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
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 |
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| 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". |
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| 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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