Tony Shelly
Becoming a member of Bruce McLaren in F1 throughout 1962 was the second driver to hail from New Zealand, Tony Shelly, who entered the British Grand Prix on the wheel of a John Dalton car. His look was temporary, although, as he retired after simply 5 laps attributable to a fault with the automobile.
Shelly went on to enter two extra world championship occasions – on the Nurburgring and Monza – however didn’t qualify on each events.
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Chris Amon
Only one yr later Chris Amon arrived within the sport, making his debut with the Reg Parnell Racing workforce on the 1963 Belgian Grand Prix. This marked the start of a profession in Method 1 that spanned 96 Grands Prix throughout 13 years with many alternative groups, together with Ferrari, March and Ensign.
Whereas he got here near sealing a victory greater than as soon as, Amon’s greatest end result was in the end second place, taken on three events. Very extremely rated however in some way by no means fairly in the suitable place on the proper time to take an F1 win, his unhealthy luck grew to become well-known, main Mario Andretti to joke: “If he grew to become an undertaker, individuals would cease dying.”
Amon known as time on his F1 profession in 1976 and, regardless of leaving with no Grand Prix wins to his identify, he did show victorious at Le Mans in 1966, the place he teamed up with countryman Bruce McLaren behind the wheel of a Ford GT40 Mk.II.
