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Anthony West (motorcycle racer)	Following the retirement of Olivier Jacque in June 2007, West was offered the position to race with the Kawasaki Racing Team in MotoGP and aboard the Ninja ZX-RR for the remainder of the season, buying out his contract with Yamaha.
Juan Manuel Fangio	At the end of the second successful season (which was overshadowed by the 1955 Le Mans disaster in which more than 80 spectators were killed, an accident which happened right in front of and nearly killed him) Mercedes withdrew from racing and after 4 attempts, Fangio never raced at Le Mans again.
Maxi Jazz	Maxi founded Maxi Jazz Racing in 2000 when he asked Rae Claydon to enter him in the Ford Fiesta Championship for the 2000 season but was only able to race occasionally due to his musical obligations.
Jack Brabham	He bought and modified a series of racing cars from the Cooper Car Company, a prolific British constructor, and from 1953 concentrated on this form of racing, in which drivers compete on closed tarmac circuits.
Michael Schumacher	At the 2011 Wroom meeting in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy, Fernando Alonso, the second most successful Formula One driver still racing, said of Schumacher :'' He will be always super class ; if the car is right, he will be a contender that we will fear most.''
Matthew Wilson	In September 2008, Wilson took part in the Colin McRae Forest Stages Rally, a round of the Scottish Rally Championship centred in Perth, Scotland.
Tony Pond	In 1981 he won the Radio 5 Rally outright against stiff competition like Geoff Mortimer in a Chevrolet Chevair and Jan Hettema, a double-Springbok, in a Toyota Corolla.
Karl Kling	Called up to the revived Mercedes Grand Prix squad in 1954 he finished less than one second behind the legendary Juan Manuel Fangio on his emercedesbenz.
Zsolt Baumgartner	In March 2007 he was confirmed as the test and reserve driver for Minardi Team USA, former boss Paul Stoddart's recently acquired Champ Car World Series team.
Louis Rosier	Rosier won the 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans in a blue Talbot.
Ross Dunkerton	He competed in the 2009 Otago Rally of New Zealand in his newly purchased MK II BDA Ford Escort rally car.
Nigel Mansell	He has since competed in additional sports car races with his sons, Leo and Greg, including the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Warren Hughes	Hughes was included on the official Le Mans Prototype (LMP) reserve list for the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans, driving a Lola B12/80 - Judd entered by HVM Status GP.
Luca Badoer	At the end of 2010, Badoer retired from Ferrari as test driver and was replaced by Jules Bianchi.
Jenson Button	Button had signed a pre-contract to drive for Williams in 2006, but he now believed his prospects would be better at BAR, and that his Williams contract was not binding.
Rhys Lloyd (cyclist)	2012 saw Lloyd's return to racing with the Metaltek-Scott cycle team.
Robert Peverell Hichens	With assistance from Aston Martin he entered the car for the 1937 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Mortimer Morris-Goodall as his co-driver.
Frank Biela	thumb | left | Biela driving an 2006 Le Mans 24 Hours.
Mike Conway	He remained in the series for 2008, having signed for the Trident Racing team, after testing for several other teams crash.
George Abecassis	Building on his pre-war association with the Alta marque, Abecassis and HWM assisted in the development of the Alta GP car, In 1956 Heath was killed in an accident in the Mille Miglia and Abecassis retired from racing, turning his attention to running the HWM operations.
Jamie Campbell-Walter	However, even though he did perform one test in a British Formula Three car, he was unable to find the funding necessary and did only 5 races for James Crofts Racing in the 1996 TVR Tuscan Challenge.
Jody Scheckter	A seventh-place finish with the team in 1978 followed and he left the team after the season to join Ferrari to partner Gilles Villeneuve in the team's ground effect 312T4 car.
Pedro Rodr?guez (racing driver)	Along with Jo Siffert, he was considered the bravest driver in motorsport, an example of this being the two touching through the then-very narrow and very dangerous Eau Rouge corner in the rain in their 917s at the start of the 1970 1000km of Spa-Francorchamps.
Otto Frank Graven	In January 2012, Graven was invited down to Tygerberg Raceway by local track owner to try his hand at an American V8 Late Model, Car No. 27 is one of only 11 cars in South Africa at the moment, Otto purchsed the car after his first race and to date still participates in the Late Model Series.
Rubens Barrichello	Despite this, Honda confirmed on 19 July 2007, that Barrichello would remain with the team as a race driver for the season.
C?sar Ramos	In June 2012 the New Zealand Lotus Team driver Richie Stanaway crashed heavily during a race at Spa Francorchamps and Ramos has taken his race seat until Stanaway's recovery is complete.
