Welcome to Monday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Josh, Kevin Hodge, Christos and Yhacbec!
On this day in motorsport
80 today: Ron Dennis, pictured with Lewis Hamilton in 2009
Born today in 1946: Former McLaren boss Ron Dennis, who ran the team during the height of its success with Niki Lauda, Alain Prost, Ayrton Senna and others
40 years ago today Hans Stuck, Derek Bell and Al Holbert won the Le Mans 24 Hours for Porsche. Another Porsche driver, Jo Gartner, was killed in a crash during the race on Sunday morning
40 years ago today Bobby Rahal scored an emotional Indianapolis 500 victory (below) for Truesports as team founder Jim Trueman had been diagnosed with colon cancer, and died 11 days later
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
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