ON THIS DAY IN MOTORSPORT - JUNE 10 SIGNIFICANT EVENTS:|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Bill Whittington, Don Whittington and Klaus Ludwig win the 1979 24 Hours of Le Mans in the Porsche Kremer Racing Numero Reserve/Philippe Salvet Porsche 935 BIRTHS:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * David Walker (born 10 June 1941 in Sydney) - Australian former racing driver who drove for Lotus in the 1971 and 1972 Formula One Championships. Scott McLaughlin (born 10 June 1993 Christchurch, New Zealand) - youngest ever V8 super car driver, 2012 NZ V8 SuperTourers Champion, 2012 Dunlop V8 Supercar Series champion, and won Volvo their first victory since 1986 on May 16, 2014. ———— RACE WINS: ———— NHRA: ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Larry Dixon, Gary Scelzi, Jeg Couglin and Andrew Hines win the 2007 Torco Racing Fuels Route 66 NHRA Nationals in Chicago, Ill. V8 SUPERCARS/AUSTRALIAN TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP * Peter Brock wins the 1973 ATCC round 6 at Adelaide International Raceway in the #1 Holden Dealer Team LJ Torana GTR XU-1 Colin Bond wins the 1990 ATCC round 6 at Mallala Motor Sport Park in the #8 Caltex CXT Racing Ford Sierra RS500 Steven Richards wins the 2000 V8SC round 6 at Canberra Street Circuit in the #7 Gibson Motor Sport Holden VT Commodore Steven Johnson wins the 2001 V8SC round 5 at Canberra Street Circuit in the #6 Shell Helix Racing Ford AU Falcon FORMULA 1:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Ayrton Senna wins the 1990 Molson Grand Prix of Canada in the #27 Honda Marlboro McLaren Ralf Schumacher wins the 2001 Air Canada Grand Prix in the #5 BMW Williams Lewis Hamilton wins the 2007 Grand Prix of Canada in the #2 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes Lewis Hamilton wins the 2012 Grand Prix of Canada in the #4 Vodafone McLaren Mercedes USAC/CART/IRL/INDYCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| * Pat Flaherty wins the 1956 Rex Mays Classic at the #8 John Zink Watson/Offy A.J. Foyt wins the 1962 Rex Mays Classic in the #1 Bowes Seal Fast (George Bignotti) Trevis/Offy Bobby Unser wins the 1973 Rex Mays Classic in the #8 Olsonite (Oscar Olson) Eagle/Offy Bobby Unser wins both the 1979 Trenton Twin Indy races in the #12 Norton Spirit (Roger Penske) Penske / Cosworth A.J. Foyt wins the 1979 Rex Mays Classic in the #14 Gilmore Racing (A.J. Foyt)Parnelli/Cosworth Helio Castroneves wins the 2006 Bombardier LearJet 500 at Texas in the #3 Marlboro (Roger Penske) D/H/F Sebastien Bourdais wins the 2007 Mazda Champ Car Grand Prix of Portland in the #1 McDonalds (Newman Haas Lanigan Racing) Panoz / Cosworth NASCAR:||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| Tim Flock wins the NASCAR Grand National race 10 of 1951 at Columbus Speedway, Columbus, GA in the #91 General Auto Sales (Ted Chester) 51 Oldsmobile Junior Johnson wins the NASCAR Grand National race 19 of 1955 at Lincoln Speedway, New Oxford, PA in the #55 B & L Motors (Jim Lowe / Carl Beckham)55 Oldsmobile Ralph Moody NASCAR Grand National race 25 of 1956 at Memphis-Arkansas Speedway, LeHi, AR in the #12 DePaolo Engineering (Pete DePaolo) 56 Ford Rex White wins the 1961 Myers Brothers 200 at Bowman Gray Stadium, Winston-Salem, NC in the #4 White-Clements (Rex White) 60 Chevrolet Fred Lorenzen wins the 1962 Atlanta 500 in the #28 LaFayette (Holman-Moody) 62 Ford Bobby Allison wins the NASCAR Grand National race 24 of 1967 at Fairgrounds Raceway, Birmingham, AL in the #6 Cotton Owens67 Dodge Richard Petty wins the 1973 Alamo 500 in the #43 STP (Petty Enterprises) 73 Dodge Bobby Allison wins the 1979 NAPA Riverside 400 in the #15 Hodgdon/Moore (Bud Moore) Ford Cale Yarborough wins the 1984 Van Scoy Diamond Mine 500 at Long Pond PA in the #28 Hardees (Harry Ranier) Chevrolet Rusty Wallace wins the 1990 Banquet Frozen Foods 300 in the #27 Miller Genuine Draft (Raymond Beadle) Pontiac Jeff Gordon wins the 2001 Kmart 400 in the #24 DuPont Automotive (Rick Hendrick) Chevrolet Jeff Gordon wins the 2007 Pocono 500 in the #24 DuPont (Rick Hendrick) Chevrolet Joey Logano wins the 2012 Pocono 400 Presented by #NASCAR at Pocono in the #20 The Home Depot (Joe Gibbs)Toyota
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