What was the F1 news on your birthday?
Autosport November 5th, 1981 (click to enlarge)
By sheer coincidence a couple of days ago I came across the issue of Autosport that was printed on my own birthday: November 5th, 1981 (see picture).
This got me thinking – can we find out what the big F1 news was on the day (or week) of all our birthdays?
So, post your birth date in the comments below and I’ll do my best to rummage through the stacks of Autosports, Motorsports and other motor racing magazines I have piled up to find out what was going on in the F1 world on that day…
An Autosport cover without F1 on it would be unthinkable these days – but on November 5th, 1981 the lead story was the Ivory Coast rally.
But the Formula Ford Festival is mentioned at the bottom of the cover – it was won by Tommy Byrne, a rival of Ayrton Senna. Byrne went on to have a brief F1 career and you can read more of his story in the excellent book “Crashed and Byrned” which came out last year.
Autosport November 5th, 1981, page two (click to enlarge)
Reutemann started the 1982 season with Williams but left abruptly, leaving them with Rosberg, who went on to win the title. On the same page is a story about John Watson turning down a drive with the team for 1982 – Watson remained at Mclaren and fought Rosberg for the title until the final round.
In other F1 news that day, Riccardo Patrese was finally cleared of wrongdoing in the accident that had claimed Ronnie Peterson’s life at Monza in 1978. Race starter Gianni Restelli was also foung not guilty by a court in Milan.
What was the F1 news on your birthday?
Post your birth date below and we’ll see if F1 Fanatic readers can find out what the F1 news was on the day you were born.
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Brian Munene said on 5th August 2012, 0:52
28th September 1991
sozavele (@formula-1) said on 5th August 2012, 9:16
25th November 1997
David Knutson said on 13th August 2012, 0:13
My birthday is 13 August, 1953.
Jen Campbell (@12popsicles) said on 19th August 2012, 10:42
14 May 1989. I tend to get a Catalunya F1 race on my birthday.
Oh and i was born on mothers day here in australia. had to spoil mums lunch plans :D
SomersetRaceFan (@somersetracefan) said on 21st August 2012, 20:06
My birthday is November 5th 1969
Leonardo Antunes (@leonardo-antunes) said on 27th August 2012, 0:17
09 of January 1986
Cucamest (@kevincucamest) said on 27th August 2012, 12:20
February 2nd.
Michael Hu (@mjhu) said on 27th August 2012, 14:34
1st Jan 1990! Sounds a bit special?
Christos (@darkphobia) said on 2nd September 2012, 2:41
1st June 1991.
DominikWilde (@dominikwilde) said on 5th September 2012, 3:11
September 5th 1994 :) Anything interesting happen then?
TexAgF1 (@texagf1) said on 9th September 2012, 5:38
September 18, cant wait for austin!
louise.1987 (@louise-1987) said on 10th September 2012, 21:20
My Birthday is 25th December 1987 :) x
Dimitris 1395 (@dimitris-1395) said on 11th September 2012, 18:42
11th September. A lot of races in Monza happened that day and I can remember one at Spa
dot_com (@dot_com) said on 13th September 2012, 0:37
June 7, 1978
My 30th birthday was spent watching qualifiying with my best mate in Montreal – the next day we saw Robert Kubica win his first and only GP.
soundscape (@soundscape) said on 13th September 2012, 12:02
8th November 1984.