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5 April: Today in Racing

Editor05.04.2020

In race history on 5 April over the years, there were two Grands Prix, first in Brazil in 1992, where Nigel Mansell beat Williams teammate Riccardo Patrese and Michael Schumacher’s Benetton as the Grove outfit dominated.  

The other GP was the rain-interrupted 2009 Malaysian race won by Jenson Button’s Brawn-Mercedes, when the flag flew early after 31 laps due to a torrential downpour. Nick Heidfeld was second for BMW Sauber and Timo Glock third for Toyota in the fifth-shortest ever Grand Prix as Brawn GP became only the first constructor to ever win their first two Grands Prix since Alfa Romeo won the first ever GPs in 1950.

Indycar racing over the years saw Mario Andretti win at Long Beach in 1987, Bobby Rahal in ’92 and Alex Zanardi in 98, while Ryan Briscoe won in St. Petersburg in 2009. Also at St Petersburg in 2008 Lucas Luhr and Marco Werner drove their Audi R10 TDI to American Le Mans victory, while off the beaten track, Sébastien Loeb won the 2009 WRC Rally de Portugal for Citroën ahead of Mikko Hirvonen’s Ford and Daniel Sordo’s Citroën.

In stock car racing, Kurt Busch won in the 2003 International Race of Champions, while NASCAR Grand National winners over the years included upset winner Dick Passwater, Bob Welborn, Lee Petty, Rex White, Fred Lorenzen and Donnie Allison, and Richard Petty, Alan Kulwicki, Mark Martin and Jeff Gordon. Jim Richards Mark Skaife, Doug Heveron, Fabian Coulthard and Lee Holdsworth meanwhile all won Australian Touring Car Championship races on this day.

In other news, in 1934 a Renault team set a new 185km/h 48-hour speed record at Montlhéry and in 1963, Craig Breedlove became the first man to travel over 650km/h on land driving the jet engined Spirit of America. 5 April birthdays include US GT racer John Greenwood, NASCAR driver Mike Bliss, Dakar and touring Car twins Tom and Tim Coronel and sportscar man Alexandre Premat, while in 2000, racing said goodbye to triple champion, NASCAR legend and patriarch of the Petty racing dynasty, Lee at 86. (Photo: Bridgestone)

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