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Trumpeter and racing driver

11. Aug 2023 
by Ziv Knoll
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Johnny Claes, a jazz trumpeter and racing driver from Belgium but born in London, started 23 Formula One Grand Prix, without great success, but finished 7th at the 1950 Monaco Grand Prix (picture-above) in his own Écurie Nationale Belge Talbot-Lagot T26C. A two-time winner of the gruelling Liège-Rome-Liège road rallye, he also finished third overall at Le Mans in 1955, in a D-Type Jaguar.

Source: DR

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