ON THIS DAY IN MOTORSPORT - AUGUST 28 (with thanks to racing-reference.info for F1, CART and NASCAR results) SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * 1937 – Toyota Motors becomes an independent company. BIRTHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Randall LaJoie (born August 28, 1961, Norwalk, Connecticut, USA) - two-time nascar Busch Series champion. He is the father of racers Casey and Corey LaJoie. * Raphael Matos (born August 28, 1981 Belo Horizonte., Brazil) - 2008 Firestone Indy Lights Series champion and the 2007 Champ Car Atlantic Series champion. * James Davison (born 28 August 1986 in Melbourne, Australia) - 2 time Indy Lights event winner and 2014 Indianpolis 500 qualifier. He is a third-generation race driver whose father Jon Davison was a Formula 5000 competitor and long-running promotor of Sandown Raceway. Davisons grandfather, Lex Davison, was a four-time winner of the Australian Grand Prix. He is a cousin of V8 Supercar drivers Alex and Will Davison. * Valtteri Bottas (born 28 August 1989 in Nastola, Finland) 2011 GP3 Champion who currently competing in Formula One with Williams. He currently resides in Monaco. As of his birthday in 2014, he had two second and two 3rd placings in F1, all in there 2014 season. DEATHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Philip Toll Hill, Jr. (April 20, 1927 – August 28, 2008) - only American-born driver to win the Formula One World Drivers Championship (Mario Andretti, won the Championship in 1978, but was not born in the United States). He also scored three wins at each of the 24 Hours of Le Mans and 12 Hours of Sebring sports car races. ———— RACE WINS: ———— FORMULA 1:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Niki Lauda wins the 1977 Grand Prix of the Netherlands in the #11 Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC Ferrari 312T2 Rene Arnoux wins the 1983 Grand Prix of the Netherlands in the #28 Scuderia Ferrari SpA SEFAC Ferrari 126C3 Ayrton Senna wins the 1988 Champion Grand Prix of Belgium in the #12 Honda Marlboro McLaren Damon Hill wins the 1994 Grand Prix of Belgium in the #0 Rothmans Williams Renault Sebastian Vettel wins the 2011 Shell Belgian Grand Prix in the #1 Red Bull Racing Red Bull RB7 USAC/CART/IRL/INDYCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Len Sutton wins the 1960 Milwaukee 200 in the #9 S-R Racing Enterprises (Pete Salemi) Watson / Offy Tony Kanaan wins the 2005 Argent Mortgage Indy Grand Prix at Infineon in the #11 Team 7-Eleven (Andretti Green Racing) D/H/F Oriol Servia wins the 2005 Molson Indy Montreal in the #2 PacifiCare (Newman Haas Racing) Lola / Ford Sebastien Bourdais wins the 2006 Molson Grand Prix of Montreal in the #1 McDonalds (Newman Haas Racing) Lola / Ford Dario Franchitti wins the 2010 Peak Antifreeze Indy 300 at Chicagoland in the #10 Breathe Right (Chip Ganassi) D/H/F Will Power wins the 2011 Indy Grand Prix of Sonoma in the #12 Verizon (Roger Penske) D/H/F NASCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Junior Johnson wins the 1965 Myers Brothers 250 at Bowman Gray Stadium in the #26 Junior Johnson 65 Ford Richard Petty wins the 1970 Myers Brothers 250 at Bowman Gray Stadium in the #43 Petty Enterprises 70 Plymouth Tiny Lund wins the 1970 Myers Brothers 250 at Hickory in the #55 Ronnie Hopkins 69 Camaro Cale Yarborough wins the 1977 Volunteer 400 at Bristol in the #11 Holly Farms (Junior Johnson) Chevrolet Darrell Waltrip wins the 1982 Busch 500 at Bristol in the #11 Mountain Dew (Junior Johnson) Buick Mark Martin wins the 1993 Bud 500 at Bristol in the #6 Valvoline (Jack Roush) Ford Dale Earnhardt wins the 1999 Goodys Headache Powder 500 at Bristol in the #3 GM Goodwrench Service Plus Sign (Richard Childress) Chevrolet Dale Earnhardt, Jr. wins the 2004 Sharpie 500 at Bristol in the #8 Budweiser (Dale Earnhardt, Inc.) Chevrolet
Posted on: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 23:00:00 +0000
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