Jeff Gordon
Wednesday 4th August 1971 Born on this day, Jeff Gordon, a stock-car driver known as “The Kid”. Gordon raced onto the NASCAR scene in 1997 by winning the Winston Cup season points championship for a prestigious second time at the age of 26. “The Kid” was also the first driver to win the Southern 500,…
Elon Reeve Musk
Monday 28th June 1971 Born on this day, Elon Reeve Musk, South African-born, Canadian-American entrepreneur, engineer, inventor and investor. He is the founder, CEO, and CTO of SpaceX; co-founder, CEO, and product architect of Tesla Inc.; co-founder and chairman of SolarCity; co-chairman of OpenAI; co-founder of Zip2; and founder of X.com, which merged with Confinity…
Martin Rowe
Thursday 24th June 1971 Born on this day, Martin Rowe, British rally driver who won the British Rally Championship in 1998, the British Formula Rally Championship in 2001, Production World Rally Championship in 2003 and the Chinese Rally Championship in 2006. Alongside his title in the British Rally Championship in 1998, Rowe took the Formula…
Bernd Maylander
Saturday 29th May 1971 Born on this day, Bernd Maylander, German driver who won the 2000 24 Hours Nürburgring in a Porsche 911 GT3-R.
Tony Stewart
Thursday 20th May 1971 Born on this day, Tony Stewart, American auto racing driver and owner. Throughout his racing career, Stewart has won titles in Indy cars and stock cars as well as midget, sprint and USAC Silver Crown cars, giving him the recognition of “one of the finest racers of his generation.”
Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve
Friday 9th April 1971 Born on this day, Jacques Joseph Charles Villeneuve, Canadian automobile racing driver, and winner of Formula One (1997) and Champ Car (1995) championships and the Indianapolis 500, one of only three drivers to accomplish all three feats (the others being Emerson Fittipaldi and Mario Andretti).
Shinji Nakano
Thursday 1st April 1971 Born on this day, Shinji Nakano, Japanese racing driver who made his F1 debut at the 1997 Australian Grand Prix in Melbourne for the Prost Grand Prix team. The 1997 season saw him score two world championship points with a pair of sixth places.
David Coulthard
Saturday 27th March 1971 Born on this day, David Coulthard, often known as DC, is a British former Formula One racing driver. He made his Formula One debut in 1994 and won 13 Grands Prix in a career spanning 15 seasons. Twice a winner in Monaco, Coulthard was team-mate to Mika Häkkinen in the Finn’s…
Satoshi Motoyama
Thursday 4th March 1971 Born on this day, Satoshi Motoyama, the 1998, 2001, 2003, and 2005 Formula Nippon Champion.
Pedro de la Rosa
Wednesday 24th February 1971 Born on this day, Pedro de la Rosa, Spanish Formula One driver who has participated in 103 Grands Prix for the Arrows, Jaguar, McLaren, Sauber and HRT F1 teams. He made his F1 debut on 7 March 1999, becoming one of very few drivers to score a point at his first…
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