Welcome to Thursday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Dave and Daniel Martinez!
On this day in motorsport
- Born on this day in 1952: Piercarlo Ghinzani, who entered 111 races in the eighties but failed to qualify or pre-qualify for 32 of them. He achieved a best of fifth for Osella in the 1984 Detroit Grand Prix
- 70 years ago today Juan Manuel Fangio won one of the hottest F1 races ever, single-handedly bringing his Mercedes home first at Buenos Aires. Other drivers, including his team mate Stirling Moss, had to stop due to the heat
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