Time to remember - Necrology 2005

An appallingly high number of car racing related people left this world in 2005. The following ones are only those that I am aware of (mainly from the USA, Great Britain & Germany). RIP.

January

05: Phil Harms (USA,66)					12: [url=http://pacificnwracinghistory.com/pikegreen]Pike Green[/url] (Can,81)

13: Bub Strickler (USA,66)				 21: Mike Bennion (GBr,62)

[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: Alain Peltier (Bel,[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR])				 [COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: Richard Simms (GBr,59)



February

05: John Zink (USA,76)					 07: Gaston Rahier (Bel,58) [COLOR=red]*[/COLOR]

11: Lotta Hellberg (Swe,34)				12: Maurice Trintignant (Fra,87)

14: Pauli Toivonen (Fin,75)				15: Jaap Luyendijk (Ned,c.82)

16: Russ Klar (USA,90)					 22: Willi Bartels (Ger,77)

26: Paul Sawyer (USA,88)				   [COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: Nigel Bigwood (GBr,50)



March

01: Eugênio Martins (Bra,72)			   03: Günter Murmann (Ger,51)

05: Ernie de Vos (Can,63)				  15: George Davis (USA,66)

16: John Tojeiro (GBr,c.81)				26: [url=http://www.500race.org/Men/Habin.htm]John Habin[/url] (GBr,89)

26: Archie Hyde (GBr,89)				   28: Pierre de Siebenthal (Sui,72)

31: Ed Leslie (USA,83)



April

03: Curly Boyd (USA,79)					05: Denny Duesenberg (USA,91)

07: Cliff Allison (GBr,73)				 15: Art Cross (USA,87)

16: Tomáš Vojtĕch (Cze,31)				 17: Jack Early (USA,77)

21: Gerry Marshall (GBr,63)				25: John Love (Zim,80)



May 

01: [URL=http://www.barnsleytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=86&articleid=1035553]Derek Cook[/URL] (GBr,c.58)				  08: A.J. Shepherd (USA,78)

08: Nicolás Vuyovich (Arg,23)			  1[COLOR=red]?[/COLOR]: Peter Stürtz (Ger,c.58)

23: Ernst Henne (Ger,101)				  26: Joe Lee Johnson (USA,75)

29: Günter Schmid (Ger,c.72)



June

01: John Laux (USA,83)					 03: Chris Nixon (GBr,c.67)

04: [url=http://www.donbarrow.co.uk/autobiography_intro.html]Jim Bullough[/url] (GBr,c.78)				08: [url=http://www.waldbauernverband.de/html/hoensbroech.html]Reinhart von und zu Hoensbroech[/url] (Ger,78)

13: Tom Clark (NZl,c.88)				   14: Dave Strickland (USA,67)

17: Helmer Carlsson (Swe,95)			   24: [url=http://www.prodigysatspeed.com/viewtopic.php?t=3426&sid=7dfff5abc28ebf9e8351ddbfd11bb309]Bob Shannon[/url] (USA,86)

[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: Salvatore Ronca (Ita,c.54)



July

09: Don Townsend (USA,70)				  11: Jésus Iglesias (Arg,83)

12: [url=http://www.brdc.co.uk/news.cfm/title/Ian%20Hardy%20Smith/flag/2/id/303]Ian Hardy Smith[/url] (GBr,c.77)			 14: Bill Murphy (USA,92) 

16: Berwyn Baxter (GBr,84)				 23: John Lupco (USA,42)

25: Marvin Fillip (USA,69)				 27: Bob Havemann (USA,75)

29: [URL=http://www.memorialobituaries.com/memorials/memorials.cgi?action=Obit&memid=153486&clientid=crown]Robert Bowes II[/URL] (USA,74)			   [COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: Gerry Kinnane (Irl,[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR])



August

04: Barry Jones (Aus,57)				   14: Coo Coo Marlin (USA,73)

15: David Williams (GBr,43)				16: Kevin Doty (USA,43)

