Welcome to Wednesday’s edition of the RaceFans round-up.
Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to Oskar!
On this day in motorsport
- Born on this day in 1937: Mark Donohue, who finished on the podium in his grand prix debut in 1971, but died four years later after a high-speed crash in practice at the Osterreichring
- Born on this day in 1962: Volker Weidler, who never qualified in his 10 attempts with Rial in 1989, then shared victory at the 1991 Le Mans 24 Hours with Johnny Herbert and Bertrand Gachot in their rotary-engined Mazda 787B
- Born on this day in 1964: Alex Caffi, who raced in F1 between 1986 and 1991, peaking with fourth at Monaco in 1989 for Scuderia Italia
- Born on this day in 1982: Timo Glock, who raced in F1 for Toyota and scored a pair of second places, then was a race-winner in the DTM for BMW and now races sports cars
- 20 years ago today Giancarlo Fisichella put his Renault on pole position for the Malaysian Grand Prix ahead of Jenson Button’s Honda
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