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There have been 25 Formula One drivers from South Africa, with 17 of them having started at least one Grand Prix, and only 4 of them having started more than four races. [ 2 ] [ 1 ] Jody Scheckter is by far the most prolific and successful South African driver, being the only one to have won a race.
This category includes all South African drivers who have participated in (or attempted to participate in): a Formula One race, or; an FIA World Championship race (not all of which were Formula One races).
Jody David Scheckter (/ ˈ ʃ ɛ k t ər /; born 29 January 1950) is a South African former racing driver and businessman, who competed in Formula One from 1972 to 1980.Scheckter won the Formula One World Drivers' Championship in 1979 with Ferrari, and remains the only African driver to have won either a Formula One Grand Prix or the World Drivers' Championship; he won 10 Grands Prix across ...
Charlton ended the South African Formula One Championship by winning the final race of the season, the Rand Spring Trophy at Kyalami on 4 October after the faster Scheckter retired with a driveshaft problem. Primarily owing to cost and dwindling grids, the Formula One championship was replaced at the end of the 1975 season with Formula Atlantic.
South African Formula One drivers (25 P) J. ... Pages in category "South African racing drivers" The following 63 pages are in this category, out of 63 total.
List of Formula One drivers. 35 languages. Asturianu; Azərbaycanca; ... Paddy Driver South Africa 1963, 1974: 0 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 Piero Drogo
Desiré Wilson (née Randall), born 26 November 1953, [1] [2] is a former racing driver from South Africa and one of only five women to have competed in Formula One. [3]: 62–68 Born in Brakpan, [2] she entered one Formula One World Championship Grand Prix in 1980 with a non-works RAM Racing-prepared Williams FW07, but failed to qualify. [4]
David William Charlton (27 October 1936 – 24 February 2013) was a racing driver from South Africa. [1]Charlton was born in Brotton, Yorkshire. [2] He participated in 13 World Championship Formula One Grands Prix, debuting on 1 January 1965.