Tony Maggs

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Anthony Francis O'Connell Maggs (9 February 1937 – 2 June 2009) was a South African racing driver, who competed in Formula One from Template:Ifnumber to Template:Ifnumber.

Maggs participated in 27 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting at the 1961 British Grand Prix. He achieved three podiums, and scored a total of 26 championship points. He was the first South African to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix.

Life and career

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Maggs following Phil Hill at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix

Anthony Francis O'Connell Maggs was born on 9 February 1937 in Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa.[1] The son of a wealthy farmer and businessman, Tony Maggs was part of Ken Tyrrell's Formula Junior, Cooper-BMC team in 1961 and shared the European Championship with Jo Siffert.[2] He was invited into the Cooper Formula One team for 1962–1963, finishing second in the French Grand Prix both years, but was dropped at the end of 1963.[3][4]

Maggs then moved to Scuderia Centro Sud for 1964 and despite the fact that their BRM P57s were not current machinery achieved two points finishes out of three race starts.[2] He also returned to Formula Two with an MRP Lola and with David Piper won the Kyalami 9 Hours race in the latter's Ferrari GTO.[2]

In 1965, Maggs raced only once in Formula One, for Reg Parnell Racing, in the South African Grand Prix at East London but continued with success in both Formula Two and sports cars.[2] However, in a national race at Pietermaritzburg he crashed his Brabham and a young spectator standing in a restricted area was hit and killed. Maggs immediately retired from motor sport to concentrate on his business interests.[2]

Maggs died on 2 June 2009, from cancer.[1]

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year Entrant Chassis Engine 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 WDC Points
1961 Louise Bryden-Brown Lotus 18 Climax Straight-4 MON NED BEL FRA GBR
13Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GER
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ITA USA NC 0
1962 Cooper Car Company Cooper T55 Climax Straight-4 NED
5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MON
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GER
9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		7th 13
Cooper T60 Climax V8 BEL
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		FRA
2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GBR
6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ITA
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		USA
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RSA
3Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
1963 Cooper Car Company Cooper T66 Climax V8 MON
5Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BEL
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		NED
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		FRA
2Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GBR
9Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GER
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ITA
6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		USA
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MEX
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		RSA
7Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		8th 9
1964 Scuderia Centro Sud BRM P57 BRM V8 MON NED
DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		BEL
DNSScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		FRA GBR
RetScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		GER
6Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		AUT
4Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		ITA USA MEX 12th 4
1965 Reg Parnell Racing Lotus 25 BRM V8 RSA
11Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 		MON BEL FRA GBR NED GER ITA USA MEX NC 0

References

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