Welcome to Friday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday to Lin1876!

On this day in motorsport

  • 55 years ago today home favourite Jochen Rindt took pole position for the first round of the world championship to be held at the Osterreichring (now the Red Bull Ring)
  • 75 years ago today Juan Manuel Fangio passed Alfa Romeo team mate Louis Rosier to win the non-championship Pescara Grand Prix on the enormous, 25.7km track. Ferrari and Maserati did not participate
  • 60 years ago today Jo Siffert won the non-championship Mediterranean Grand Prix for Brabham on the high-speed Enna-Pergusa track by just three tenths of a second from Jim Clark’s Lotus

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