John Young ‘Jackie’ Stewart was born in Dumbartonshire, Scotland, on June 11, 1939. His father owned a garage business and Jackie’s older brother Jimmy was the first in the family to
Born Nelson Sautomaior, on August 17, 1952, he used his mother’s surname Piquet to hide his early racing adventures from his disapproving parents. His father, a prominent Brazilian government mi
Five years after Mika Pauli Hakkinen was born, on September 28, 1968, his parents hired a go-kart for him to try at a track near their home outside Helsinki. On the very first lap little Mika had a bi
Had he been born a decade earlier John Michael Hawthorn might have been a heroic Spitfire pilot in the Battle of Britain. Instead, the circumstances in his formative years led him into motorsport and
Karl Jochen Rindt, born on April 18, 1942, in Mainz, Germany, was orphaned as an infant when his wealthy parents were killed in a bombing raid. His maternal grandparents adopted him and brought him up
Keijo Erik Rosberg – he later called himself Keke to make it easier for the media to remember his name – was born in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 6, 1948, where his Finnish parents were
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