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Hulme can still deliver

16. Feb 2023 
by Ziv Knoll
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The Argentinian Formula One Grand Prix was held at Buenos Aires on 13 January 1974 and was the first of 15 races of the 1974 F1 season. Veteran Denny Hulme (38) won the race in his McLaren M23-Cosworth, after he started from tenth position.

Between his debut at Monaco in 1965 and his final race in the 1974 US Grand Prix, Hulme started 112 Grand Prix, resulting in eight victories and 33 podiums. He won the 1967 World Drivers’ Championship for the Brabham team and also finished third in the overall standing in 1968 and 1972.

A fantastic finisher, Hulme nicknamed ‘The Bear’, because of his “gruff nature” and big heart, won at least one F1 race each year, since his first F1 victory at the 1967 Monaco Grand Prix in his Brabham-Repco BT20.

Picture below: Podium celebrations for Ferrari team mates, Clay Regazzoni and Niki Lauda, surrounding the winner Denny Hulme, who enjoys the eighth and what turns out to be, the last victory of his Formula One career, also as of 2023, the last for a New Zealand driver.

For Niki Lauda, a former BRM driver, it is the first Grand Prix start as a Scuderia Ferrari driver, and the first podium finish of his career, and for Ferrari, it is the first (double) podium, after a catastrophic 1973, that netted no podiums at all.

 

 

Source: DR

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