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“Stockbroker Special”

27. May 2023 
by Ziv Knoll
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Mike Beuttler (13 April 1940 – 29 December 1988), was a British Formula One driver who raced privately entered March cars. He was born in Cairo (Egypt), the son of a Colonel in the British Army.

He was a talented Formula 3 driver in the late 60s, progressed in Formula 2 and then entered Formula One in 1971. The finance came from a group of stockbrokers friends from whom the team took his name – Clarke-Mordaunt-Guthrie-Durlacher Racing. This approach earned his car the nickname of the “Stockbroker Special”.

While Beuttler did not achieve a point-scoring finish during his Formula One career, remember only the first six scored points at the time, he did achieve five top-ten finishes in the 28 races in which he competed.

Picture above: Mike Beuttler, pushing his March 731 during qualifying for the 1973 Monaco Grand Prix 1973.

When his backers suffered amid the 1973 oil crisis, Beuttler retired from racing the following year after competing in the 1000km of Brands Hatch.

Openly gay at a time when that was a hard thing to be, especially for a Formula One driver, he sadly died from aids in 1988, aged 48.

Source: DR

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