Tony Maggs

Anthony Francis O'Connell Maggs (9 February 1937 – 2 June 2009) was a South African racing driver, who competed in Formula One from Template:F1 to Template:F1.

Maggs participated in 27 World Championship Grands Prix, debuting at the 1961 British Grand Prix. He achieved three podiums, and scored a total of 26 championship points. He was the first South African to take part in a Formula One Grand Prix.

Life and career

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Maggs following Phil Hill at the 1962 Dutch Grand Prix

Anthony Francis O'Connell Maggs was born on 9 February 1937 in Pretoria, Transvaal, Union of South Africa.<ref name="ReferenceB">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The son of a wealthy farmer and businessman, Tony Maggs was part of Ken Tyrrell's Formula Junior, Cooper-BMC team in 1961 and shared the European Championship with Jo Siffert.<ref name="ReferenceA"/> He was invited into the Cooper Formula One team for 1962–1963, finishing second in the French Grand Prix both years, but was dropped at the end of 1963.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref><ref>Biodata</ref>

Maggs then moved to Scuderia Centro Sud for 1964 and despite the fact that their BRM P57s were not current machinery achieved two points finishes out of three race starts.<ref name="ReferenceA">Template:Cite book</ref> He also returned to Formula Two with an MRP Lola and with David Piper won the Kyalami 9 Hours race in the latter's Ferrari GTO.<ref name ="ReferenceA"/>

In 1965, Maggs raced only once in Formula One, for Reg Parnell Racing, in the South African Grand Prix at East London but continued with success in both Formula Two and sports cars.<ref name ="ReferenceA"/> However, in a national race at Pietermaritzburg he crashed his Brabham and a young spectator standing in a restricted area was hit and killed. Maggs immediately retired from motor sport to concentrate on his business interests.<ref name ="ReferenceA"/>

Maggs died on 2 June 2009, from cancer.<ref name ="ReferenceB"/>

Complete Formula One World Championship results

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Year	Entrant	Chassis	Engine	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	WDC	Points
1961	Louise Bryden-Brown	Lotus 18	Climax Straight-4	MON	NED	BEL	FRA	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA	USA			NC	0
1962	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T55	Climax Straight-4	NED Template:Small	MON Template:Small				GER Template:Small					7th	13
		Cooper T60	Climax V8			BEL Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small		ITA Template:Small	USA Template:Small	RSA Template:Small
1963	Cooper Car Company	Cooper T66	Climax V8	MON Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	NED Template:Small	FRA Template:Small	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	ITA Template:Small	USA Template:Small	MEX Template:Small	RSA Template:Small	8th	9
1964	Scuderia Centro Sud	BRM P57	BRM V8	MON	NED Template:Small	BEL Template:Small	FRA	GBR Template:Small	GER Template:Small	AUT Template:Small	ITA	USA	MEX	12th	4
1965	Reg Parnell Racing	Lotus 25	BRM V8	RSA Template:Small	MON	BEL	FRA	GBR	NED	GER	ITA	USA	MEX	NC	0