[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: Plinio Rossetto (Arg,80)			   26: Michèle Dubosc (Fra,72)

26: Tonio Hildebrand (Ned,c.74)			28: Curt Lincoln (Fin,86)

29: Joe Epton (USA,85)					 31: Heinrich von der Mühle-Eckart (Ger,94)



September

05: Heinz Melkus (Ger,77)				  07: [url=http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/news/2005/09/17/db1702.xml]L.J.K.[/url] [url=http://www.nzmotorsport.co.nz/content/newsarticle.cfm?pLive&id=6025]Setright[/url] (GBr,74)

08: Topper Chassé (USA,77)				 18: Michael Park (GBr,39)

27: [url=http://www.racingwest.com/community/focus.php/Ed+Hale/]Ed Hale[/url] (USA,67)



October

01: Andrew Hedges (GBr,70)				 01: [url=http://www.steamcar.co.uk/Team_Inspiration/Ken_Norris_obituary.htm]Ken[/url] [url=http://www.landracing.com/news/kenorris.htm]Norris[/url] (GBr,83)

03: Ursula von Hanstein (Ger,89)		   03: Adrian Kidd (GBr,47)

04: Adrian Yates-Smith (GBr,60)			13: Wayne Weiler (USA,70)

16: Gughi Zanon (Ita,77)				   17: Julián Alfaro (Arg,28)

22: Dave Clapham (SAf,74)				  30: Roy Gillhamer (USA,81)				 

[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR]: António Barros (Por,[COLOR=red]??[/COLOR])



November

05: [url=http://www.legacy.com/Record-Bee/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=15651689]Clyde Palmer[/url] (USA,81)				  06: Don Brown (USA,68)

06: Dick Hutcherson (USA,73)			   07: Alec Stokes (GBr,c.80)

10: [url=http://sports.espn.go.com/rpm/news/story?series=nhra&id=2221423]Bruce Sarver[/url] (USA,43)				  17: Arthur Blank (Sui,c.72)

18: Jabby Crombac (Sui,76)				 19: [url=http://www.catchfence.com/html/2005/en112305.html]John Reiser[/url] (USA,67)

19: Jonathan Thompson (USA,70)			 21: [URL=http://www.legacy.com/TimesDispatch/LegacySubPage2.asp?Page=LifeStory&PersonId=15736096]Sonny Hutchins[/URL] (USA,76)

25: Richard Burns (GBr,34)				 25: [url=http://www.cottonowens.com/Ray_Nichels.html]Ray Nichels[/url] (USA,83)

26: Dick Northam (USA,79)				  29: Maurice Kraines (USA,84)



December

04: [url=http://www.ptreyeslight.com/stories/dec08_05/gambonini_obit.html]Alvin Gambonini[/url] (USA,83)			   10: Dizzy Addicott (GBr,c.80)

15: [url=http://www.nhra.com/apcm/templates/news_template.asp?articleid=9583&zoneid=8]Akton Miller[/url] (USA,85)				  16: [url=http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Affentranger]Hans Affentranger[/url] (Sui,88)

16: Sergey Romaschenko (Rus,18)			18: Keith Duckworth (GBr,72)

20: [url=http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/racing/12/24/bc.car.obit.carbone.ap/]Steve Carbone[/url] (USA,61)				 21: [url=http://www.autosport.at/article1495.html]Walter Schock[/url] (Ger,85)

31: [url=http://www.nhra.com/apcm/templates/news_template.asp?articleid=9677&zoneid=8]Reid Whisnant[/url] (USA,c.70)

* I know that Gaston Rahier mainly was a Moto Crosser but in 1987 he drove car # 40 at the Le Mans 24 h race.

