ON THIS DAY IN MOTORSPORT - OCTOBER 21 (with thanks to racing-reference.info for F1, CART and NASCAR results) SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Niki Lauda clinches his third drivers championship by a slim half point over Prost, needing to finish second no matter what Alain Prost did. * Kimi Raikkonen clinches the 2007 Formula One World Championship at the Grand Prix of Brazil in the #6 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F2007 BIRTHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Allan Maxwell Grice OAM (born 21 October 1942 Maitland, New South Wales) - 1986 and 1990 Bathurst 1000 winner, 1978 and 1979 Australian Sports Sedan champion, 1984 Australian GT champion, 1991 James Hardie 12 Hour race at Bathurst.He went on to be a politician, while still racing no less! He served in the Queensland Parliament as a member for Broadwater from 1992 to 2001. After retiring from the sport in 2005 he now runs a LPG conversion business, LPGricey Tanks. Chad Kemenah (Born 10/21/1971 Findlay, OH) - has over 100 victories in a sprint car including 27 with the All Star Circuit of Champions, and 5 with the World of Outlaws. Chad’s many accomplishments also include a 3rd place finish at Eldora Speedway for the Kings Royal event, and an astounding 2nd place finish at the world-famous Knoxville Nationals. Karl Harris (21 October 1979 – 3 June 2014) - three-time British Supersport champion. Harris was killed during the 2014 Isle of Man TT. ———— RACE WINS: ———— V8 SUPERCARS/AUSTRALIAN TOURING CARS * Harry Firth and Bob Jane win the 1962 Armstrong 500 in the #21 Ford Motor Company Ford XL Falcon FORMULA 1:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Alain Prost wins the 1984 Grand Prix of Portugal in the #7 Marlboro McLaren Nelson Piquet wins the 1990 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix in the #20 Benetton Kimi Raikkonen wins the 2007 Grand Prix of Brazil in the #6 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F2007 USAC/CART/IRL/INDYCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Jud Larson wins the 1956 Golden State 100 at Sacramento in the #8 John Zink Watson / Offy Danny Sullivan wins the 1990 Champion Spark Plug 300K at Laguna Seca in the #7 Marlboro (Roger Penske) Penske / Chevrolet Sebastien Bourdais wins the 2007 Lexmark Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in the #1 McDonalds (Newman Haas Lanigan Racing) Panoz / Cosworth NASCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Fonty Flock wins the 1951 Wilkes 200 in the #7 Gray Ghost (Ted Chester) 51 Oldsmobile David Pearson wins the 1973 American 500 at Rockingham in the #21 Purolator (Wood Brothers) 71 Mercury Richard Petty wins the 1979 American 500 at Rockingham in the #43 STP (Petty Enterprises) Chevrolet Bill Elliott wins the 1984 Warner W. Hodgdon American 500 at Rockingham in the #9 Coors (Harry Melling) Ford Alan Kulwicki wins the 1990 AC Delco 500 at Rockingham in the #7 Zerex (Alan Kulwicki) Ford Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the 2001 EA Sports 500 at Talladega in the #8 Budweiser (Dale Earnhardt, Inc.) Chevrolet Jimmie Johnson wins the 2007 Subway 500 at Martinsville in the #48 Lowes (Rick Hendrick) Chevrolet Matt Kenseth wins the 2012 Hollywood Casino 400 at Kansas in the #17 Zest (Jack Roush) Ford
Posted on: Mon, 20 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0000
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