ON THIS DAY IN MOTORSPORT - OCTOBER 27 (with thanks to racing-reference.info for F1, CART and NASCAR results) SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Former F1 racer and British Touring Car champion, Frank Gardner starts in his only NASCAR event. An engine failure in the first lap ended his race. * Pontiac announces that the company would be withdrawing from NASCAR at the end of the 2003 season. * Vettels victory in the 2013 Airtel Indian Grand Prix clinches the 2013 World Championship for him, making it an incredible four titles in a row. BIRTHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Richard Brickhouse (born October 27, 1939 in Rocky Point, North Carolina) - inaugural Talladega 500 winner in 1969 after a boycott of the top stars of the sport at the time because concerns with tire wear with the high rate of speeds at the racetrack. He retired in 1982 with 13 career top 10s in 39 races. His nephew Jeremy, is a longtime spotter in the Sprint Cup Series for Kurt Busch. * Richard Dick Trickle (October 27, 1941 – May 16, 2013) - The White Knight - legendary American race car driver and from more than an estimated 2,200 races, logged one million laps and is believed to have won over 1,200 feature races, being billed as the winningest short track driver in history. DEATHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Ernest Arthur Douglas Eldridge (18 July 1897 – 27 October 1937) was a British racing car driver who broke the world land speed record in 1924. His was the last land speed record set on an open road. Speed over 1 km -146.01 mph 234.98 km/h, Speed over 1 mile -145.89 mph 234.79 km/h, Car - FIAT Special Mephistopheles II (Mefistofele) ———— RACE WINS: ———— NHRA: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Antron Brown, John Force, Shane Grayand Matt Smith win the 2013 NHRA Las Vegas Nationals at Las Vegas, Nev. V8 SUPERCARS/AUSTRALIAN TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP * Jim Richards wins the 1985 Motorcraft 300at Surfers Paradise, Queensland in the #1 BMW 635 CSi FORMULA 1:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Jimmy Clark wins the 1963 Grand Prix of Mexico in the #8 Team Lotus Sebastian Vettel wins the 2013 Airtel Indian Grand Prix in the #1 Infiniti Red Bull Racing Red Bull RB9 USAC/CART/IRL/INDYCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Rodger Ward wins the NASCAR Grand National race number 54 of 1963 at Orange Speedway, Hillsboro, NC in the #1 Kaiser Aluminum (Bob Wilke) Watson / Offy Mario Dominguez wins the 2002 Honda Indy 300 at Surfers Paradise in the #55 Herdez (Keith Wiggins) Lola / Ford NASCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Buck Baker wins the NASCAR Grand National race number 53 of 1957 at Greensboro Fairgrounds, Greensboro, NC in the #87 Buck Baker 57 Chevrolet Joe Weatherly wins the NASCAR Grand National race 54 of 1963 at Orange Speedway, Hillsboro, NC in the #8 Bud Moore 63 Pontiac Richard Petty wns the 1968 American 500 in the Plymouth By Petty (Petty Enterprises) 68 Plymouth Bobby Hamilton wins the 1996 Dura Lube 500 at Phoenix in the #43 STP (Petty Enterprises) Pontiac - his first win and the first win for Petty Enterprises since 1983. Kurt Busch wins the 2002 NAPA 500 Atlanta in the Rubbermaid / Sharpie (Jack Roush) Ford Jeff Gordon wins the 2003 Bass Pro Shops MBNA 500 in the #24 DuPont (Rick Hendrick) Chevrolet Jeff Gordon wins the 2013 Goodys Headache Relief Shot 500 in the #24 Drive to End Hunger / AARP (Rick Hendrick) Chevrolet
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