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Philip Cade was an amateur race car driver from the United States. He entered one Formula One Grand Prix (USA 1959) with a privately-entered Maserati 250F, but failed to start due to engine problems.
Phil Cade died August 28, 2001 in Winchester, Massachusetts.
Dennis Taylor was born in Sidcup, Kent, England. As a racing driver, he entered one single championship event, the 1959 British Grand Prix driving his Formula 2 Lotus 12 but he failed to qualify.
He was killed in a minor race at Monte Carlo on June 2, 1962.
Robert McGregor Innes Ireland was a Scottish military officer, engineer, and motor racing driver. Ireland's first serious year of auto racing was 1957, by which time he was running a small engineering firm in Surrey. Ireland made his debut for Team Lotus in 1959. In 1960 he won three non-championship Formula One races and finished fourth in the World Drivers Championship. One year later he was sacked after giving up his car to rival Stirling Moss and never had the car to achieve anything any more in F1.
Ireland died of Cancer at the age of 63.
Hans Binder was born in Zell am Ziller, Innsbruck, Austria. He is a former Formula One driver for Ensign, Wolf, Surtees and ATS teams. He was unable to score any points from his 15 GP starts.
Driving an Osella in the Canadian Grand Prix at Montreal, the Italian crashed into the back of a stationary Didier Pironi on the grid at the start of the race. Rescue workers were quickly on the scene but his injuries proved too severe. Paletti died quickly after arriving at the hospital.
Yearly edition of the Le Mans 24 hours race, the most popular prototype race in the world.
www.lemans.org/24heuresdumans/
New Zealander Denis Clive "Denny" Hulme was the 1967 Formula One World Champion for the Brabham team. He also was a double Can-Am champion.
Denny died on 4 October 1992 of a heart attack whilst driving a BMW M3 during the Bathurst 1000.
Nico Rosberg is the son of 1982 F1 champion Keke Rosberg and was born in Wiesbaden, Germany.
The younger brother of Michael Schumacher was born in Hürth-Hermülheim.
He is an F1 driver since 1997 when he joined B&H Jordan.
Daniel Ricciardo is an Australian racecar driver, the 2009 champion of the British Formula Three Championship.
He entered F1 as the test and reserve driver of Toro Rosso, before driving 3 years for them. He then went on to Red Bull Racing to race alongside Sebastian Vettel.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Ricciardo
Sebastian Vettel was born on July 3, 1987 in Heppenheim, Germany. He made his debut as third driver for the BMW Sauber F1 Team during the 2006 Turkish GP. Vettel is the youngest F1 driver ever to drive at a GP meeting at 19 years and 53 days.
Sakon Yamamoto was born on July 9, 1982 in Toyohashi, Japan. He made his F1 debut for the Super Aguri F1 Team during the 2006 German Grand Prix after having driven a few tests with the team on the friday of the raceweekends.