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Happy birthday!
Happy birthday to El Gordo!
On this day in motorsport
- 82 today: Helmut Marko, who won the 1971 Le Mans 24 Hours in a Porsche shared with Gijs van Lennep and started nine grands prix but retired after being struck in the eye by a stone at Clermont-Ferrand in 1972, and lost the sight in it
- 50 years ago today Jochen Mass won the Spanish Grand Prix which was shortened after a crash killed five spectators. F1 never visited Montjuic Park again. Lella Lombardi became the only woman to score in a grand prix, taking half a point
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