A small analysis for statisticians:

Distribution according to
age („c.“ means I don’t know the exact birth date)

under 20: 1,	20-29:	2,	 30-39:	4,

40-49:	5,	50-59:	8,	 60-69:   14,

70-79:   35,	80-89:   30,	 90-99:	5, 

over 100: 1,	unknown:  3 (Barros, Kinnane, Peltier)

and nationality

USA		43,	Great Britain 24,	Germany	   10, 

Argentina   4,	Switzerland	4,	Belgium		2, 

Canada	  2,	Finland		2,	France		 2, 

Italy	   2,	Netherlands	2,	Sweden		 2, 

Australia   1,	Brazil		 1,	Czech Republic 1, 

Ireland	 1,	New Zealand	1,	Portugal	   1, 

Russia	  1,	South Africa   1,	Zimbabwe	   1

I’m afraid there were many more. For example I cannot imagine countries like France or Italy to be so fortunate having lost just two persons each (Trintignant, Dubosc; Ronca, Zanon).

Archie Butterworth b. 19th June 1912, d. 12th February 2005

Thank you for going to the trouble of putting this together. It is not the pleasantest of tasks, but is one that needs to be done.

Great Work

I don't have any dates for him and he seems to have slipped under TNF's radar, but rally driver David Siegle-Morris passed away last year as well. See Classic & Sports Car Feb 2006 p16.

Ian Gamble, 63 on August 31st

http://www.motorspor...3&FS=OBITUARIES

I don’t like to bring up a thread of my own (that has gone down to page 4).
But there are some more losses from 2005. The majority of the following were provided by Jim Thurman (thank you, Jim!), one stems from „Motorsport aktuell“ magazine, and one I found on the net by coincidence.

Jan 29: Earl Mosbach (USA,79)

[i]Feb 03: Julian Buesink (USA,79)[/i] [COLOR=red]is an ERROR [i](see post # 9)[/i][/COLOR]

Mar 29: [url=http://www.rochesterdandc.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050331/SPORTS/503310373/1007/SPORTS]Elmer Musclow[/url] (USA,80)

Apr 09: [url=http://www.scenedaily.com/stories/2005/04/18/pit_passes1.html]Cliff Timberman[/url] (USA,71)

Apr 12: [url=http://www.mobilespeedway.com/articles2005/041305.htm]Gene Tapia[/url] (USA,80)

May 10: [url=http://winfield.50megs.com/stearns_files/McKim/McKim.htm]Bob McKim[/url] (USA,88)

May 13: Ray Janelle (USA,86)

May 20: [url=http://www.phoeniciatimes.com/archivesOP/op6.9.05/newsbriefs.html]Larry Shurter[/url] (USA,87)

Jul 13: [url=http://www.mobilespeedway.com/articles2005/071905.htm]Armond Holley[/url] (USA,71)

Dec 23: Peter Linzen (Ger,c.61)

Sad news from southern Italy, three deaths for cancer:

- Mario Casciaro, very good sportscar and hillclimb driver from Calabria, died on May (or June, date unknown) 2005.

- Vincenzo Mirto-Randazzo, great Sicilian touring-cars and GT driver, 14 times Targa Florio starter from 1963 to 1977, died in the early days of January 2006.

- Francesco Scaramozzino, sportscar hillclimber from Calabria, father of Carmelo and Gianluca also sportscar drivers, died on 18 Jan. 2006.

Reinhard,

Please remove Julian Buesink from this list. My error. Bob Coolidge caught this one. I'm embarrassed that it slipped by me. The information I had came from an obituary that turned out (after more digging) to be his brother.

Apparently, Julian Buesink was born in 1910 and possibly died in 1998 (sorry, no dates or months). Please note that and make appropriate changes for your birthdate list.

Sorry for the error.

Originally posted by Jim Thurman
Reinhard,
Please remove Julian Buesink from this list [...] and make appropriate changes for your birthdate list.

Done!

Bertil Lundberg from Sweden died in May (I think - I'll try to find out) 2005 - at 89 years. He participated in the 1950 German GP with his own F2 car, the BLG 2000.
Lundberg was later a prominent figure in Swedish motorsport. He was the big introducer for karting (his sons raced against Ronnie Peterson) and he built the first go-kart-track in Sweden. Lundberg was also chairman in the Swedish autosport association for many years.

Bertil Lundberg passed away March 22nd 2005, a few months before his 90th birthday.