Wednesday 22nd September 1954

Born on this day, Randy Lanier, former race car driver and convicted drug trafficker from the United States of America. He is notable for winning the 1984 IMSA Camel GT title as a wholly independent team, despite facing up to well funded and supported oppositions and the team’s questionable source of income. In 1988 he received a life without parole prison sentence for running a multi0million dollar drugs empire.