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Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Brakius and Elly Parker!

On this day in motorsport

• 25 years ago today Scott Dixon won the CART IndyCar round at Nazareth for PacWest – the series’ first race since the preceding round in Texas was controversially cancelled
• Born on this day in 1958: Tommy Byrne, future British F3 champion who was tipped as a potential F1 star but only entered five rounds for the struggling Theodore team
• Born on this day in 1964: Andrea Chiesa, who qualified for just three of his 10 appearances in 1992 and retired from all of them
• 20 years ago today Lewis Hamilton scored his first GP2 victory, at the Nurburgring, almost 20 seconds ahead of ART team mate Alexandre Premat despite serving a drive-through penalty for pit lane speeding

Keith Collantine

Lifelong motor sport fan Keith set up RaceFans in 2005 – when it was originally called F1 Fanatic. Having previously worked as a motoring journalist, Keith began running the site full-time in 2010, achieving a long-held ambition to dedicate his full attention to his passion for motor racing. View all posts by Keith Collantine