Tuesday 19th May 1931

Born on this day, Bob Anderson, British Grand Prix motorcycle road racer and racecar driver who competed in Grand Prix motorcycle racing from 1958 to 1960 and in Formula One from 1963 to the 1967 seasons. In 1967 he suffered an accident while testing at Silverstone, in which he slid off the track in wet conditions and hit a marshal’s post. Anderson suffered serious chest and neck injuries and died later in Northampton General Hospital