Thursday 2nd December 1937

Born on this day, Chris Bristow, British Formula One driver, known as the wild man of British club racing, as he had spun out or had collisions on almost every race track he had raced on. He started four Formula One World Championship races and scored no championship points. Sadly he was killed during the 1960 Belgian Grand Prix at the very fast Spa-Francorchamps circuit, in warm, dry, sunny conditions. Bristow’s Cooper impacted an embankment bank and rolled over; he was hurled into the barbed wire, which decapitated him.