John Harvey (racing driver)	1980 Peter Brock took over the Holden Dealer Team, deciding John Harvey would not contest the ATCC races and contest only the endurance races at the end of the year.
Rubens Barrichello	On 1 March 2012 Barrichello joined KV Racing Technology for the 2012 season, to drive the team's number eight entry alongside Kanaan and E. J. Viso, sponsored by Brazilian construction company Embrase.
Matt Neal	He won the Total Cup for drivers without manufacturer support in 1993, before joining Mazda for a season cut short by a huge crash in round five at Silverstone.
Jean-Louis Schlesser	His last season in WSC was 1991 during which he raced alongside Michael Schumacher in the Sauber-Mercedes outfit.
Esteban Tuero	He was linked with a pay-drivers seat in the CART series for 2002, but it never happened.
Jason Bargwanna	On 27 January 2011, it was announced that he would drive the second Brad Jones Racing Commodore alongside his junior open-wheel rival, Jason Bright.
Owen Maddock	In addition to providing detailing for McLaren's 1964 Tasman Series Cooper T70 cars, Maddock was heavily involved in the design of the first true McLaren racing car : the McLaren M1A sports car of 1964.
John Hopkins (motorcycle racer)	Continuing with Rizla Suzuki, Hopkins set near-lap-record times aboard the new 800 cc motorcycle, and was labeled the dark horse by Colin Edwards.
Charles Pic	2012 United States Grand Prix | 2012 US Grand Prix During the test, several news sources reported that Pic had agreed a deal to race with the team in the 2012 season.
Alan Jones (racing driver)	In August 1985, one month before his return to Formula One at the Italian Grand Prix, Jones' association with Team Haas owner Carl Haas saw him used as a substitute for injured Newman/Haas Racing driver (and World F1 Champion) Mario Andretti in a Champ Car World Series race at Road America in Wisconsin.
Rudolf Caracciola	He was invited to participate in the 1946 Indianapolis 500, and originally intended to drive one of the W165s, but was unable to have them released in time.
Graham McRae	After writing off the GM2 in practice for the Oran Park, Tasman round at the start of 1975, McRae contested the US F5000 National Travellers Cheque series, in a Lola T332 which showed promise in the heats, finishing 4th behind J. P Jarier at Watkins Glen and 2nd in a heat at Laguna Seca to Al Unser, ahead of Warwick Brown and qualifying 8th at Long Beach, but never finished better than 8th in the main race during the series.
Jo Siffert	In addition, Siffert was chosen by Porsche to help launch its CanAm development program, driving a Porsche 917 PA spyder in 1969 and finishing fourth in the championship despite few entries.
Richard Attwood	He shared a GT40 with Jo Schlesser in the 1964 24 Hours of Le Mans, but was forced to retire due to the car catching fire.
Marko Asmer	On the 8th April 2010 Toivo Asmer, the father of Marko Asmer, announced that Marko had ended his career in motorsport he had no race seat or test/reserve driver role for the 2010 season, and lack of funding meant that his son's career was finished.
Bob Bondurant	In 1963 he became a member of Carroll Shelby's Ford Cobra team, winning his first race at the Continental Divide Raceway in Colorado, followed by an overall win at the LA Times Grand Prix GT race at Riverside in October 1963.
Nick Heidfeld	He was also a member of the Mercedes squad that raced at the 1999 24 Hours of Le Mans, but the team withdrew after the Mercedes-Benz CLR back-flipped on the Mulsanne straight while Mark Webber and Peter Dumbreck were driving.
Ivan Capelli	In 1988 Capelli had a new weapon, a March chassis designed by Adrian Newey (later famed as a designer at Williams, McLaren and Red Bull) combined with a Judd V8 engine (derived from the Brabham-Honda CART engine and the Judd/Honda F3000 unit).
Eliseo Salazar	In February he signed a pre-contract with Jean-Louis Schlesser to drive one of his buggies at the 2008 Dakar Rally, but he could not get a deal with a sponsor and that year's running of the Dakar Rally was cancelled anyway.
David Russell (racing driver)	Staying with MW Motorsport in 2011, Russell again finished third, this time behind Andrew Thompson and Jack Perkins.
Mark Larkham	Larkham was hired by Peter Brock's Advantage Racing for the 1989 Australian Touring Car endurance races and finished 7th in the 1989 Sandown 500.
Allan Moffat	1986 was notable in that Moffat had joined longtime rival and friend Peter Brock and the Holden Dealer Team.
Walt Hansgen	Hansgen was killed when he crashed a 7-liter Holman & Moody Ford GT 40 Mk2 sports car while driving in the rain during the Le Mans tests on April 3, 1966.''
