ON THIS DAY IN MOTORSPORT - OCTOBER 24 (with thanks to racing-reference.info for F1, CART and NASCAR results) SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Honda gets their first win in Formula One as Richie Ginther wins the 1965 Grand Prix of Mexico in the #11 Honda R&D Co. Honda RA272 * First F1 race at Fuji International Speedway - 1976 Japanese Grand Prix * 2010: First Formula 1 race at the Korean International Circuit and the first-ever Korean Grand Prix. BIRTHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * George R. Little George Amick (October 24, 1924, Vernonia, Oregon – April 4, 1959, Daytona Beach, Florida) - competed in USAC National midgets for three seasons, finishing in the top ten points each season, and won 16 feature races. He moved to Indy cars and won three times in 43 starts. He totaled 38 wins including the 1957 Turkey Night Grand Prix. He was killed in a crash in a USAC 100-mile (160 km) race at Daytona International Speedway. Joachim Winkelhock (born 24 October 1960) - 1988 German Formula Three Champion, 1988 European Cup, he won the 24 Hours Nürburgring in 1990 and 1991 with a BMW M3 entered by Schnitzer Motorsport, 1993 British Touring Car Champion, 1994 Asia Pacific Touring Car Champion, 1995 German Supertouring Champion, 1995 Spa 24 Hours winner. David Blaney (born October 24, 1962 Hartford Township, Trumbull County, Ohio, U.S.) - 1984 USAC Silver Crown Champion, 1995 World of Outlaws Champion, and 28 top tens from 473 races in Sprint Cup, and 1 win and 31 Top Tens from 121 races in Nationwide Brian Lee Vickers (born October 24, 1983 in Thomasville, North Carolina) - 2003 Busch Series champion, and at age 20, became the youngest champion in any of NASCARs three top-tier series. He has 3 wins and 77 Top Tens from 312 starts in Sprint Cup, and 3 wins with 78 Tope Tens from 148 starts in Nationwide DEATHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * A Beechcraft Super King Air 200 aircraft owned by Hendrick Motorsports crashed into Bull Mountain, seven miles from Blue Ridge Airport, Martinsville, Virginia. All ten aboard the plane were killed, among them members of the Hendrick family including John Hendrick, president of Hendrick Motorsports; and former NASCAR Busch Series driver and owner Ricky Hendrick. * Joseph Riddick Ricky Hendrick IV (April 2, 1980 Charlotte, North Carolina, – October 24, 2004) - son of Rick Hendrick who competed in both the Busch Series (3 top tens) and Craftsman Truck Series 1 win and 23 top tens) before his death from an airplane accident on October 24, 2004. He was killed with seven other family members and friends during the accident. ———— RACE WINS: ———— V8 SUPERCARS/AUSTRALIAN TOURING CARS Allan Grice wins the 1976 ATCC round 9 at Adelaide International Raceway in the #12 Craven Mild Racing Holden LH Torana SL/R 5000 L34 Garth Tander wins the 2009 V8SC round 19 at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in the #2 Holden Racing Team VE Commodore Jamie Whincup and Steve Owen win the 2010 V8SC round 20 at Surfers Paradise Street Circuit in the #1 Triple Eight Race Engineering Holden VE Commodore FORMULA 1:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Mike Hawthorn wins the 1954 Grand Prix of Spain in the #38 Scuderia Ferrari 553 Richie Ginther wins the 1965 Grand Prix of Mexico in the #11 Honda R&D Co. Honda RA272 Mario Andretti wins the 1976 Japanese Grand Prix in the #5 John Player Team Lotus Ayrton Senna wins the 1993 Fuji Television Japanese Grand Prix in the #8 Marlboro McLaren Fernando Alonso wins the 2010 Korean Grand Prix in the #8 Scuderia Ferrari Marlboro Ferrari F10 USAC/CART/IRL/INDYCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Don Branson wins the 1965 Golden State 100 at Sacramento in the #4 Wynns (Bob Wilke) Watson / Offy Bruno Junqueira wins the 2004 Lexmark Indy 300 in the #6 PacifiCare (Newman Haas Racing) Lola / Ford NASCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Hershel McGriff wins the 1954 Wilkes 160 in the #14 Air Lift (Frank Christian) 54 Oldsmobile - his final carer win. Richard Petty wins the 1971 American 500 in the #43 Petty Enterprises 71 Plymouth Dick Hutcherson wins the NASCAR Grand National race 53 of 1965 at Orange Speedway, Hillsboro, NC in the #47 Holman-Moody 65 Ford Rusty Wallace wins the 1993 AC Delco 500 at North Carolina in the #2 Miller Genuine Draft (Roger Penske) Pontiac Jeff Burton wins the 1999 Pop Secret Microwave Popcorn 400 at Rockingham in the #99 Exide Batteries (Jack Roush) Ford Jimmie Johnson wins the 2004 Subway 500 at Martinsville in the #48 Lowes (Rick Hendrick) Chevrolet Denny Hamlin wins the 2010 Tums Fast Relief 500 at Martinsville in the #11 FedEx Express (Joe Gibbs) Toyota
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 23:00:00 +0000
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