This Week in Racing History
July 23
Pre-WWI American racing great Eddie
Rickenbacker dies (1973).
July 24
The Watkins Glen 6-Hours for the World
Championship of Makes, the final race of
the 5-liter sportscar era, is won by a
3-liter Alfa Romeo T33/3 driven by Ronnie
Peterson and Andre de Adamich (1971).
July 25
First Grand National stockcar race for
Chrysler after ending boycott of NASCAR
(1965).
Bobby Allison wins the NASCAR Winston Cup
Mountain Dew 500 at Pocono, Pennsylvania,
USA (1982).
July 26
Drag racer Bruce Allen born in Goodrich,
Michigan, USA (1950).
After a 4 year ban for trying to organize
a drivers union, Curtis Turner is reinstated
by NASCAR (1965).
July 27
Gerhard Berger wins the German Grand Prix
at Hockenheim, his last GP win (1997).
July 28
Andre Ribeiro wins the CART Marlboro 500
at Brooklyn, Michigan, USA. F1 and CART
champion Emmerson Fittipaldi's career ends
in a first lap accident that severely injures
him (1996).
Copyright 2000 Michael J. Stucker