Shelley Rudman	Rudman has been supported by Bromley Technologies since 2006 who provide her with a full race sled package and support throughout the season.
Jason Plato	As a result of this, the championship rules were changed to reversing the top 10 of the race 3 grid, somewhat scuppering this tactic, and the pace of Matt Neal's Team Dynamics Honda and Yvan Muller's Vauxhall left him unable to challenge for a second title in 2005.
Gerhard Berger	He won the 1985 Spa 24 Hours partnering Italian touring car ace Roberto Ravaglia and fellow Formula One driver, Marc Surer of Switzerland.
Gilles Panizzi	In 2004, Mitsubishi Motorsports recruited Gilles and his co-driver and brother, Hervé, to lead the company's charge back in the World Rally Championship.
Scott Tucker (racing driver)	His team finished 13 in LMP2 during the 2013 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Damon Hill	Hill has raced both cars and motorcycles at the Goodwood Festival of Speed and in 2005 he tested the new GP2 Series car.
Mark Donohue	1968 would be a banner year for Donohue in the Trans-Am series, as he successfully defended his 12 Hours of Sebring victory by partnering with Craig Fisher and driving his Penske Chevrolet Camaro to victory.
James Grunwell	In early 2003, James entered his first official race where the Champion Racing Team was formed under the support of Champion Ferodo.
Cameron McConville	The following year, McConville was lured to Kees and Paul Weel's Supercheap Auto Racing outfit to pair with Greg Murphy after the retirement of Paul Weel in 2005.
Harry Firth	The first nine finishers in the race all drove the famed Cooper S. 1967 saw Firth notch up his last victory as a driver in the annual 500 mile race at Bathurst, winning the 1967 Gallaher 500 with a young Fred Gibson in a Ford XR Falcon GT, the first Australian made Ford Falcon to use a V8 engine.
Rubens Barrichello	Barrichello's relationship with team owner Eddie Jordan soured during 1996, and at the end of the year, after being linked to strong teams, he left for the newly formed Stewart Grand Prix.
Spencer Pumpelly	At the end of 2006 Spencer was brought in to help Andy Lally and Marc Bunting secure the Grand-Am Rolex GT championship in the final 9 hour race at Miller Motorsports Park.
Tazio Nuvolari	For 1931, he decided to concentrate fully on racing cars and agreed to race for Alfa Romeo's factory team, Alfa Corse.
George Fury	He then joined former Nissan team mate Seton for the 1990 Australian Endurance Championship, where Fury and Seton won the 1990 Sandown 500 in a Ford Sierra RS500.
Kazuyoshi Hoshino	Hoshino retired from racing in 2002 and now continues to run his own Super GT team and his own Nissan specialised aftermarket parts company, Impul.
Ryan Farquhar	On 28 April 2006, Ryan signed a new deal to ride with the factory TAS Suzuki Racing Team.
Ryan Hunter-Reay	In 2003 Hunter-Reay joined the Champ Car World Series, driving for the first-year low-budget American Spirit Team Johansson.
Gian Paolo Montali	In 1998 he was attracted by another ambitious project : to take the reins of the newly formed team of Rome, deploying famous but aging champions like Andrea Gardini or Marco Bracci, and try to win something after a devoid of victories lasting twenty years.
Shane Price	In 2008 he was chosen by Holden as one of the drivers for the 2008 WPS Bathurst 12 Hour in a Holden Commodore Sportswagon although a result was not forthcoming as the car struggled with brake problems.
Erik Buell	Using his connections at Harley-Davidson, he acquired a sizeable cache of unused XR1000 racing engines, the powerplant of a model he had ridden to a podium finish at the 1983 Road America Battle of the Twins National, so he had confidence in this engine's potential in the sport market.
John Woolfe	Woolfe was dissatisfied with the reliability of the Chevron-Repco, and opted to buy a significantly more powerful Porsche 917 for the 1969 event.
Satoru Nakajima	Lotus 101 from at the -LSB- -LSB- 2011 Japanese Grand Prix. -RSB- -RSB-
G?nter Klass	Klass raced twice more for Porsche, in major races Nürburgring and Le Mans, at the latter of which Klass and Rolf Stommelen won the 2000 cc sports car class.
Jason Plato	For 2010 RML became an official Chevrolet manufacturer team, racing the Cruze model that races in the World Touring Car Championship, with Plato as lead driver.
Franco Bordoni	During 1955 he was offered to drive for the works Maserati team ; Officine Alfieri Maserati, and got the chance to race a number of different models.
