ON THIS DAY IN MOTORSPORT - JUNE 18 (with thanks to racing-reference.info) BIRTHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Frank Rebel Mundy (born June 18, 1918 in Atlanta, Georgia as Francisco Eduardo Menendez – died May 15, 2009) - competed in the American Automobile Association (AAA) stock cars, winning the 1955 national championship and won three races in NASCARs Grand National (now Sprint Cup Series) * Denis Clive Denny Hulme, OBE (18 June 1936 – 4 October 1992) - 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team. He also finished third in the overall standing in 1968 and 1972. Hulmes died by heart attack, whilst driving a BMW M3 during the Bathurst 1000 in Australia in 1992. * Jeff Stanton (born June 18, 1968 in Coldwater, Michigan) is a three-time AMA 250cc Motocross and Supercross National Champion, winning the titles in 1989, 1990 and 1992. Stanton rode for Honda for the better part of his career, earning all of his championships with them. Before team Honda, he rode a Yamaha as a privateer. He retired from professional motocross in 1994. In 2000 he was inducted into the AMA Motorcycle Hall of Fame. * James Moffat (born 18 June 1984 in Melbourne, Victoria) - currently competes for Nissan Motorsport in the #360 Norton Nissan in the V8 Supercars Championship, claiming his first win at Winton in 2013, and the first for major Australian victory for Nissan in 21 years. ———— RACE WINS: ———— SPECIAL EVENTS||||||||||||||||||| Yannick Dalmas, Masanori Sekiya and J.J. Lehto win the 1995 24 Hours of Le Mans Kokusai Kaihatsu Racing Tokyo Ueno Clinic McLaren F1 GTR Frank Biela, Tom Kristensen and Emanuele Pirro win the 2000 24 Hours of Le Mans in the #8 Audi Sport Team Joest Audi Frank Biela, Emanuele Pirro and Marco Werner win the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Audi Sport Team Joest Audi NHRA: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Rod Fuller, Ron Capps, Jason Line and Matt Smith win the 2006 K&N Filters SuperNationals at Englishtown, N.J. V8 SUPERCARS/AUSTRALIAN TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP * Rick Kelly wins the 2011 V8SC round 12 at Hidden Valley Raceway in the Kelly Racing Holden VE Commodore FORMULA 1:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Juan Manuel Fangio wins the 1950 Grand Prix of Belgium in the #10 SA Alfa Romeo Phil Hill wins the 1961 Grand Prix of Belgium in the #4 Scuderia Ferrari Thierry Boutsen wins the 1989 Molson Grand Prix of Canada in the #5 Canon Williams Renault Michael Schumacher wins the 2000 Air Canada Grand Prix in the #3 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari USAC/CART/IRL/INDYCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * A.J. Foyt wins the 1961 Langhorne 100 in the #1 Bowes Seal Fast (George Bignotti) Meskowski / Offy Lloyd Ruby wins the 1967 Langhorne 100 in the #25 American Red Ball (Gene White) Lotus / Ford Dan Gurney wins the 1967 Grand Prix of Belgium in the #36 Anglo American Racers Eagle T1G/Weslake 3.0 V12 Rick Mears wins the 1978 Rex Mays Classic at Milwaukee in the #7 Gould Charge (Roger Penske) Penske / Cosworth Emerson Fittipaldi wins the 1989 Detroit Grand Prix in the #20 Marlboro (Pat Patrick / Chip Ganassi) Penske / Chevrolet Helio Castroneves wins the 2000 Tenneco Automotive Grand Prix of Detroit in the #3 Marlboro (Roger Penske) Reynard/Honda A.J. Allmendinger wins the 2006 Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland in the #7 Indeck (Gerry Forsythe) Lola / Ford NASCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Bill Blair wins the NASCAR Grand National race 6 of 1950 at Vernon Fairgrounds, Vernon, NY in the #2 Sam Rice 50 Mercury Junior Johnson wins the NASCAR Grand National race 21 of 1955 at Fonda Speedway, Fonda, NY in the #55 B & L Motors (Jim Lowe / Carl Beckham) 55 Oldsmobile Richard Petty wins the 1967 Carolina 500 in the #43 Petty Enterprises 67 Plymouth Ray Elder wins the 1972 Golden State 400 at Riverside CA, in the #96 Olympia Brewing Company (Fred Elder) 71 Dodge Terry Labonte wins the 1989 Miller High Life 500 at Pocono in the #11 Budweiser (Junior Johnson) Ford Bobby Labonte wins the 1995 Miller Genuine Draft 400 at Michigan in the #18 Interstate Batteries (Joe Gibbs) Chevrolet Kasey Kahne wins the 2006 3M Performance 400 Presented by Post-It Picture Paper in the #9 Dodge Dealers / UAW / Click (Ray Evernham) Dodge
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