were a few non-championship F1 races in England over the years on 30 March, including Stirling Moss winning the 1959 Goodwood Glover Trophy in a Cooper-Climax, while Graham Hill steered his BRM to win the 1962 Lombank Trophy at Snetterton and Jack Brabham took the ’69 Silverstone International Trophy in a Brabham. Carlos Reutemann also won the first non-championship Brazilian Grand Prix in a Brabham in ’72.

In other racing, Juan Manuel Fangio won the 1952 Montevideo Grand Prix in a Ferrari, while a little further north in Indycar racing, Len Sutton won the '58 Trenton 100, George Follmer found success in '69 and Will Power in 2014 at St. Petersburg. NASCAR winners in this day included Herb Thomas, Jim Reed, Marvin Panch and Cale Yarborough in Grand Nationals, while Dale Earnhardt, Ryan Newman, Denny Hamlin and Kurt Busch took Cup wins and Australian Touring Car winners included Norm Beechey, Bob Morris in ’75, Peter Brock in ’80 and 2014 Craig Lowndes in '14.

In other news on this day, Renault brothers Louis, Marcel and Fernand established the carmaker in 1899, A1 Grand Prix announced its Nations Cup racing concept in 2004 and in 2008, The News of the World exposed FIA boss Max Mosley’s private orgy with five Nazi-clad prostitutes. Mosley admitted the his participation in the pjaunt but denied but denied the Nazi theme, took the paper to court and won.

On the day that former F1 team boss Eddie Jordan and occasional F1 racer Mike Thackwell were born, Wilhelm Bauer died after he crashed his Daimler at La Turbie, while spoetscar and F1 racer Lucien Bianchi (34) was killed when his Alfa Romeo hit a telegraph pole during Le Mans testing 1969. Tragically Bianchi’s nephew Jules would succumb to his inuries in a Japanese Grand Prix accident in 2015. Former Talbot F1 racer and the the first Frenchman to score World Championship points, Yves Giraud-Cabantous (68) passed in 1973. (Photo: Mercedes)

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