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6 Jun 1951
Noritake Takahara
Noritake Takahara is a former Formula One driver from Japan. He participated in 2 Grands Prix, debuting on October 24, 1976. He scored no championship points.

7 Jun 1927
Charles De Tornaco
Belgian racing driver Charles de Tornaco was born on June 7, 1927 in Brussels, Belgium. He participated in 4 Formula One World Championship Grands Prix, debuting on June 22, 1952 in Ferrari. De Tornaco finished that GP in seventh place at the Belgian GP, driving the Ferrari 500. One year later in 1953, the Belgian died at the age of 25 after a testing accident at Monza.

7 Jun 2009
GP Turkey, Istanbul Parktr

8 Jun 1952
Johnny McDowell
Johnny McDowell was an American racecar driver from Delavan, Illinois. McDowell competed in the 1949 to 1952 Indianapolis 500 races. Since the Indy 500 was part of the F1 World Championship between 1950 and 1960 he completed 3 World Championship races.
He was killed at the Champ Car race at the Milwaukee Mile on June 8, 1952 at age 37.

11 Jun 1939
Jackie Stewart
Sir John Young Stewart, better known as Jackie Stewart, and nicknamed The Flying Scot, is a Scottish former racing driver. He competed in 99 Formula One GP's between 1965 and 1973, winning three world titles. During that period he also raced in Can-Am.
Between 1997 and 1999 he was team principal in partnership with his son, Paul Stewart of the Stewart Grand Prix Formula One racing team.

11 Jun 1947
Bob Evans
Robert "Bob" Evans is a British former racing driver from England. He participated in 11 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on March 1, 1975. He scored no championship points. He also competed in numerous non-Championship Formula One races.

11 Jun 1955
1955 Le Mans disaster
After just over two hours of racing in the 1955 edition of Le Mans, Levegh was following Mike Hawthorn's leading Jaguar D-type along the pit straight at the end of Lap 35. At approximately 6:26pm local time, Levegh chased the Austin-Healy of Mike Hawthorn. However, as Hawthorn braked hard to enter the pitlane, Levegh could not void hitting him. His #20 Mercedes-Benz 300 SLR flew in the air and ended up in the spectator area. Immediately after, the magnesium based car cought fire and continued burning for several hours. The event killed Levegh and 82 spectators. The Frenchman drove 6 Grand Prix during his career. He was 49 years old.

Mercedes-Benz consequently decided to leave motorsport for several decades.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1955_Le_Mans_disaster

11 Jun 1964
Jean Alesi
Jean Alesi is a French racing driver of Italian origins. His Formula One career included spells at Tyrrell, Benetton, Sauber, Prost, Jordan and most notably Ferrari where he proved very popular among the tifosi (Italian fanbase).
Alesi debuted in 1989 in a Tyrrell and finished fourth. Despite this formidable entry, Alesi only won a single GP during his lenghty Formula One career. On his 31st birthday he won the Canadian GP in Montreal.

12 Jun 1916
Philip Cade
Philip Cade was an amateur race car driver from the United States. He entered one Formula One Grand Prix (USA 1959) with a privately-entered Maserati 250F, but failed to start due to engine problems.
Phil Cade died August 28, 2001 in Winchester, Massachusetts.

12 Jun 1921
Dennis Taylor
Dennis Taylor was born in Sidcup, Kent, England. As a racing driver, he entered one single championship event, the 1959 British Grand Prix driving his Formula 2 Lotus 12 but he failed to qualify.

He was killed in a minor race at Monte Carlo on June 2, 1962.

12 Jun 1930
Robert Innes Ireland
Robert McGregor Innes Ireland was a Scottish military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver. Ireland's first serious year of auto racing was 1957, by which time he was running a small engineering firm in Surrey. Ireland made his debut for Team Lotus in 1959. In 1960 he won three non-championship Formula One races and finished fourth in the World Drivers Championship. One year later he was sacked after giving up his car to rival Stirling Moss and never had the car to achieve anything any more in F1.
Ireland died of Cancer at the age of 63.

12 Jun 1948
Hans Binder
Hans Binder was born in Zell am Ziller, Innsbruck, Austria. He is a former Formula One driver for Ensign, Wolf, Surtees and ATS teams. He was unable to score any points from his 15 GP starts.

13 Jun 1982
Riccardo Paletti's fatal crash
Driving an Osella in the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal, the Italian crashed into the back of a stationary Didier Pironi on the grid at the start of the race. Rescue workers were quickly on the scene but his injuries proved too severe. Paletti died quickly after arriving at the hospital.

14 Jun 2008
Le Mans 24 hours
Yearly edition of the Le Mans 24 hours race, the most popular prototype race in the world.
http://www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/

18 Jun 1936
Denny Hulme
New Zealander Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme was the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team. He also was a double Can-Am champion.
Denny died on 4 October 1992 of a heart attack whilst driving a BMW M3 during the Bathurst 1000.

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