Peter McLeod	Peter McLeod continued to race his Slick 50 RX-7 in the 1985 Australian GT Championship.
Steve Soper	By 2000, Soper fell out of favour with Gerhard Berger, who was in charge of BMW's motorsport operations and retired from racing as he was solely interested in racing BMWs and acquired a BMW dealership in Lincoln.
Paul Dumbrell	At the end of 1998 he entered his first production car race, the GT Production three-hour at Bathurst in a Subaru WRX, but his race ended with mechanical failure.
Zsolt Baumgartner	In 2008 Baumgartner became the test driver for team Tottenham Hotspur F. C. in Superleague Formula.
Dan Gurney	At the 1968 German Grand Prix he became the first driver ever to use a full face helmet in Grand Prix racing.
Dean Ellison	In 2005 he took over his brother's former ride in the Jentin Racing Yamaha BSB team, without the same success.
Simon Taylor (journalist)	He has a small collection of classic cars and competes regularly in historic motor sport with his unique 1950 HWM sports-racing car The Stovebolt Special.
Otto Merz	His so-called finest hour came by winning the 1927 German Grand Prix at the Nürburgring at the wheel of Mercedes-Benz S sports car, beating his team mate Christian Werner by three minutes at the finish line.
Damon Hill	When Mansell's team-mate Riccardo Patrese left Williams to drive for Benetton in 1993, Hill was unexpectedly promoted to the race team alongside triple world champion Alain Prost ahead of more experienced candidates such as Martin Brundle and Mika Häkkinen.
Markus Winkelhock	Markus Winkelhock (born June 13, 1980 in Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany) is a German racing driver, who has taken part in one Formula One Grand Prix, which he briefly led.
Liz Halliday	In 2005, Halliday made her 24 Hours of Le Mans debut in the LMP2 class, and was leading the class until she was forced to retire eleven hours into the race due to engine problems.
L?szl? Hartmann	For 1935 Hartmann decided to switch his allegiance to the Italian manufacturer Maserati and replaced his Bugattis with a Maserati 8CM, that he painted in the national red, white and green racing colours of Hungary.
Jeff Smith (racing driver)	In 2012 he raced an NGTC Honda Civic for Pirtek Racing.
V. R. Naren Kumar	Tuned by ace tuner and rallyist N. Leela Krishnan, Naren actually joined the second rally in the season and easily winning the 2010 title, thus making him the most successful Four Wheeler Rally champion in India.
Scott Tucker (racing driver)	Tucker competed in the American Le Mans Series in 2010 alongside his campaign in the Rolex Sports Car Series, this time entered in the spec racing Le Mans Prototype Challenge (LMPC) class.
Bill Patterson (racing driver)	In the scorching heat of a Western Australian summer in 1957 saw Patterson step into Lex Davison's Ferrari 625 F1 as a relief driver, working together in the same car to defeat Stan Jones to win the Australian Grand Prix.
Andy Boss	In 1994 Boss also teamed with his brother in the 12 Hours of Sebring driving Bob Leitzinger's factory backed Nissan 240SX but the car suffered from mechanical trouble while leading the GTU class.
Romain Grosjean	Lotus (2012 -- present) Lotus F1 Team | Lotus at the -LSB- -LSB- 2012 Malaysian Grand Prix. -RSB- -RSB-
Pete Brock	In the 1952 race, Phil Hill made a lasting impression on Brock, as he recalls ; `` Phil Hill was driving an XK-120 and I was hooked for life.
Arthur Pic	Pic remains in the Series for a third year in 2013, joining new Spanish squad AV Formula -- owned by former single-seater racer Adrian Valles - and highly respected engineer Philippe Gautheron.
Bernard Rubin	In 1933 they shared the wheel of an MG K3 in the famed Mille Miglia race and won their class before Birkin raced Rubin's Alfa Romeo with George Eyston and Whitney Straight.
Ulrich W. Schiefer	In parallel he was overall project manager of the BMW racing program at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 1999.
Gordon Shedden	Shedden remained with Honda for the 2011 season with the Honda Civic now powered by an NGTC turbocharged engine.
Greg Murphy	2013 saw Murphy return to Holden Racing Team on a part-time basis, co-driving with Car # 22 driver James Courtney in the endurance events.
David Reynolds (racing driver)	With Team Sonic not yet ready to step into the Fujitsu V8 Supercar Series, Reynolds needed a new team for 2008.
Erkut K?z?l?rmak	His connections with the series and the Triple 8 Race Engineering company, increased in 2006, with Erkut becoming the first Turkish driver to compete in the BTCC when he raced at Croft in a BTC-T Vauxhall Astra Sport Hatch, converted from one of the team's show cars.